Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

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This sounds like something I would say, and I’m slightly concerned that the person I relate to most at this table is the one who added protein powder to his wine

Every Step She Takes by Alison Cochrun

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Happy Sapphic September! I have somehow not read any of Alison Cochrun’s previous books, and I enjoyed Every Step She Takes so much, I’m going to need to read her backlist. Every Step She Takes is a journey of discovery story. Sadie impulsively announces she’ll take her sister’s place on a Camino de Santiago tour in Portugal. She has no idea what she’s getting herself into. She doesn’t know that the tour group is queer focused, she doesn’t know that the Camino is historically a […]

“Did you see stars?” “The whole Milky Way.”

Right Next Door by Sophie Andrews

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Exhales a deep, deep sigh of relief. The third book in Sophie Andrews’s Stone Family series, Right Next Door, is much better than the first two installments. I think Sophie Andrews is good at angsty emotional escapes, and I’m glad she’s embracing it. I do really appreciate when authors stretch themselves, even when it doesn’t work, and I’m always going to embrace Sophie Andrews’s progressive values. Nicole is thrown into an existential crisis when her husband asks to open their marriage shortly before he leaves […]

If anyone can do magic, there’s definitely going to be a reality competition show about it.

Witch You Would by Lia Amador

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I am on a roll with some truly excellent reads and listens. Lia Amador’s Witch You Would is a fun contemporary fantasy romance. Lia Amador has created a world in which magic is something anyone can do, like cooking or math. Some people are better at it than others and so of course there are reality shows in which people compete for best spell caster. The venerable reality show, Cast Judgement, is filming its next season in Miami and Penelope will be a contestant. The prize […]

Sadie didn’t so much like people as suffer her own attraction to them.

Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About by Isabelle Popp

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I recognize that books are not therapists, but I can’t actually afford a therapist, so books are what I’ve got. It took me a bit to dive into Isabelle Popp’s Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About because I have recently read some wonderfully emotionally devastating books, and I was not up to a book with a fraught father daughter relationship. After a couple of books that I enjoyed in peace, I opened Pumpkin to Talk About again and within two chapters was completely in […]

Thanks to my public library system, I’m in my Julia Turshen cookbook era

Feed the Resistance: Recipes and Ideas for Getting Involved by Julia Turshen

What Goes With What by Julia Turshen

In Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan with Julia Turshen

Now & Again by Julia Turshen

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I finally got a library card (long story) and I have been checking out cookbooks like you would not believe. I am so excited by the variety of cookbooks I now have available to me. I am bonding with one of my local librarians, who also checks out cookbooks. A week ago, I found myself with a stack of cookbooks and suddenly realized Julia Turshen was listed as an author on all of them. This was totally unintentional as one had been requested as a […]

“So, you finally decided to come over to the cool side of the Kinsey scale. Welcome. We have flags and the best agenda ever.”

The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee

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The Secret Crush Book Club by Karmen Lee was a perfect read after two books that put me through the wringer. It’s soft, slow, and thoughtfully sweet. Things happen, but it’s not plot on top of plot. It’s a small town, slow burn, character driven, sapphic romance. Dani is the eldest of the Williams sisters, a single mom, and a nurse. Her sisters have found their one true loves (The 7-10 Split and The Relationship Mechanic), her son is developing more independent interests, and even her […]



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