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.)

Emmalita's Reviews:

I took everything I knew about comedy, then I pulled it all apart and built a monster out of its corpse.

Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

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Nothing I say in this review is going to adequately express how generally good this book is because I keep wallowing in the ways it is impacting me personally. It is very good and I think a lot of people should read it. Especially now when there is a rising focus on driving LGBTQ+ folks further into the margins and erasing them from the present. Hannah Gadsby’s Ten Steps to Nanette has laid me out flat. Before flattening me, it knocked me for a loop, […]

CBR Diversions – Tell Us Your Favorite True Story

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I’m in a non-fiction kind of mood right now. Spring has sprung and as the days get longer and the news gets well, you know, I’m craving knowledge. I love books that help me connect the dots. I’m reading Hannah Gadsby’s truly excellent memoir, Ten Steps to Nanette. Along with writing about her childhood, she adds in breaks to give the historical and cultural context that she wasn’t aware of as a child, but internalized anyway. I’m also reading Rachel Maddow’s Blowout, which is also […]

Everything is better with fancy toast

The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary

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I don’t review every book I read. I hadn’t really planned to review this book because I didn’t particularly have anything well formulated to say. But, for some reason, I was looking at the reviews on Goodreads and saw that someone got big mad because Linden and Jasper-Ann are both pansexual. That reviewer only wants straightness in their romance – that’s what they actually said and a whole lot of people liked their review. And now I’m mad that they were mad and I’m writing […]

Probably Flexible Enough for the Home Baker

The Flexible Baker by Jo Pratt

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When I was a vegetarian, I said I would never go vegan because I love butter and cheese too much. Classic irony – a few years ago my body decided that it doesn’t like dairy (beans, nuts, and coconut are also in the no go party). So I’ll still never be a vegan because I’m no longer a vegetarian, but I also can’t eat butter and cheese. Insert cry/laugh emoji here. Baking is very important to my mental health and it’s been tough figuring out […]

“Stranger things have happened,” I say. “Most of them in the last month.”

The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa

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I really enjoyed this contemporary fake dating romance set in and around Washington DC. The Wedding Crasher is Mia Sosa’s follow up to The Worst Best Man. Solange Pereira agrees to help her cousin at a wedding and inadvertently becomes the main attraction when she overhears the bride profess her love to a man who is not the groom. Dean isn’t heartbroken about being left at the alter. It’s disappointing though. He had hoped to get life partner ticked off his to-do list, but he wasn’t in […]

The Sugar Queen and the Mixer King

Sweethand by N.G. Peltier

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N.G. Peltier’s debut romance is as gorgeous inside as it’s cover. Sweethand is the start of a series, so not only do we have a romance to root for, Peltier is also establishing a community and laying the groundwork for the romances to come. Cherisse is running a dessert catering business out of her apartment and rebuilding her brand after a public meltdown when she broke up with her ex. Her ex, a star in the local soca music scene, soured her on relationships in general […]



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