Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Classic's Quick Questions interview.)

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I Choose Darkness

I Choose Darkness by Jenny Lawson

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This was  hilarious short story by Jenny Lawson. Her holiday essay even though the cover shows an elf with bat wings, is about Halloween. I think at one point I started laughing so hard I could feel my side giving. I have read some of Lawson’s other memoirs, and she has a great style. Her childhood always sounds bonkers. And this one gives her insight on being raised in the middle of nowhere during Halloween. The passage about she and her sister going Trick or […]

Getaway Short Story Collection

Uncharted Waters by Sally Hepworth

His Happy Place by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Stockholm by Catherine Steadman

Belle Mar by Luanne Rice

Catch Her in a Lie by Jess Lourey

Shell Game by Rumaan Alam

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So I read through all of the “Getaway” collection the other day and thought some stories hit harder than others. Per usual, here’s my rating per story in the collection. “Uncharted Waters” by Sally Hepworth (3 stars)-Yeah this one shocked me too. Probably because I have pretty much loved most of Hepworth’s mystery novels set in Australia. This one is also set in Australia, but follows a married woman named Ella who is going on a cruise without her husband Mac. While on the cruise […]

The Influencer

The Influencer by Joyce Maynard

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I don’t even know what to say about this one. It was a lot. I think the biggest thing is that the family of Gabby Petito may read this and have some qualms about it. This was a really great short story showing all sides to the murder of a young woman who dreamed about becoming an influencer. I loved the little twist at the end and thought it was quite good. But for those who are True Crime fans who followed Petito’s missing case […]

The Bookstore Sisters

The Bookstore Sisters by Alice Hoffman

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What a great short story by Hoffman. I love her anthology books for a reason. I have never really been able to get into her novels because I feel like they lose a lot along the way. But she always shines in her short stories. This one follows Isabel Gibson who now in her early 30s is alone and living in New York City. She fled her small town of Maine decades earlier after grieving the loss of her mother and father. She and her […]

Next In Death Drops (Books 25-30)–Finally Going to Get Back to Other Books

Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb

Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb

Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb

Promises in Death by J.D. Robb

Kindred in Death by J.D. Robb

Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb

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Well one funny thing is that I had forgotten how terrible some of the covers are on these later installments. I also totally forgot an entire book (Salvation in Death). The one good thing about reading/posting reviews of the series this year is that I had flat out forgotten some of the stories out there. I stopped buying hardback and paperback copies of the series after New York to Dallas, so I still have some books to go that I can just pull off my […]

Whiteout

Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This sadly was not as good as Blackout was. Probably because the main couple we follow in this one didn’t read as romantic to me at all. They (Sola and Stevie) read as very immature and honestly I got really tired of Stevie mighty quick. I didn’t find that whole dinner party thing realistic at all because Stevie is supposed to be really smart, but takes something that […]



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