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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Cinderella triumphs again

An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

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I’ve watched most of the Bridgerton series, and I generally find it entertaining. So, when the latest season became available on Netflix, I watched the first half of the season–everything that was available at the time. It is a Cinderella story, involving the second-oldest Bridgerton brother, Benedict (the spare). And I really liked it. I thought the chemistry between the two lead actors was great, and I found Benedict to be a charming, charismatic, and funny leading man. I decided to read An Offer From a Gentleman (2001) by Julia Quinn […]

A little self-improvement

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler

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I guess I’ve been on something of a self-help kick lately. My therapist recommended that I read a couple of books, and now Amazon has decided to offer up some more. The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power (2023) by Katherine Morgan Schafler was one of those books. I’ve always had perfectionist tendencies, so when I saw The Perfectionist’s Guide, I thought it might be illuminating. So I picked it up from my library. I was really excited when I started reading this […]

It’s never too late for a comeback

Awake by Jen Hatmaker

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I think I may have first seen Awake (2025) by Jen Hatmaker on NYT’s Best Books of the Year List. I’m a fan of memoirs, and the blurb caught my attention. So, I borrowed the Audiobook from my library and gave it a listen. Jen Hatmaker woke up in the middle of the night in July 2020. Her husband was in bed next to her, declaring into his phone that he loved another woman. At this point, they had five children and had been married for twenty-six […]

Weres and their mates

Mate by Ali Hazelwood

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Shortly after I finished Bride by Ali Hazelwood, the second book in this world: Mate (2025), became available. So, I quickly read that one as well. In many ways, Mate is very similar to Bride in that it is a love story involving weres, humans, and vampyres. We meet Serena at the end of Bride. She is best friends with Bride‘s protagonist, and she’d been kidnapped because she was half-were and half human–something heretofore unheard of in this world. At the very end of Bride, Koen Alexander, the Alpha wolf of the Northwest pack runs into […]

Found family with a little magic

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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I saw A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping (2025) by Sangu Mandanna on NPR’s Favorite Books List. Books with witches and whatnot are not usually my thing, but I’ve found some good books on NPR and I didn’t want to be too close-minded. So, I got the audiobook from my library for a low commitment read while commuting. If I had to describe this book in four words, I would say it is quiet, sweet, uplifting, and funny. At the beginning of the book, Sera Swan is a […]

Opposites attract

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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I realize that Ali Hazelwood does not write perfect books, but I find them highly entertaining and I usually go out of my way to read them. However, I’ve never had much interest in paranormal romance novels with vampires, werewolves, and the like. So, when I first heard that Hazelwood was branching out of her normal STEM romance novels, I figured I would skip them. But then I ran out of things to read, and I decided they were worth a try after all. I […]



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