Cannonball Read 18

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Reading has slowed down a bit lately, but I won't let that stop me!

Lisa Bee's Reviews:

A Sugary-Sweet Take on Dark Academia That’s Far Too Unpleasant to Other Women

Bunny by Mona Awad

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BIG OOF on this one! As I neared the end of this novel, I noticed a pull-quote on the cover that I originally didn’t pay attention to on account of being in an unappealing font to read (I’m weird about fonts, y’all, it’s part of my job after all). Upon actually looking at it, however, I saw that it was written by someone I very much don’t care for. So in retrospect, that might have been a clue that I wasn’t going to enjoy this […]

The Cover Screamed “ME!” But the Read Was Actually Very Frustrating and Not Me At All…

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

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A cover showing a woman lovingly embracing a fish AND a title which is my star sign (a sign that I personally extremely exemplify in all manners of my behavior)? Sign me up! Or so I thought. Turns out, despite wanting to know where this would go and thereby finishing it quite quickly, I wasn’t feeling it for a few reasons. And yes, I will get into all of them because I have realized that when I don’t like things I always feel like I […]

Sometimes the Horrors We Create In Our Minds Are Easier to Exist With Than Reality

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

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“Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectivities dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be.” The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a coming-of-age novel that takes place over one fateful summer where lessons are learned and relationships take on new meanings. Our protagonist is a 12 year-old boy named Jake, living in Niagara Falls in the 1980s. […]

“I live here, I have chosen to live here, because life seems real to me here.”

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler

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Living in the suburbs on the edges of a major Canadian city my whole life, I have a tendency to romanticize small-town living a little bit. With a lot of family living in small-town Alberta, I only get glimpses of what it’s like when I visit, but I like to believe in the possibilities of community in such areas. Is it realistic? Maybe not. But I like to daydream, you see. So sometimes I just want to read or watch something that takes me out […]

Slightly Less Bleak Than the Previous Historical Fiction Involving Performers that I Read This Year…

Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

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So, funny thing about listening to this one in audiobook form, should you (like myself) choose to play books at 1.5 speed or more: the speaking will be a good and understandable pace, but every time a song gets sung by the reader, it comes out in a silly little lilt that sounded quite humorous to me every time, even if the mood of the novel or the song itself at that point was not supposed to be cheerful and funny. So fair warning about […]

A Personal Portrayal of a Childhood and Coming-of-Age that Stumbles in the Final Act

We the Animals by Justin Torres

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A friend actually recommended that I see the film We the Animals recently (which I haven’t gotten around to watching yet, whoops!), so upon finding out that it was an adaptation of a novel, I decided to get into the book. It is loosely based on the author’s own life, and reads like a childhood memoir of sorts. It is also very brief, and this works well in the majority of the novel to paint a picture of memories for the protagonist, but ultimately does […]



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