Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A hockey romance with less hockey and more coping with grief

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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CBR16 Sweet Books: Exciting (I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time, and was VERY excited to get an ARC shortly before the release date. Nowhere Bingo: A book with multiple POVs This was an audio ARC from NetGalley. My opinions are my own.  When Aurora “Rory” Evans was a lonely teenager, she ran into a handsome Canadian hockey player while she was selling coffee at the Mall of America. She took his name and pretended to have an actual Canadian boyfriend, making […]

I may have inadvertently started a new holiday tradition

Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

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Last December I flew from California to Michigan for my sister’s nursing school graduation.  Shortly after arriving at the airport for my return trip it was announced my flight was delayed.  So I did the only sensible thing and perused the little bookshop for something to read.  I was in the mood for something light and if it was Christmassy, that was a bonus.  I settled on So This is Christmas by Jenny Holiday.  The book was exactly what I was looking for!  Due to […]

It’s beautiful because it’s melancholy. It’s a complicated kind of beauty.

Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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I am struggling with getting my review of Jenny Holiday’s Canadian Boyfriend right. I really enjoyed it. It’s a romance surfing on big waves of grief and trauma. For a big chunk of the book Mike and Aurora have a quasi employer/employee relationship that some people will, reasonably, consider a hard no. I want to put all this up front, because it’s important information for readers, and I don’t want my whole review to be about the things that might put a reader off of […]

CBR15 Bingo: Bodies Bodies

Three Little Words by Jenny Holiday

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3.5 stars CBR15 Bingo: Bodies Bodies (self-esteem issues, eating disorder) 15-word review: International supermodel Gia has an eating disorder, but eats when restaurant owner Bennet feeds her. Longer review: Gia Gallo is used to travelling in her job as a globe-trotting fashion model. Recently, she struggles with the fact that she doesn’t fit into the teeny tiny sizes of the clothes she’s supposed to model, and she’s not really sure if she’s not outgrown the whole industry, both in body size and motivation-wise. Having never […]

A romance I read back in March

It Takes Two by Jenny Holiday

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15-word review: Bridesmaid Wendy keeps hooking up with former crush Noah, who’s the brother of the bride. Wendy’s best friend Jane (from One and Only) is getting married, and she’s delighted to be asked to be the maid of honour. Unfortunately, the best man is the bride’s older brother, Noah, who Wendy nursed a crush on for pretty much her entire adolescence until he broke her heart by standing her up at the prom. She has spent most of her adult life going on strategic […]

Holiday tropes and enemies to geeky lovers makes for a fun read at Christmas

So this is Christmas by Jenny Holiday

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On Friday afternoon I stepped into the security line at the airport to look down at a message that just arrived on my phone, my flight had been delayed by an hour.  Now facing three hours at the airport instead of two, I went to the nearest store selling books.  While pondering what to get, I started putting titles and authors into Cannonball Read to see what others had to say.  Thus far no one has reviewed, So This is Christmas.  However, both Emmalita and Malin […]



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