Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Life is a series of unlikely events…”

In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

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I love Judy Blume. I love her with the same passion I love Paula Danziger and Cynthia Voigt. Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret? and Blubber remain two of my all time favorite books, and I love gifting Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to young readers. For Pete’s sake, I had a crush on Peter, Fudge’s big brother, when I was about eight. He was my first book boyfriend. But…I didn’t love this book. In the winter of 1952, the small town of Elizabeth, NJ, becomes known as Plane Crash City when three different plane crashes take place […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

“Love is worth everything. Everything.”

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

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I had honestly forgotten that I read this until I saw the preview for the movie version ahead of a showing of Beauty and the Beast a few weeks ago. And my gut reaction to the trailer was more of a “huh, that seems familiar” and less of a “hey, I read that!”, so maybe that tells you everything you need to know about this YA novel. Note: spoilers ahead. Madeline Whittier is a real life bubble girl. She cannot leave the house, and only has her physician mother and a full time nurse as her companions. She longs to […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Home Is Where the Heart Is…

A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

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The library bookstore is my secret addiction. I don’t get to go often (at least, not in my county, what with the powers that be cutting library hours to a ridiculous degree), but when I do go, I load up. And I would say that of the books I pick up, I have about a 50% success rate. I donate the rest back, which results in a vicious circle where I’ve been known to re-buy previous rejects. (Yeah, I know.) Anyway, of that 50% success rate, about half of those are guilty pleasure romance novels that are easily read but […]

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2/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

Even Casper was a more exciting ghost story than this one

The Haunting of Josie by Kay Hooper

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I hate it when I read the blurb about a book and I think it’s going to be one thing, but then it turns out to be totally different, and totally dull. According to the back cover, The Haunting of Josie is about a young woman spending a year in a secluded cabin, untangling the threads of a mystery that killed a man she loved. She’s unprepared for her sexy and dashing neighbor Marc Westbrook, and doesn’t really need the distraction of the tall, dark, and handsome man-next-door, but soon she’ll have no choice but to trust him. So I […]

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2/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

All you need to know about this is that Ranger goes to Disney World

Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich

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Note: Spoilers abound. Are there really spoilers in a Stephanie Plum book, though? I mean, we know that Lula is going to wear outrageous outfits, that Grandma is going to do something wacky, that Mrs. Plum is going to drink a little bit of Four Roses in her iced tea glass, and that Stephanie is going to have some near-death experiences. In installment 23 (are we really up to that number?), we open with Stephanie and Morelli’s relationship status upgraded to engaged to be engaged. Apparently, Joe had some sort of medical thing in the last book which made him […]

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1/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:1 |

A semi-all caps, shouty, ranty (and way too long but I was on a roll) review

Texas! Lucky by Sandra Brown

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From Amazon: The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown’s beloved Texas! trilogy introduces readers to a close-knit family struggling to go on without its patriarch—and to a man in pursuit of an elusive woman who may hold his future in her hands. Charismatic and easy on the eyes, Lucky Tyler is a born rebel. His romantic conquests have earned him his nickname, while his temper gives him his reputation as the family hothead. One night, he gets in a fight over a woman in distress, followed by a night of passion neither of them will […]

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10/20/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:54 |

You always hurt the ones you love the most

The Almost Archer Sisters by Lisa Gabriele

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I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this book. It was…fine? From Amazon (cause I’m lazy): Georgia “Peachy” Archer always thought she was happy with her choices in life: quitting college, marrying young, raising two boys in the same small town where she grew up. But just as Peachy’s life is beginning to settle into a careful routine, her sister’s life begins to dangerously unravel. Beth Archer chose a different life: fancy apartment in Manhattan, fancy friends, making lots of money. She’s been on her own since she was a teenager, and she’s still on her own, outgrowing dress […]

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10/20/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:53 |

Cannonball: “What are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

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Many, many years ago, I read Wally Lamb’s first book She’s Come Undone. I can honestly say that the only thing I remember about that book is that the main character’s mother is killed when a tractor trailer crashes in to her tollbooth. Consequently, I think about that every time I drive through a toll booth. Anyway, when I read it, I happened to live with two other girls, one of whom had had the pleasure of knowing Wally Lamb as a teacher in her hometown, and so for Christmas one year she gave the two of us autographed copies […]

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10/20/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:52 |

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