Small town – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

“I kind of like things that are imperfect.”

Visible Mending by M. Arbon

October 24, 2022 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I very much enjoyed the first book in the Clover Hill series, so I was so excited to start the next one, especially when I saw it had a nonbinary crafty main character. While there’s not much overlap between the two books, it was still a joy to read a romance set in a very queer-friendly small town. Edd spends his days baking and delivering his desserts to his various friends in Clover Hill, or hanging out with his artist friends. He’s not much of […]

Cute, queer and geeky small town romance

Winning Move by Skye Kilaen

October 13, 2022 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

I gobble up everything by Skye Kilaen, so when I saw she was writing the first book in a multi-author series set in a queer small town? Oh heck yes. And it’s exactly what I wanted – an adorably geeky and queer small town romance. Gina has a comfortable life in Clover Hill. She splits her time between working at the front desks of the vet clinic and her uncle’s garage, she plays board games at the local library, and she visits her Great Aunt […]

A cozy mystery with cute dogs and a bookstore.

The Plot is Murder (Mystery Bookshop #1) by V.M. Burns

July 28, 2022 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo Square: Cozy I love cozy mysteries anyway I can get ’em. I love to delve into book series as much as I like to marathon Hallmark Murder Mysteries. I grew up on Murder, She Wrote. I still ask my mom what episode she is watching if we’re talking on the phone while she watches. And even better, I get to learn about fun shows at work when we promote Acorn TV. The Plot Is Murder by V.M. Burns kicks off her Mystery Bookshop […]

“Shara’s not nice. Shara’s so many more important things than nice.”

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

July 5, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars It’s not exactly easy being Chloe Green, the bisexual girl with two mums when also trying to become valedictorian at Willowgrove Christian Academy in a small Alabama town. She keeps trying to protest against the school’s puritanical rules with frequent dress code violations, but also has to make sure she doesn’t actually end up expelled. Chloe has friends, having quickly befriended the other queer kids at Willowgrove, but she’s mostly avoided interacting too much with the rest of the student body. Everything changes […]

“I think most people are confused about life, because it’s not just one thing going on,” said Elner. “It’s many things going on at the same time. Life is both sad and happy, simple and complex, all at the same time.”

The Whole Town's Talking (Elmwood Springs #4) by Fannie Flagg

May 22, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Dated Like a good southern woman, I have a fondness for Fannie Flagg. I was excited to realize there are a few of her books that I’ve never read, so I grabbed this one from the library. However, I didn’t realize this was the fourth in a series, and I am such a completist that I almost needed a lie-down and smelling salts. Once I got ahold of myself, I realized that I had read two of the other books, and this […]

50 Shades of 9/11

Small Town by Lawrence Block

January 2, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I don’t quite know what to make of Lawrence Block’s Small Town. On the one hand, Block is trying to catch the spirit of the City in the months following 9/11. The story follows a cast of characters: a cop, a criminal, and a few in between, whose lives converge due to a series of murders that shake a still shaken city. Lawrence Block is one of New York City’s great poet laureates, and I appreciate what he is trying to do with the story, even […]

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