Cannonball Read 18

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Every year I say, "This is my year". So: this is my year! (Maybe.)

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Fairy tales don’t always have a happy ending

Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

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I have mixed feelings about Kristin Hannah. Sometimes, I like her stuff (The Great Alone), sometimes I can’t stand it (Comfort & Joy), and sometimes I’m in the middle (The Women). I think this one falls squarely in the middle, too. Just before Christmas, Evan Whitson, the family patriarch, falls ill and dies. On his deathbed, he extracts a promise from his daughters – award-winning photographer and wanderer Nina and the stalwart, type-A Meredith – to really learn about their mother, the cold and distant […]

Eat the Rich

The Guillotine by Delilah S. Dawson

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This book was INSANE. I saw this somewhere on my Facebook feed… someone posted they liked it, didn’t want to give any spoilers, and so I just put it on my TBR list and didn’t read the blurb. I was looking for something quick and easy Sunday morning, and this was available from the library, so in to the Kindle it went. I read this book in maybe two hours. Holy shit, is all I have to say. The long and short of the story […]

It’s a love story, baby, just say yes

It's a Love Story by Annabelle Monaghan

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Dear authors: please stop writing in present tense. I hate it. That said, I didn’t hate this book. I wish it hadn’t been written in present tense, but whatever. I’ll let that go. Mostly. Jane is a former child star turned… I’m not really sure. Is she a movie producer? It’s unclear. She works at a production company and does something with getting movies made. I’ll admit that either it wasn’t explicit in the book or I wasn’t paying attention, or more likely, I don’t […]

The return of Nora: The Lost Bride Trilogy

Inheritance by Nora Roberts

The Mirror by Nora Roberts

The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts

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Nora’s got a new trilogy out there, and I stumbled across the first book quite by accident right after it came out, like TWO YEARS AGO. And the first book just…ended, and it was the first time in awhile that I was mad at Nora for not having the others ready. It was a pretty big cliffhanger, even if I can’t remember all the details because it was a thousand years ago. And then she took SO LONG to get the second one out, and […]

There are three sides to every story…

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

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Alice is a pop culture journalist – think Buzzfeed, Cosmo, that kind of thing. Hayden is a Serious Journalist – Pulitzer prize winner for a biography of a beloved rock star who died of Alzheimer’s. Their personalities match their jobs. Alice is fizzy and fun and sparkling, and Hayden is… grumpy. And now they’re both in a little town on an island off the coast of Georgia, competing for the opportunity to write the biography of the century. Margaret Ives is the sole surviving member […]

Are craft breweries still cool?

I've Got My Mind Set on Brew by Stephanie Jayne

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I’m old, so I don’t know what is cool anymore. But I do have a fun beer fact: did you know that you cannot buy Miller High Life in France? It’s the “champagne of beers”. I don’t know. Maybe the French think you’ll be confused. Although why anyone would order Miller High Life instead of champagne is beyond me but maybe I’m just a snob. This is one of those books I downloaded from the library for free, and read while the hubs was fishing. […]



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