Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“My Happily Ever After was a strand of strung-together happy-for-nows, extending back not to just a year ago, but to thirty years before.”

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Beach Read is an odd example of a charming romance that I liked a lot, even though I found that I didn’t much like the two main characters. Romance novelist January is reeling — her father died, her boyfriend broke up with her, and she found out (AT HER FATHER’S FUNERAL) that her parents’ marriage wasn’t the perfect love story that she always imagined. She has a book deadline coming up, but she has no ideas and nowhere to live, so she moves into her […]

This one is going in my top ten for 2020. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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I loved this. Right up front, though, this is a five star book for me, but probably won’t be for everyone. It just so happened to push quite a few of my personal buttons, and there were things in there that I always enjoy in stories that other people might find dull or uninteresting. First, the cover is a bit misleading, but it doesn’t matter. There’s no one sitting on beach towels relaxing and reading books in here. Not that kind of book, not those […]

Not as fluffy and carefree as the title and cover make it seem

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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#CBR12 Bingo: Pandemic (read what you want) Official book description: Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.   They’re polar opposites.   In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.   Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal […]

#CBR10 Bingo: Listicles – A Million Junes

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#CBR10Bingo: Listicles. From FYA’s “Swoony YA books for your next Beach Vacation” From Goodreads: Romeo and Juliet meets One Hundred Years of Solitude in Emily Henry’s brilliant follow-up to The Love That Split the World, about the daughter and son of two long-feuding families who fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about the strange magic and harrowing curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.  In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O’Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they […]



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