Welcome to the August check in for the Cannonball Read 18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge. It is hot where I am. I know John Green gives air conditioning only three stars in The Anthropocene Reviewed, but I was without for 6 hours today and I can assure you that it is not optional during a Texas heat wave. I hope you are all finding the perfect spots for reading. The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. Make sure I have the correct numbers […]
I love Noods
Instant Noodles & Beyond by Robin Ha
Robin Ha’s Cook Korean! is one of my favorite cookbooks, so I leapt at an opportunity to read an advance copy of Instant Noodles & Beyond. As I expected, Instant Noodles & Beyond is friendly, creative, and useful. My one single issue with it, and this may be an arc issue and not a problem in the final product, there is no table of contents. My plan to address this issue if it exists in my physical copy is sticky tabs. I will be getting […]
I, a lactose intolerant person, love this book so much I made a cheese board for it
World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon by Olivia Dade
The thing that struck me pretty early in World’s Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon, was that there was no internal barrier to a relationship between Gwen and Hugh, it was all external. Hugh and Gwen met once just before the most humiliating moment of Gwen’s life. But as soon as Gwen walks back into Hugh’s life 20 years later, it’s very clear that he’s all in. There will be no third act break up, he will make any and all adjustments to keep Gwen in […]
Delicately unpacking a whole lot of emotional baggage
Just a Highland Fling by Naina Kumar
There was a point in Just a Highland Fling where Neelu is in the car with her estranged father and her one night stand antagonist, and I thought, “no one handles emotional baggage like Naina Kumar.” Highland Fling is a lot of fun. I enjoyed it enormously. It’s a good road trip romance with forced proximity, sheep, daddy issues, and a hot Desi bagpiper/poetry professor. What I really loved though was the way Kumar handled big raw feelings and their fallout with delicacy. Neelu is […]
Some very enjoyable bits, but ultimately didn’t come together for me
Fossil Feud by Maggie North
I don’t know if it was mood, book hangover from a bunch of fantastic books, or craft problems, but it took a lot of effort for me to finish Fossil Feud. Fossil Feud was my first book from Maggie North, and my unfamiliarity with the author’s style might have been part of the problem. There were parts that I enjoyed a lot, but I ended up wanting more and less. My biggest frustration was with the love interest, Dr. James Smithson. He never felt real […]
Marrying for health insurance and real estate
Married with Benefits by Ellie Palmer
A marriage of convenience for health insurance and real estate is so appropriate for 2026. I would marry someone for good health insurance, sadly, I don’t have real estate to trade. Married With Benefits takes on that question of who could we be if we weren’t constantly struggling to survive? Lainey is incredibly competent and a talented artist, but to eat she drives for Uber in her small Wisconsin town. Lainey suffers from debilitating migraines, which are quite treatable, but the prescription medication is expensive. […]
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