Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This book hits differently when you’re going through it

You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms

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Whelp, this one hit home a bit more than I would have liked.  I picked this up on Audible last year or the year before (I don’t really remember) and decided to finally listen to it around this Thanksgiving.  The main story revolves around a family of siblings meeting every year for Thanksgiving, and we see three different years (I think they’re at least two or three years apart.)  The first year, the oldest brother is married with a child on the way.  The younger […]

Three books I loved and one I most certainly did not.

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

The Mall by Megan McCafferty

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More quick reviews as the 2020 deadline approaches…and yes, I’ll be including blurbs because I read some of these MONTHS ago. The books I loved: First off, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler. Blurb: Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets […]

Fiction Round Up

You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms

The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date #3) by Jasmine Guillory

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(4 stars) You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella by Kelly Harms I’ve found the Audible originals to be hit or miss (Scalzi’s The Dispatcher was probably the only other one I really liked) but they’re free and I like Kelly Harms, so I gave this one a shot. It was pretty good — sort of sappy, sort of cheesy, lots of good descriptions of food. So basically, like a Hallmark movie in an audiobook — which I do not intend to be an insult. […]

Why on earth don’t I take her calls?

You Can Thank Me Later by Kelly Harms

Climbing With Molly by William Finnegan

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Both of these are Audible Originals for the month of November, which tend to be novellas, short radio plays, or would-be podcasts, etc. This month I chose a Holiday novella by a writer I don’t know, but is a novelist, so I was curious what that would bring, and then a biographical piece by William Finnegan, the author of the memoir Barbarian Days, about growing up in surf culture, as well as being a respected journalist.   You Can Thank Me Later – Kelly Harms This […]

Could I have an assistant to manage dating for me, too?

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

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I picked this one up based on badkittyuno’s review.  All of those novels she mentioned (I downloaded two of them because they are also on Kindle Unlimited) sounded like the comfort food version of reading.  Sweet, hopeful, happy endings, not too challenging, and a pleasant way to spend an afternoon if ultimately forgettable. Three years ago, Amy Byler’s husband did not come home from a business trip to Hong Kong.  It would be one thing if he had left, but he also neglected to continue […]

CBR11Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane) + Two More

The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson

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The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane is definitely not the kind of book I normally read (Not My Wheelhouse!), despite the fact that, like SisterCoyote “I’m very much a book magpie” (love that!). The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane looks like something your mom would read at the beach. And while I have nothing against your mom, a story about two girls who win a contest that changes their lives forever and takes place somewhere called Christmas Cove, Maine would not normally be […]



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