Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Delightful Diversion

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

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See what had happened was I woke up with a migraine. A real doozy of a skull-splitter. And there I was, in bed with medicines and comfort objects and drawn curtains and agony. Days like this I can’t watch tv, can’t do much of anything besides lie still and quiet and wait for sleep or sweet release of death. I open my kindle, throw it in to dark mode, bump up the text size until the words aren’t blurry and hope to find a story […]

The Queer Family Stone

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

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This is a bit of a delayed Christmas romcom review, both due to the large hold list for it through the Twin Cities-area Libby library and because I utterly fell down on actually reviewing books for CBR 14. Ellie Oliver is a failed animation artist turned webcomic writer and barista. She’s stuck in life and hung up on a one-day snowstorm fling she had over Christmas the year before so when Andrew Kim-Prescott, the landlord of the coffee shop she works at, asks him to […]

Meta-Romcom for the Frustrated Fan of Typical HEA Romcoms

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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The tenth time I laughed out loud reading Book Lovers was the moment I decided it was a 4.5-star romcom rather than a 4. Another that many others have read and reviewed so it’s less important to provide a synopsis than it is to write about how it feels. Here we go: This is a book that, no doubt, has many of us readers of romcoms thinking “How did Emily Henry get full access to my life? Is a reality TV crew following me around a la Ed […]

Better late than never to The Brown Sisters series

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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CBR Bingo: Gaslight – finally have an official #CBR14Bingo! As a lover of romance novels, I’ve been hearing the buzz around The Brown Sisters series by Talia Hibber for quite some time! I finally sat down and read the first book for my Mocha Girls Read book club in January. Get a Life, Chloe Brown starts with Chloe having a brief near-death experience. She makes a list of all the things she’s missed out on in life. She dives in head first by moving out of […]

Love is Not the End-All

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman

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“To me, love is more like a lending library. To keep it, we must continually renew it. Otherwise we pay a hefty fine.” There is a purported family curse that afflicts the Fontana family – that second-born daughters will never find true love and wed. When their estranged great-aunt Poppy promises to break the curse if they accompany her on a trip to Italy, Emilia and Lucy’s lives change radically. This was a warm and engaging read about a trio of women who are misfits […]

That rare unicorn: an actual rom-com that’s charming and sweet!

In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer

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The author’s letter at the start of the book states that she set out to write a book influenced by all those zany 90s rom-coms set in New York City. And she meets that goal spectacularly! Hilarious meet-disaster? Check. Complete opposites? Check. Touristy things around NYC? Check! This book is ridiculously charming and adorable and very much worthy of the rom-com label. Franny was already having a bad day when her dress gets stuck in a subway door, ripping it and exposing her entire backside […]



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