Cannonball Read 18

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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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I think Lessons in Chemistry had been recommended to me no less than 10 times, by different people, before I decided to give it a try. I don’t know why I delayed reading it, probably mostly because I was trying to complete my 2023 reading challenge and couldn’t figure out how to make this fit. But this year’s challenge required a book set 24 years before I was born, and Lessons in Chemistry fit the bill! I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Based on […]

Enemies to Lovers With Some Spice

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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If you’re a fan of the enemies-to-lovers genre of romance, do I have the book for you! Lucy and Josh are executive assistants for the co-Editors in Chief of a publishing company, and they hate each other’s guts. Every day since the day they met has been a series of games of one-upmanship, whether it’s the Staring Game, the Copycat Game, or something else entirely. Lucy and Josh are oil and water, chalk and cheese – they have completely different ways of looking at the […]

The Last House on Needless Street Explores the Monster Inside Each of Us

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

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In the boarded up house at the end of Needless Street lives a man named Ted who drinks too much and loses time, a house cat named Olivia who sees it as her job to look after him, and his precocious daughter Lauren who never goes outside – not after what happened last time. Ted’s main hobbies are feeding the myriad songbirds who visit the backyard, and playing all the different games that Lauren makes up. That is, at least, until a murderer arrives on […]

Little Humans Have Questions About Death, A Mortician Answers Them

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty

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It’s a legitimate question for pet owners – will my cat or dog eat my body if I die in the house? Or, what actually happens when you’re cremated? Maybe you’re curious why bodies are buried six feet deep? Well, Caitlin Doughty – she of Ask a Mortician fame – has answers for you in this funny and informative book. The series of essays are all answering questions posed to her by children who, for those who don’t know, have a morbid streak a mile […]

Bill Hodges is Back!

Finders Keepers by Stephen King

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Stephen King introduced us to Bill Hodges in Mr. Mercedes, where the retired detective had found himself slipping further and further into ennui, until he received a taunting letter from a person claiming to be the Mercedes killer, a madman who had driven his car into a crowd six years prior killing 8 and injuring dozens more. Finders Keepers brings us back into Bill Hodges’ life, where he works with Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson as private investigators, mostly catching bail-jumpers. Until Jerome’s little sister […]

Take a Small Character from The Odyssey and Make Her Shine

Circe by Madeline Miller

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You know how girls get lumped into groups based on their interests as a child? Like, you had horse girls, or gymnastics girls, or gemstone girls. I was a Greek mythology girl. I inherited my copy of D’aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths from my older sisters and read it so many times it fell apart. When we were assigned The Odyssey in high school, I read all of it. Willingly. And then did it again in college. The Firebrand was one of my favorite books […]



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