Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have five year old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

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Dolly Parton, pageants, and a boy named Bo

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

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Dumplin’ is Willowdean Dickson – the nickname given to her by her former beauty queen mother. But Willowdean doesn’t mind too much, she’s happy with who she is and if she’s carrying a bit more weight than the world thinks she ‘should’, then to hell with them. She’s got her bestest bud Ellen and their shared love of all things Dolly Parton to get her through any rough patches. But then Will takes a job at Harpy’s restaurant and meets Bo, a private school educated […]

Love before first sight

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Lincoln’s job is terrible. He has to monitor emails at a newspaper and send warning messages to staff whose emails have inappropriate content. He hates it. He works nights and hardly sees anyone and the creepy nature of his work is getting him down. Except when he reads Beth and Jennifer’s exchanges. He starts to look forward to those. And he doesn’t send them a warning like he knows he should. Soon it’s not just that he likes reading those messages, it’s that he likes […]

Didn’t really give me the feels

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

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Dimple Shah wants to avoid the usual expectations for a young woman in her family – namely she will very quickly find a suitable husband and settle down with a bunch of kids. For Dimple that is so far off in the future, but her parents don’t feel the same way. Amazingly they still let her attend Insomnia Con, a summer programme for coding with a competition aspect that may lead her to her idol. Dimple is thrilled, but of course there’s a catch. That […]

More a memoir, less a guide

Ready or Not...There We Go!: The REAL Experts' Guide to the Toddler Years with Twins by Elizabeth Lyons

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A so-called guide to surviving the toddler years and beyond with twins. Elizabeth Lyons and her ‘sorority’ of twin mums have apparently seen and done it all and have got you covered on what to expect and how to get through it. Trying to navigate parenting toddlers is hard yo, twins or singletons or whatever. These tiny little basically drunk people who can’t tell you what’s up and are hard-wired to throw themselves into danger at every possible moment are amazing but exhausting. So I’m […]

It’s not actually a bookshop

The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

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Nina Redmond loves books. They’re her life. She’s a librarian who spends all her time reading and matching others with their perfect book. And she’d be perfectly happy doing just that all the time. Until the library is closing and she has to reapply for her job, a rather a job, since it’s nothing like the one she had before. She decides to use this opportunity to change her life. She moves from Birmingham to a sleepy Scottish village mostly on a whim, but also […]

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you”

Educated by Tara Westover

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Tara Westover grew up in the mountains of Idaho, raised by religious parents who feared government interference and prepared for the End of Days. She was ‘home schooled’ – though her education was minimal – and spent most of her days helping her father with his scrap business. An activity that often left her and her brothers injured. As she got older her father became more radical in his beliefs and her older brother was violent towards her. Tara found her escape in education and […]



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