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She/her. Longtime lurker, goodreads addict :D (Learn more about this Cannonballer: wicherwill's Quick Questions interview.)

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Targeting that local public radio niche audience

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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WHY can’t we get half stars, books like this one are MADE for them. This is a 3.5 star book, or more accurately a 4 star book dropped down to 3.5 because while I will forgive many an implausible plot twist in the service of DRAMA, even I have a limit, and that limit was reached in this book. As I noted to my friend, this book is about 50% a walking talking advertisement for the benefits of having a robust, fulltime HR department. And […]

Disaffected emotionally stunted (Indian-American) manchild??? SIGN ME UP!!1

Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

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Content warning: suicide Second Disclaimer: I am perhaps unduly harsh on books about the Indian-American experience. They are more likely to exasperate me. Not because I think that every book needs to perfectly express my experience–I loved Never Have I Ever, and my experience could not have been more disparate–but because they seem to barely skim the surface of the wealth of experience that I know the #ownvoices author must have. So they don’t come off as insightful to me, the way that Big Bang Theory‘s […]

The journey is the point, not the destination

Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase

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These Chase books are really making me read very quickly, because I have deemed it necessary to read one “normal” book between every one of her delightful tales. That being said, I am sort of at the end of the ones that I’ve stockpiled as being immediately interesting…must regroup. After the wonderful recommendation of Mr. Impossible, my Kindle suggested this novel to me as well. I’ll freely admit to being a bit of a Goodreads snob, and for romance novels I tend to agree with […]

Delight in Violence for sure, but not entirely the book I was looking for

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

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There were things I liked about this book (the fashion! the sombre realities of colonialism!) but they were largely outweighed by clunky writing that’s simultaneously too verbose and too brief. Not to malign youth, but I upon reaching the author bio and seeing that Gong is currently a student at UPenn I definitely had a moment of “ah, yes, makes sense.” These Violent Delights is not, as I initially thought, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet in 1920s Shanghai. It’s obviously not not that (all the characters make an […]

Didn’t even try to visualize anyone other than Chris H as the lead in this one

Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase

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Another Cannonball recommendation by Malin after I expressed how much I liked The Last Hellion! And a shout out to Jen K’s review because yes, Chris H as Rupert. It’s clear that while I enjoy historical romances I really don’t abide period-appropriate restrictions on the heroines. Part and parcel of the enjoyment means having to put up with heros who have a long list of former paramours (and no STIs, magically) and heroines who are hindered by society or petticoats or chaperones and sometimes all […]

A lovely book that just wasn’t entirely for me

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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I feel like a little shit for rating this three stars in the middle of a slew of historical England romance novels that feature colonies as exotic backdrops but I think I can reasonably separate what I think is a moving story from my personal issues with style and choice of medium. I’ve wondered a lot at what we consider “high literature” and what makes for literature vs “easy reading.” I actively try and pick books from both sides of the coin, alternating between the […]



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