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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Because demons like to play.

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado

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Xiomara’s grandfather’s will drops this bombshell on his family, “One of you is el bacà, the demon that I made a deal with. Get rid of them or you will be damned.” The demon must be identified and expelled by sunrise. Once the message is read, the lawyer leaves to find a different will and the Abreu family find themselves trapped together in Papi Ramon’s house by a storm. Over the course of the afternoon, evening, and night, the family secrets are revealed. Xiomara searches […]

Logan took a sip from his beer as the door pushed open and bad news walked through, sparkling.

Love in the Time of Wildfires by Janine Amesta

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One of the things I like about reading Janine Amesta’s books is the character work. There’s always a why behind her characters and their actions. I wouldn’t be surprised if the starting point for her books is wondering how two characters got into the situation they are in. I think I noticed it more with this read because River, one of the main characters in Love in the Time of Wildfires, is a wildlife behaviorist. She notices how people behave. She clocks her grumpy neighbor, […]

A Summerween Romance Audiobook Update

I Haunt it That Way by Isabelle Popp

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I’ve really struggled with how to review I Haunt it That Way because I enjoyed it so much but it is a weird book. A weird book I loved, but difficult to describe. I Haunt it That Way is a ghost story and a romance. Like Popp’s debut, Let’s Give ’em Pumpkin to Talk About (which I also loved), it’s about shifting how we see. It’s about grief, not only for someone we lost but for versions of ourself that we couldn’t be earlier. In Haunt, […]

The pros and cons of disappearing from the world

The Invisible Roommate by Timothy Janovsky

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I have enjoyed almost everything Timothy Janovsky has written, and I’ve enjoyed watching him grow as a writer. Janovsky has always honored the deep and serious feelings aspects of his characters while leaning into the comedic elements of the plot. In The Invisible Roomate, Janovsky lightens the mood with humor, but he steers away from comedy. The Invisible Roommate utilizes gothic elements to echo the isolation Gerard and Emory feel. H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man isn’t my favorite late 19th century science fiction novel, […]

This is propaganda to allow dogs to eat roadkill. And one of my comfort reads.

The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

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I don’t know what kind of addictive substances Ilona Andrews puts in their writing, but please don’t send me to rehab. I am sometimes surprised by which books become comfort reads. I have several, including a couple from Ilona Andrews. The Inheritance is one of the books that took me by surprise. I read it while it was being serialized and enjoyed it, but my world wasn’t rocked by it. And then I got the itch to listen to the audiobook. Still enjoyable but not […]

CBR18 Book Review Bingo September Check In

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The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. Make sure I have the correct numbers for reviews! This should be current as of 12:00 pm eastern on Friday, September 18. The Players: auntadadoom – 3 reviews beereadsbooks – 13 reviews, 3 bingos BlackRaven – 25 reviews, card complete! carmelpie – 14 reviews Classic – 25 reviews, card complete! Dome’Loki – 3 reviews ElCicco – 20 reviews, 3 bingos elderberrywine – 6 reviews esmemoria – 15 reviews, 2 bingos faintingviolet – 11 reviews G.D. Giant – 11 […]



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