Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Bland and Watery

Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker: Reinvent the Slow-Cooked Meal by Nicki Sizemore

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Anyone who knows me in real life or on Facebook knows that I adore my InstantPot and will proselytize on it’s wonders at the drop of the hat. I am the Kool Aid Man of the electric multicooker. As much as I love my InstantPot, it does not slow cook well, and I would be happy to use my slow cooker more often. I like my kitchen toys. When I saw Nicki Sizemore’s Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker: Reinvent the Slow-Cooked Meal offered on Netgally, I was excited to put my slow cooker back in rotation. This is an […]

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5/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

Peachy for Peach Lovers

The Peach Truck Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for All Things Peach by Stephen K. Rose, Jessica N. Rose

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I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The book is out June 25, just in time to catch the end of peach season, so hop on this one. Stephen K. Rose and Jessica N. Rose have built a business selling Georgia peaches. They started selling out of their old pickup truck, hence the name, in Nashville, but have grown nationwide. In addition to selling at farmers markets, they also sell to Nashville restaurants. The recipes in this cookbook are a combination of recipes the authors have developed and recipes from restaurants who use their peaches. […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Ollie and Darling vs Fay and Oliver

Playing House by Ruby Lang

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Ruby Lang is one of my favorite new (to me) authors. I have been waiting impatiently for her new book, Playing House, and was delighted to find that it was on NetGalley. I was even more delighted when it showed up in my in box. This is an honest review. Oliver Huang and Fay Liu have known each other for years, their friends know each other, and they are in the same profession – urban planning. Their acquaintance never turned romantic because Fay was in a long term relationship. They run into each other on a house tour and, for […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

“There’s Hope Left in These Dusty Chords”

Raze by Roan Parrish

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Raze is the third book in Roan Parrish’s Riven series. I have not read the first two, but when I saw Raze offered on NetGalley I remembered ctkat1’s very positive review and decided to request it anyway. I’m glad I did. Raze is out July 2. This was in many ways a sweet book to read. There are times when I need a heavy dose of emotional angst in my falling in love story. Raze had some good angst. Felix and Huey are both messes who are trying so hard to keep it together and be good adults.  Huey has been […]

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5/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

This book should have stayed out of print

Dearly Beloved by Mary Jo Putney

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Someone decided it would be a good idea to re-release Mary Jo Putney’s debut novel, Dearly Beloved. They were wrong. It was not a good idea. This book should be put in the archives and only brought out as a bad example. I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This review is dark and full of spoilers. Content warning – rape, sexual  assault, internalized misogyny, verbal and emotional abuse Here is the plot, with spoilers. Gervase Brandelin, Viscount St. Aubyn is at an inn in Scotland. He drinks too much. He thinks he is going […]

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5/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

A Sweet Slow Burn

Teach Me by Olivia Dade

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I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I haven’t read Olivia Dade before. I thought she was one of the authors I follow on Twitter, but she was not. She is now, though. Teach Me was a lovely read with +40 characters who behaved like they had lived lives, and actual positive fat representation. It’s out May 30th. Rose and Martin are teachers at the same high school, both teaching history classes. They are equals in their credentials, but Martin has just moved to the area and is new to the school district. A bully in the […]

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5/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

I do not want to read this book

Somebody to Love by Aurelia Fray

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This is my first DNF for the year and I have put this author on my not at any price list. The cover is cute, so I requested it from Netgalley. This is an honest review. I wish I had paid more attention to the description, it might have saved me some heartache. Henry only needed to fix the leaky office pipes. So, when a crazy woman barges in and turns his day upside down, then confesses all her secrets like a challenge, he faces two choices: Tell her he’s not the man she’s looking for, or roll with it. […]

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5/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn

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Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You. I did not get into the Star Wars extended universe before LucasFilm was bought by Disney. By the time I started reading Star Wars books, a couple of decades worth of material had been labeled as non-canonical. Now there’s a new canon of expanded Star Wars stories. Disney decided to ask Timothy Zahn to bring his popular character, Grand Admiral Thrawn from the old Legends into the new canon with Star Wars: Thrawn. Based on narfna’s 2017 review, I was happy to find the audiobook. Both the story and the […]

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5/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |


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