Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I don’t know what a newt is. It’s a lizard, right? I really don’t want to be a lizard.

The Kiss Curse (Graves Glen #2) by Erin Sterling

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Gwyn had no doubt that whoever he was, his ancestors had absolutely once stared down the business end of a guillotine. You didn’t get cheekbones like that without oppressing some peasants. ― Erin Sterling, The Kiss Curse CBR17 Bingo: Purple This story takes place one year after The Ex Hex. Gwynn is bored. Her shop, Something Wicked, is barely breaking even, she hasn’t had a relationship in over a year, and her cousin and best friend Vivi is disgustingly in love and unavailable for witchy shenanigans […]

Cozy Spooky Sexy Fun

The Ex Hex (Graves Glen #1) by Erin Sterling

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“Vivi, if we could actually place curses on people, that bitch who always gives me whole milk when I ask for soy at Coffee Cauldron would be a dead woman by now,” Gwyn said. ― Erin Sterling, The Ex Hex Goddess, we beseech you that this man shall never again darken Vivi’s door nor her vagina. ― Erin Sterling, The Ex Hex CBR17 Bingo: Diaspora Diaspora as the witches gather and settle all over the world. It’s a tale as old as time. A young […]

Beats a very low bar – barely

Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford Simak

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When I was complaining about old-school sci-fi written by old white men (darn you, library sci-fi book club!) a couple commenters suggested I try Clifford Simak. My mom had also recently suggested him, so when I found Enchanted Pilgrimage at a used bookstore, I figured it was a sign. Unfortunately, I didn’t love this one either. It had some lovely bits and passages, but overall it was very disjointed, with plot threads lost and picked up again (or not), characters doing stuff for no reason […]



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