Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You’re twenty-two, twenty-three, time is sort of infinite. It’s like a pool where you can’t touch the bottom.”

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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This was one of my favorite books of the year, so naturally I have waited until there is only one full day left in 2019 before writing my review. Evvie Drake is not going to be a five star book for everyone, but it hit so many of my buttons. I knew I was going to like it, but I don’t think I quite realized how much until I was already in it. Our main character is Eveleth “Evvie” Drake, whose husband dies on page […]

“He still woke up some days and believed for fifteen seconds or so that he had something to do, until he remembered he didn’t. The sixteenth second was a killer.”

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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CBR11 Bingo: #pajiba I hadn’t heard of this lovely book until Dustin wrote about it over the summer. And then I saw it EVERYWHERE. On every list. In every store. Every day on every social media platform. Apparently, I had to read it. I’m quite glad I did. Evvie Drake has been widowed for about a year. She has barely coped since her husband died — she doesn’t leave the house much, she doesn’t really socialize with anyone (ecxept for her best friend, Andy), and […]

“Therapy is like a toothbrush. You can’t really put it to use for anybody but yourself”

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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#CBR11 Bingo: Reader’s Choice (in place of Back to School) (would also work for a Pajiba or Listicle square, as well as Summer Read) Eveleth “Evvie” (rhymes with ‘chevy’) Drake has packed the car and is about to leave her husband when she gets a phone call that he’s been in a car accident. Before she can make it to the hospital, he is dead. About a year later, everyone thinks Evvie has kept to herself, isolated in her big house, because she’s overcome with grief. She […]



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