Okay: confession time. I read this because a) Emma Watson suggested it as her “Our Shared Shelf” group on Goodreads for January and b) I needed a non-fiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes for the 2016 Read Harder Challenge. This was not an “oh! I must read this book!” choice so much as a “well, if a whole group of people are going to read it, I might as well choose this one” choice. I am just young enough where Gloria Steinem […]
Cannonball Book Club Reads Romance – Book Announcement!
The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev
Join us at 11:00 am EST for our discussion! Yes, it’s a kissing book. Welcome friends, to the announcement of our very first Cannonball Book Club Reads book. You’re excited aren’t you? I am. ::Ahem:: If you’ve looked up at the author/title listing you know who won, but let’s make it official: our Cannonball Book Club Reads Romance pick is The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev! I want to let you know that from the beginning this was a VERY tight race. Over 90 of […]
A Lackluster Friends to Lovers Romance
Over the past several years I’ve been slowly but surely making my way through the Kowalski Family books by Shannon Stacey. They cover the romantic lives of the Kowalski cousins in New England and the people in their lives. I started reading these because Ms. Stacey writes the kind of straightforward, serviceable romance novels that let the reader slow down, read about some characters who aren’t too far from yourself and people you know, but just far enough to be fiction, and have a little […]
Raylan returns to Harlan and other stories.
I’m continuing down my Elmore Leonard path and was off in search of the next Raylan story. Fire in the Hole is the third story, and it’s contained within this collection. When the Women Come Out to Dance is a collection of Leonard’s short stories, and since Audible suggested it and I’ve loved listening to the other Raylan stories: Pronto and Riding the Rap. (This collection of Elmore Leonard’s short fiction’s title was changed to Fire in the Hole capitalize on its connection to FX’s […]
TEAM SEVRO FOREVER
I started my adventure with the Red Rising books last year because both Red Rising and Golden Son had received enthusiastic reviews from Alexis, scootsa1000, and narfna. Red Rising also checked off a box for me in the 2015 Read Harder challenge, as Brown wrote the book before he was 25. With the third and final book in the series being published next month, I figured it was time to get my act together and read Golden Son in order to be ready. I have […]
“… cheer the fuck up and eat your burger.”
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith, Robert Glenister (narrator)
*Note: This review was completed in 2016 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known. My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]
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