Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Nice People (Mostly) Being Nice To Each Other

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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Back in Yon Olden Dayes of TWoP, I used to waste far too much time reading recaps, and forums, and more recaps. I have to give credit to Miss Alli for helping me discover The Amazing Race, because the truth of the matter is that I started reading her recaps before I started watching the show. And here we are nigh on twenty years later, and in that time I befriended, dated, and married my now-husband, and every year we add two destinations to our […]

A fun, original contemporary romance

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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CBR12 Bingo: “I wish…” I first saw Evvie Drake Starts Over (2020) by Linda Holmes on the shelf at the library. I was intrigued. I’m a fan of good romance novels and this looked like one I’d enjoy. I’m also using this book for the Cannonball Bingo “I wish” category. Romance novels are wish fulfillment in writing. And I think it’d be nice to live in an idyllic Maine town and fall in love with a professional athlete. I did enjoy this novel. Evvie was a fun […]

Delightful Banter in Mid-Coastal Maine

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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Evvie Drake Starts Over is a delightful, witty, and charming book. I stayed up late at night to read it, which is the sign of a good read. My streak of reading romance novels continues, though this time I decided to read something from the modern era. Evvie Drake has lived in a small mid-coastal Maine town her whole life. She married her high school sweetheart, but the marriage is not a good one. In the opening pages, Evvie decides to leave her husband Tim. […]

“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 […]

Kissing book round up

Roomies by Christina Lauren

American Royals by Katharine McGee

Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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Ordered from meh to wow! (3 stars) Roomies by Christina Lauren So this was probably the first Christina Lauren that I didn’t particularly enjoy. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as good as the others I’ve been devouring this summer. A certain amount of disbelief must be suspended when reading book like this, so I didn’t mind the set up in the beginning — I just wasn’t all that wild about how it ended. “Is Jeff right? Am I unable to create anything because I see […]

“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 […]



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