Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random flights of fancy. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Sophia's Quick Questions interview.)

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Book 3 of Venin, Love, and Dragons

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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I’ve already spent a lot of time reading the Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros, so I quickly picked up Book 3 of the series when it became available to me. Onyx Storm (2025) continues to follow Violet Sorrengail and her loves and adventures in the Kingdom of Navarre. Violet is still technically a student. She is in her third year in the dragon school that kills at least twice as many people as it graduates. She has been chosen by two very special dragons and […]

I don’t do torture

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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I’ve read Cop Town by Karin Slaughter, which I appreciated for a number of reasons. So when I found Pretty Girls (2016) by the same author under “popular audiobooks” at the library’s website, I downloaded it almost immediately. Slaughter seems to write gritty, violent books, but I was unprepared for this one. Knowing what I know now, I would not have chosen to read it. Although I did finish it, the violence and darkness was too much for me. I did think it was well-written, but I would not […]

Poaching in Yellowstone National Park

The Last Ranger by Peter Heller

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Peter Heller is a local writer who is only one degree of separation away from me: He apparently knows a guy I kind of dated a long time ago. But this slim brush with celebrity is not why I continue to read his books. I enjoy his writing and like his focus on nature. In The Last Ranger (2023), Ren is an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park. He deals with car accidents, campers’ disputes, law enforcement, and poaching. He is a haunted man who hasn’t really […]

Obama told me to read it

The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

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I read The Anthropologists (2024) by Ayşegül Savaş solely because Barack Obama put it on his Favorite Books List. Although Obama and I don’t have exactly the same taste in books, I appreciate that his choices are always well written and thought provoking. The Anthropologists is a short, quiet novel that centers around a young couple in New York City. The two are looking to buy their first home together. Asya first came to the United States to go to college, where she met her husband, Manu. Manu was […]

Another female scientist finds her happily ever after

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

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Ali Hazelwood is an automatic read for me now. I always enjoy reading her books, even when the characters drive me crazy. This is because they are likeable and funny–but in order to make the story work, they can be insanely obtuse when it comes to love. Apparently, I was a little obtuse because I only recently realized that Hazelwood had two new books out. I picked up Not in Love (2024) first, which centers around Rue. Rue is a little atypical. She only has a couple of friends, […]

This cute green card plot has very different connotations right now

Roomies by Christina Lauren

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I now feel like I’m wasting time if I’m not listening to an audiobook while I’m in my car, so I’m always on the lookout for a book that will hopefully work well for listening. I’ve read a couple of books by Christina Lauren (two writing-partner friends who smash their first names together to make one author’s name), so when I saw Roomies (2017) available at the library, I figured I would enjoy listening to it. Unfortunately, this one was not my favorite. There were some good […]



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