Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

a thousand apologies and what feels like a thousand reviews (through November 2023)

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Kindred by Octavia E Butler

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Hinumegin er mars by Sólrun Michelsen

Trust by Hernan Diaz

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones

The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones

In the Beginning was the Sea by Tomás González

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

The City & the City by China Miéville

A History of Burning by Janika Oza

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin

Passion Simple by Annie Ernaux

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller

The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

The Late Mrs. Willoughby by Claudia Gray

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Rivals by Katherine McGee

Reign by Katherine McGee

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

10 Things that Never Happened by Alexis Hall

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

A Dangerous Kind of Lady by Mia Vincy

A Little Life by Hanya Yanighara

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Starting Over Game by girl_with_kaleidoscope_eyes

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Edinburg by Alexander Chee CBR15: Sex True fact, when someone British asked me what I was reading I pronounced this “Edin-BERG” and to their credit they didn’t laugh but instead asked, with some horrified sincerity, if that’s how Americans say it. It’s not! At least, not on purpose. It’s just how can the English language claim to have been invented in a country that seems to not have grasped even a shred of understanding of how the various letters in it work? I digress. This is […]

Do you remember the 21st night of September?

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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“See You Yesterday” by Rachel Lynn Solomon is a fun, original take on the classic “Groundhog Day” narrative. The story follows Barrett Bloom, a college freshman who’s looking for a fresh start after an intense high school experience. However, things take a wild turn when she finds herself trapped in a time loop on the first day of school. Together with Miles, a fellow time-loop victim, she sets out to find a way out of the loop while navigating the ups and downs of their […]

“I can’t think of any other explanation for why he’s so combative at 8:47 in the morning. In this economy? Who has the energy?”

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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If you watched Palm Springs on Prime and want more, this is going to be your catnip. Plot: Barrett Bloom is starting university today, and thank god for that. High school was a nightmare, but this is her chance to reinvent herself as something other than an over eager student journalist who cost her school sport glory. Only she wakes up to the discovery that a friend who’d abandoned her over that story is her roommate, her professors seem unimpressed with her lack of preparation, […]

definitely an always-read author, in a chill way

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Are we in the Pacific Northwest? Are our leads Jewish? It must be a Rachel Lynn Solomon novel! I kindly jest, because I find Solomon a pretty engaging writer, especially when she’s writing about younger characters (Today Tonight Tomorrow remains my favorite, I think). This time, we tackle ones of literature/media’s timeless, repetitive tropes in a college setting… That’s right, what we have here is a garden variety time loop adventure. The negatives, to get out of the way out, are that the time loop-iness of […]

Weather Girl

Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Trigger warning: This book has a solid trigger before reading warning readers regarding depression and suicide.  Thought this was a solid romance though have to say that the initial crush/like that Ari has on Russ doesn’t really ring true. I wish that Solomon had explored more why Ari was so ready to open up to Russ but not to her former fiancée who complained about her wearing a false face about how happy she was. I never got the sense he didn’t love her or […]

“My parents’ sex talk was basically ‘This is a condom, always use one, any questions?'”

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Plot: Quinn and Tarek have been kind of friends for years. Their families have businesses that mean the two spend most weekend summers together (hers – wedding planning, his – catering). They have both also had kind of crushes on each other. The problem is that they are wildly incompatible. Quinn has grown beyond jaded after a lifetime watching weddings be planned and relationships unravel. Meanwhile, Tarek’s parents had a love story right out of a 90’s rom com, and he’s obsessed with having that […]



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