Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows

Shadows of Berlin by David R. Gillham

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A decade after World War 2, Rachel Perlman may have moved to New York City and gotten married, but she is still haunted by her experiences as a Jewish girl hiding in plain sight in Berlin and the death of her mother. Despite what the blurb led me to expect, this book is not a World War 2 novel – at least, not exactly. Though Rachel’s experiences in Berlin hang over the entirety of the story, we spend most our time with her grappling with […]

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 […]

The Further Chronicles of the Brown Sisters

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

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A library copy of Take a Hint, Dani Brown finally became available, so I was able to start on the next Brown Sisters book. I enjoyed it, though not as as much as the first one. Dani Brown is a PhD student with no love life, and she’s not looking for one. After some disastrous and very painful relationships, she has decided that she only kind of relationship she is looking for is friends with benefits. Recently that well has been dry, so she prays […]

Guru Possum

When in Doubt, Play Dead : Life Advice from an Unexpected Source by by Ally Burguieres

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Are you having a bad day? Had a bad year? Then get When in Doubt, Play Dead : Life Advice from an Unexpected Source by Ally Burguieres. This book has different sections and tells you WWAPD (What Would A Possum Do). And what would they do? Play dead. Let go. Sleep with whomever they want to. They don’t care what is in your pouch (unless it is snacks, then maybe share). Check on your friends. Know that you are never too large, little, old or […]

“Hannah, you are the only thing in a room that makes it possible to breathe.”

For Never & Always by Helena Greer

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When she was little, Hannah Rosenstein’s parents traveled all over the world, and the only place she ever felt safe and settled was at the Christmas tree farm owned by her father’s great-aunt Cass. At Carrigan’s Christmas Tree Farm, she would also get to spend time with Levi, whose parents were the cook and groundskeeper at Carrigan’s and who in practicality ran the farm for Cass. When Hannah got older, she persuaded her parents to let her go live at Carrigan’s so she could go […]

Institutionalized

Boodroot by Bill Loehfelm

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For the life of me, I will never understand why Bill Loehfelm isn’t a bigger name in crime fiction. I first came across his Staten Island trilogy by accident, having seen The Devil She Knows on some random list or another. There aren’t many crime novels set on the Island so I figured I’d try it. It was one of my favorite reads of the year. I didn’t know at the time that it was his third Staten Island-set book featuring characters that were loosely connected a […]



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