Cannonball Read 18

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Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

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Come and Get It, by Kiley Reid takes place over one semester at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Most of the book takes place in the scholarship/transfer student dorm there. And the main cast of characters includes a few RAs and residents of the dorm, as well as a visiting professor/writer from the north. I know this book won’t be for everyone, but aside from a couple of issues, it was very much for me. One, I found much of the book to be […]

Charming, but incomplete

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol.1 by Beth Brower

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This was a book club read that I probably wouldn’t have read on my own, if only because it’s part of a series with 8 books in it, and that is too large a commitment for me. However, it was charming and witty, and I’m glad I read it. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion is written in the form of fictional diary entries by the titular characters. Set in London at some time in the 19th century, it tells the story of twenty-year-old […]

Love is in the Cards

Heart the Lover by Lily King

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I don’t remember a ton about Writers and Lovers, Lily King’s prior novel featuring the protagonist Casey Peabody. Heart the Lover starts before the events of Writers and Lovers and ends after, making it sort of a prequel and sequel in one. At the start, Casey is a university student, majoring in English and working her way through college after giving up her scholarship by quitting the golf team. She meets two brainy, literary boys in Sam and Yash, best friends who live together in […]

No Sir, I Just Didn’t Like It

Flesh by David Szalay

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More often than I’d like to admit, on a Friday night, I’ll turn on the Sportsball, and enjoy some bubbles and a packet of potato chips for dinner.  Compelling eating – once you pop, and all that – but ultimately nutritionless, completely bad for me. I consumed Flesh over the course of a late afternoon, all in one sitting, not unlike those potato chips.  I walked away feeling the same dearth of depth and sustenance.  I’m struggling with how to approach reviewing it, because I […]

It’s Not That Deep, Except That It Is

Female Fantasy by Iman Hariri-Kia

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Last week I sat down to read Iman Hariri-Kia’s new novel, Female Fantasy. I stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it, and I don’t want to review it so much as just hand it out. You get a copy, and you get a copy, and you and you and you get copies. Everybody on BookTok gets a copy. Most importantly, everybody who’s ever looked down their nose at romance in general or romantasy in particular gets a copy.  Everyone can read it, have whatever […]

Up in the Air

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

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Marian Graves and her twin brother Jamie get off to a rough start in life, with their sea captain father going to jail for rescuing them and himself instead of going down with the ship. Sent off to live with a drunken painter of an uncle, they grow up largely independent, wandering the hills of Montana. Marian’s path in life is sealed after she sees a barnstorming plan fly over her head one day while she’s wandering through the woods. Determined to fly, Marian works […]



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