Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Accidentally Lost, Found, Returned

The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond by Amy Sparkes

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  Bingo 17: Borrowed Imagine my surprise one day when I went to my mailbox and saw two book boxes, when I was only expecting one. The second book had my name on the outer label, but was ordered by and for someone else per the sales slip. It was a busy Saturday and I wasn’t going to be able to go to the local Barnes and Noble to return this mistake in shipping, so I may have borrowed the book to read before sending […]

Not much edge to the veg

The Edgy Veg by Candice Hutchings

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Bingo 16: Culture The Edgy Vedge is a bit dated, but it demonstrates both vegan food and Youtube content creator culture. Full disclosure 1: I don’t hang out on Youtube a lot. That said, I can see how the “quirky-cute” vibe the writing tries for might have been popular in the video version; I have not looked that up. The written version gets a little annoying, like someone is trying to hard to be funny. First of all, I see very little “edgy” in trying […]

GBBO Romantasy Meringue

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner

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Bingo 15 :White Notice the color of the title text? And few splashes of said color elsewhere? Ok then. However, if you want to be more creative about it, white is often represented as the absence of color, which could be argued to be a metaphor for the total absence of substance in this novel. So, there’s that too. Now to be absolutely clear, the absence of substance is exactly what I needed when I picked this up. I needed a palate cleasner from something […]

“I am given no voice in decisions or plans!” but she wants one

Elusive by Genevieve Cogman

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Bingo 14: Citizen Elusive is part 2 of a trilogy that re-imagines some things about the French Revolution. It’s definitely fiction, but given the historical context of citizens trying to take back power from the elite which is a theme in the novel in more ways than one, I argue this counts. A major part of the fiction is the addition of the (former?) maid Eleanor to the Scarlet Pimpernel and his crew, and the addition of vampires (Marie Antoinette might still be around in […]

Jane Austen and Jeeves Meet the Real Housewives of Sex and the City

Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes

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Bingo 13: Family Wives Like Us is sort of like Jeeves written by Jane Austen featuring the Real Housewives of the Cotswolds with a touch of Sex and the City (the focal friend group parts of it at least). It’s about a bunch of married or recently un-married ladies approaching 40 and their people, some husbands and kids, caring a little too much about their Instagram. Relationships are the key, both the married family kind, and the found family kind. On the one hand, this […]

Not the right chemistry for me

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Bingo 12: School Some of the more significant moments especially towards the beginning of Lessons in Chemistry, as well as some later generally consistent episodes related to school work and learning put this one in the School spot. It’s no secret that being female in academia has been a challenge for a significant part of history, and Lessons in Chemistry starts with the worst parts of the 1950s-1960s horrific treatment of women in higher education (seriously, there should be a CW for the assault scene). […]



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