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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. Your CBR Book Club Maven with over a decade of Cannonballing experience I believe in the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, reviewing, and discussing. Also, Fuck Cancer. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: faintingviolet's Quick Questions interview.)

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“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s part of the risk.”

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

February 17, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

With the release of the To All the Boys P.S. I Still Love You on Netflix this week I decided to give in and read the series. I really liked the first movie in 2018 but didn’t pick the books up then. I was smitten with the movie and didn’t want to mess with that feeling. But eighteen months later I felt the time had come. In To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before we are introduced to Lara Jean Song Covey, middle sister of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Always and Forever Lara Jean, faintingviolet, Jenny Han, movie adaptations, p.s. I still love you, read women, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Always and Forever Lara Jean, faintingviolet, Jenny Han, movie adaptations, p.s. I still love you, read women, To All the Boys I've Loved Before ·
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Lucy Parker Delivers (and with a romantic pairing that don’t want kids to boot!)

Headliners (London Celebrities #5) by Lucy Parker

February 12, 2020 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I love Lucy Parker, it’s as simple as that. I love the kind of book she writes; I love the world she has built in this series and the characters she chooses to populate it with. I’m rating this one five stars, as I did with its immediate predecessor The Austen Playbook mostly because of how it made me feel while I was reading it. That isn’t to say that Parker isn’t using her craft well – she absolutely is – but that craft sunk […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a little romance, faintingviolet, Headliners London Celebrities, Lucy Parker, read harder challenge, RWA Implosion Read, series ender

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a little romance, faintingviolet, Headliners London Celebrities, Lucy Parker, read harder challenge, RWA Implosion Read, series ender ·
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A Valentine’s Delight

A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day (Holidays with the Wongs #4) by Jackie Lau

February 8, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

In recent months Jackie Lau has jumped to the “read right away” position as her novellas in the Holidays with the Wongs series has been released. While I didn’t get an ARC this time, I have signed up to be considered in future. A Big Surprise for Valentine’s Day makes me feel that was a very good choice. Picking up after the events of A Match Made for Thanksgiving and A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas and running concurrently with A Fake Girlfriend for […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day, end of a series, faintingviolet, Holidays With the Wongs, Jackie Lau, novella, read harder challenge, sexy times

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:11 · Genres: Romance · Tags: A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day, end of a series, faintingviolet, Holidays With the Wongs, Jackie Lau, novella, read harder challenge, sexy times ·
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“Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture that’s our fault.”

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

February 8, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

There is something particularly powerful about reading someone’s accounting of their dogged pursual of truth, of what is right, of what matters and we are treated to just that in Catch and Kill. In his second book Ronan Farrow reckons with the institutional powers and societal inequities that create the sort of stories he’s worked on reporting for the past few years at The New Yorker. Part memoir, part investigative report, Catch and Kill is an imminently fast read, jumping from one unbelievable if it […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: banned book, banned books, Catch and Kill, challenged book, faintingviolet, Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporting, me too, Ronan Farrow

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: banned book, banned books, Catch and Kill, challenged book, faintingviolet, Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporting, me too, Ronan Farrow ·
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Announcing 2020 #CannonBookClub Topics and Dates!

February 6, 2020 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]

Filed Under: Book Club, News from MsWas Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Book Announcement, Emily St. John Mandel, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQ, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Station Eleven, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Glass Hotel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Genres: Book Club, News from MsWas · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Book Announcement, Emily St. John Mandel, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQ, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Station Eleven, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Glass Hotel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ·
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“I am tired of twisting myself into painful shapes for mere scraps of respect or consideration. Tired of bending this way and that in search of approval that will only ever be half granted.”

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits #1) by Olivia Waite

February 1, 2020 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Olivia Waite is an author I’ve been following on Twitter for a little while – she’s just the right kind of outspoken feminist romance author that I like to follow (they are a fun crowd, seriously, get into Romance Twitter it’s a good place to be even when things aren’t burning down). Her vocal and staunch support of #IStandWithCourtney and the ensuing fallout with the RWA meant that I bumped her novel that much further up my to read list because I will support the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: f/f romance, faintingviolet, feminine pursuits, olivia waite, Regency historical romance, RWA Implosion Read, the lady's guide to celestial mechanics, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Romance · Tags: f/f romance, faintingviolet, feminine pursuits, olivia waite, Regency historical romance, RWA Implosion Read, the lady's guide to celestial mechanics, we need diverse books ·
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