Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You help me slay my dragons and I’ll help you slay yours.

The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon

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One of the things my favorite authors have in common is that they love their characters for who they are at any given minute of the story and not because they represent an idea, an architype, or a wish fulfilled. In The Dating Playbook, the second in the Boyfriend Project series, Farrah Rochon loves her characters.  She loves her three friends – Samiah, Taylor, and London. She loves Jamar. She lets them feel all their feelings, be indecisive, be sexy, be messy and always worthy […]

Titus smiled, “I met the woman I’m going to marry.”

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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I have been looking forward to Witch Please for months. I love Ann Aguirre’s books. She has gotten me through the last two years with some parts of my soul and sanity intact. On top of that already solid reason, Courtney Milan said she read Witch Please months ago and, well, the blurb is right there on the cover: “Sheer happiness in a book…”  How can you argue with that? You can’t. Fortunately, I got my hands on an arc and I have read it […]

I am a little obsessed with this loaf of bread

Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple by Dorie Greenspan

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I have been playing with Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple for a few months. I collect baking books and I have high expectations for Dorie Greenspan. Overall, I quite liked this book and there are four recipes in here that have become a part of my regular repertoire, which is a lot for an individual cookbook. My very very very very favorite recipe is the first recipe in the book – “The Daily Bread: White Bread Edition.” I first made it 4 months ago, […]

Angels of Punching You in the Face

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Earth’s crust and mantle have been peeled back by the Architects and shaped into a beautiful flower. A beautiful, uninhabitable flower. Maybe this is a reflection of my age, but I kept thinking about how clean spaceships were in science fiction when I started reading. The governments were huge global or galactic entities demonstrating how humans had unified, and often how they had integrated into a system of many alien species. There was an orderliness to science fiction worlds, even if the protagonists were rogues […]

Heist Romances

It Takes a Thief by Sloane Steele

Between Two Thieves by Sloane Steele

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In the Counterfeit Capers Series Sloane Steele is going for a feeling like the television show Leverage and as I had just finished binging through the original, I was in just the right mood for what Steele was after. Unfortunately for me these books didn’t quite hit the mark. The basic set-up is Jared and Mia, the children of two notorious conmen and thieves who got away with a Ponzi type scheme decide to use their abilities and access to make as right as they […]

“In any event,” Percy went on, “what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they’re utterly insufficient for my present circumstance.”

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 30/30 Thanks to Netgalley and Avon for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. For some reason I thought this was a f/f historical? Like, for a very long time. I requested it on Netgalley just to see if they would give it to me, and they did! And then when I got it I realized those weren’t ladies on the cover, but dudes, and this was about a highwayman and a lord falling in love! […]



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