Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Dude Born Anew

Learning to Feel by N.R. Walker

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Short Version: Learning to Feel is a fairly traditional contemporary romance that passed the time, but N.R. Walker’s plotting choices struck me as a bit much. Long Version: In a moment of common sense and self-preservation, sad-sack Nathan leaves his job as an ER doctor in Boston, to take a role in rural Maine. It’s a contract position that he hopes will get his life on track, help him work less, and it includes free rent on a farmhouse. When Nathan arrives, he finds a […]

This book was SO MUCH FUN. I want to read it again.

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I started this book at lunch yesterday, got sixty pages in, and then read the rest of it in a frenzy as soon as I got home from work. I even forgot to eat dinner. Guys, I NEVER forget to eat dinner. I’m thinking about what I’m going to eat for dinner immediately after lunch is over. Sometimes lunch the day before. I mean, I did eventually remember to eat, but only after I finished the book around 8:30. Only the really good books make […]

Sweet and Funny People Falling in Love. Was That So Much to Ask?

The Weight of It All by N.R. Walker

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The Weight of It All was one of those quietly enjoyable reads that are hard to review. It was wonderfully simple and just plain nice. In this contemporary romance set in Sydney Australia, two sweet people fall in love in a funny and engaging romance short on drama and long on kindness. Freshly dumped and taking his ex’s parting salvo of “old and fat” to heart, Henry Beckett and picks himself up and ventures to the local gym to see what he can do about […]

Hockey Romance with Coaches in Love

Power Play by Avon Gale

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My quest for good romance continues with a book recommended to me on Pajiba my online home away from home. Max Ashford’s career in the NHL was cut short when a checking accident on the ice left him with compromised peripheral vision. Working on a career behind the bench, he joins head coach Misha Samarin with the Spartanburg Spitfires in South Carolina. It’s an ECHL team – meaning a double A hockey franchise that acts as a feeder to the minors and, with any luck […]

Not Your Usual Historical Romance

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This is a debut novel by the author, but it reads like one by a more seasoned writer. It’s a historical romance, however, this one explores the gay romance side of things.   I haven’t read much M/M romance, much less based in the Regency era, so I was interested to see how this would play out.  In that time period, gay sex was a well kept secret since the act was construed as sodomy and could be punishable by exile, prison or death.  You […]

“He uses invisible radiation to turn himself into an asshole.”

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The trouble with being a Courtney Milan Fan (with a capital F) is that you rate her romances on a scale that exists independently of all other romances. It would be a shifted bell curve, except that you don’t get to actually start her scale at 2 and end it in 6, so you have to pretend that it’s the same 1-5 as everyone else. What this means is that, when you’re grading on the CMS (Courtney Milan Scale) sometimes you like the book, but […]



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