Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Jumping on a Couple Bandwagons

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Attachments: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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I have a pretty lengthy TBR list from perusing CBR, and when some rough life stuff came up recently and I needed some light reading, I decided to try a few books that Cannonballers have recommended that I thought would fit the bill. I’d seen The Kiss Quotient reviewed several times, and I know Rainbow Rowell is a favorite around these parts. So, in the order I read them: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. First of all, hoo boy is there a lot of […]

A bit of a Carry On…

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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The premise of this book intrigued me with it being a full story set in a pseudo-Harry Potter world dreamed up to be a novel series in another book (Fangirl) whose protagonist wrote fan fiction. So it’s a fictionalisation of a book series that was Harry Potter with the numbers filed off. And our lead characters here are Harry & Draco archetypes (called Simon and Baz) with the idea being that in the Fangirl-verse everyone wanted them to be in a relationship rather than enemies. […]

I Might have Enjoyed This More at Another Time

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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I am so grateful that the a couple of things about Wayward Son irritated me, otherwise I would be finding 250 words for unenthusiastic. I was really looking forward to Wayward Son after loving Carry On. In short, Simon Snow is depressed and listless after defeating the mage, draining all his magic into the Humdrum, and finding himself with permanent wings and a tail. He doesn’t think he deserves Baz as his boyfriend and doesn’t know how to talk to him. Baz feels Simon slipping away […]

Levi is a whole damn mood, y’all

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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This is has got to be my third re-read of Fangirl and it just never gets old. This is one of the sweetest g-d books out there, I will never stop recommending or adoring it. Rainbow Rowell just writes these wonderful warm blanket books that are perfect for so many situations up to and including when you’re spending Valentine’s Day cooped up in a hotel room a thousand miles from your husband. This book is a hug. I know this is the umpteenth Rowell/Fangirl review here on […]

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.”

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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I’ve been working on this review for a while, and I was finally going to polish it and publish it, but I ended up deleting it, so I’m going to quickly do a new one. I read Carry On back when it first came out (I would normally link to my review, but I never actually reviewed it). I loved it back then, so now that the sequel was being released, and with a bit of time to kill waiting for my fancy copy to […]

There’ll be peace when you are done?

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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This might be my most subdued five star rating ever. I liked this, but it’s a whole different vibe from Carry On, and oh my dear lord did I ever love Carry On. The Simon Snow gang goes on an American Road Trip (TM) so that Penny can meet up with her suddenly terse long distance boyfriend (no points awarded for adding two and two together), and Simon is having an existential crisis after the comedown from saving the world, which impacts his relationship with […]



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