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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A Psalm for my Inner Perfectionist

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

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I discovered to my horror while reading an arc for Monk and Robot #2, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, that I never finished my review of A Psalm for the the Wild Built. I’m also not surprised, because my love for it overwhelms me into a flailing state of indecipherable babbling and crying. There are some novellas that are like the Tardis, so much bigger than you think they could possibly be. I’ve listened to A Psalm for the Wild-Built three times now, and I […]

If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

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I am giving The Atlas Six 3.5 rounded up to 4 stars, because I struggled with my focus while reading it, but I also really wanted to know what happened. This was one of those books I thought about not finishing, so I read the end to see if I wanted to go there. I did. The ending made the beginning more interesting and made me keep picking up the book when my attention wandered. The problem is, my attention wandered a lot. Every ten […]

A moment of softness between us, two not very outwardly soft people.

Wherever is Your Heart by Anita Kelly

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Wherever is Your Heart starts after 5 years of pining. Mal is the bartender that the characters in Sing Anyway and Our Favorite Songs found scary/sexy/intimidating. Mal has steely eyes and keeps herself somewhat apart from the denizens of Moonies. June is a long-haul trucker who is based in Portland and has been stopping in to Moonies when she’s in town for 5 years. At the Pride festival the year before, something was almost said between them, but June got scared and left. June and Mal have […]

A Good Starter Cookbook for Diabetics

Betty Crocker Simply Delicious Diabetes Cookbook by Betty Crocker

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This is not my usual kind of cookbook. A dear friend told me that they needed to make some dietary changes because their blood sugar levels were consistently high, though not yet over the diabetes threshold. They were stressed because they didn’t really know what they needed to do, what to eat, what to not eat, and so on. An hour later I was looking at NetGalley and there was the Betty Crocker Simply Delicious Diabetes Cookbook. I don’t have any expertise in what makes […]

When something really fits, you suddenly realize how much energy you’ve been unconsciously devoting to not fitting.

Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly

Our Favorite Songs by Anita Kelly

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After reading Love & Other Disasters, I knew I needed to read Anita Kelly’s Moonlighter’s novellas. Sing Anyway and Our Favorite Songs are so squishy and soft. They are like fresh homemade marshmallows, made with really good ingredients and not so sweet they rot your teeth. Instead of jet-puffed, they are hope-puffed. The Moonlight Café, known to it’s patrons as Moonies, is a slightly sketchy queer bar in a mostly industrial part of Portland, Oregon with regular karaoke nights. Sam Bell, Professor Sam Bell (they/them), has […]

No one could keep a good b*tch down…but that didn’t mean she wouldn’t end up on the floor.

The Worst Guy by Kate Canterbary

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It’s the romances that feature the difficult people who feel unlovable that get to me every time. Add in some hurt-comfort and I am trash for your book. Kate Canterbary’s The Worst Guy gives us two people who feel like they are too difficult to love finding out that they love the most difficult parts of each other and then building a relationship that works for them. Sebastian Stemmel is a trauma surgeon at a Boston hospital. Sara Shapiro is a plastic surgeon at the […]



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