Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


More Alien Smut!

(Icehome #4) Angie's Gladiator by Ruby Dixon

(Icehome #7) Nadine's Champion by Ruby Dixon

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Here we go again with blue alien smut! Actually the two main aliens in these two books are red. So we’ll go with red alien smut. I continue to have issues with the “mating is only for procreation” themes in these books, but they’re still fun for me, and like I said in my previous review, I’m a part time escapist! Nothing screams escapist more than RED ALIEN PORN. Sorry, sometimes I go with the more demure “smut”, but it really is basically alien porn. […]

The Never Tell Collection

The Ghost Writer by Loreth Anne White

The Other Side of the Road by Andrea Bartz

Scorpions by Rachel Howzell Hall

Everywhere You Look by Liv Constantine

The Bad Friend by Caroline Kepnes

Jackrabbit Skin by Ivy Pochoda

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OK this whole Amazon Kindle and Audible collection is called “Never Tell”. It’s supposed to be about secrets, lies, and mind games. Sounds intriguing, right? Well some of these six stories were really good – like five stars good. And some of them were “but why?” mediocre. Like “I guess this story had to be told, but why?” I’ll rank them in order from five stars to “but why” (according to me of course). Grace Logan, a successful ghostwriter is lured in by a new […]

Climate change is bad

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

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I do not have this physical book or audiobook, so thank you to whoever this kind hand is! It wouldn’t let me upload the cover from Goodreads for some reason, so here we are! OK so I read this as a suggestion from some website or another because of Earth Day. It was like “climate change books to read” or something benign like that. I was like “oh great, I’d love to have some updated suggestions on how to combat climate change.”   Boy was […]

There but for the grace of god go I

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

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Some of my favorite audiobooks are memoirs that are read by the author, so I tend to look for memoirs when I need a new audiobook for my commute. I had heard of Matthew Perry’s book: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (2022), but hadn’t gotten around to it. Then Matthew Perry died on October 28, 2023 with Ketamine in his system. Although I never followed his life very closely, I was a fan of Friends when I was younger, and I felt I owed it to him […]

“You’re the only person I’m nice to. If you weren’t around, I’d have no redeeming qualities.”

You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

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An attempted When Harry Met Sally for the modern world. It isn’t, but nothing is. Plot: Ari is an unsuccessful comedian who is secretly fucking her roommate when her apparent boyfriend, a spoiled chef named Josh, shows up to make her dinner. They hate each other on sight. They meet again, by chance, over several years, and eventually find friendship, but these two like to throw sticks into their own spokes too much. Shenanigans ensue. I don’t really look into books much, which has come […]

History of the MCU and lessons in chemistry have been taught on audiobook

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards - narrated by Andrew Kishino and Joanna Robinson

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus - narrated by Miranda Raison

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What do MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, a non-fiction history of the creation and rise of Marvel Studios, and Lessons in Chemistry, a fiction narrative of a lady scientist, have in common?  Misogyny and a lot of it. I had the incredibly good fortune to be in Hall H, at the San Diego Comic Con, when the very first footage of Iron Man was shown in 2007 and have been a Marvel Cinematic Universe fan ever since.  MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios came onto my radar from Pajiba, […]



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