Hello my lovely fellow Cannonballers! We are 10 days away from our first #CannonBookClub of 2021 - Young at Heart. Our books this time are Judy Blume's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Claribel Ortega's Ghost Squad. Choose one or more and … [Read more]
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
The one where a buttoned up graduate student gets drunk gay married in Vegas and her life is turned upside down. This is a very good debut not completely to my tastes. Mostly it just felt overwritten in parts. There were many instances of sentences where you could just lop off the last part of … [Read more]
Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey
The premise here is: What if your sibling went to magic school and you're a muggle? And what if you're a private detective hired to solve a murder at a magic school? Both of these are intriguing separately. Together, I could not resist this book. Unfortunately, I did not like it nearly as much as I … [Read more]
The Graft by Martina Cole
Nick Leary, a rich businessman who makes most of his money with shady deals and who doesn't shrink back from using violence to get what he wants, is one night woken by strange noises in his home. When he discovers an intruder with a gun he attacks him with a baseball bat. The intruder is discovered … [Read more]
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
Megan Rapinoe has lived an amazing life, and she documents it in a way that it feels like she's having a conversation with you in her autobiography, One Life. The book goes through her childhood, learning to play soccer, going to college, making the US Women's Junior and then National teams, and … [Read more]
Ariadna by Jennifer Saint
I think maybe Greek mythology retellings just aren't for me. I don't think it'll surprise anyone that the main point of all [insert culture here] retellings is to rebalance the agency, and give some / a lot of it to the characters that have traditionally been second tier, aka the women. Spinning … [Read more]
