Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A lovely little book.

Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

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There’s just something about Emma Mills’s writing. I don’t read a lot of contemporary YA because it doesn’t do much for me, but her stuff does. It’s just so lovely and well-written and full of characters that seem very real, and her writing is always funny and addictive. This one also has a fun premise that really called to me. Our main character, Nina, lives with her mom and two sisters in a small Indianapolis apartment. Her dad is a rather famous morning radio host […]

What Would Marie Curie Do?

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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Last year, Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis was the book that jump-started me into reading Romance Novels. I was in a depressive funk, having lost six pets in six months, and reading helped pull me out of it. I voraciously read Hazelwood’s three Loathe to Love You novellas, and pre-ordered Love On The Brain, so I’m not sure why it took me so long to get around to reading it. Since Valentine’s Day is soon, it felt like a good time to pick it up. […]

Two boys, one city, and their places in it

Moonwalking by Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann

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Moonwalking is an interesting story about friendship in early 1980s America. The characters are both likable and relatable, and the (SPOILER) not so happy ending, is a nice change of pace from having it “all be okay” and working out in the best possible outcome.  The tone mostly feels realistic (though I am not sure (SPOILER) if Pie sending his address to JJ would have happened). The supporting cast could have been explored a bit more, but what is needed to promote and support the […]

Edith Wharton (1-4)

Mrs Manstey's View by Edith Wharton

The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton

Afterward by Edith Wharton

The Letters by Edith Wharton

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“Mrs Manstey’s View” “The view from Mrs. Manstey’s window was not a striking one, but to her at least, it was full of interest and beauty” In this first story, we meet Mrs. Manstey, an elderly woman living in New York in a boarding house. She has a room with a tremendous view, and because she doesn’t really want much else in life except to look out of her window, occasionally read or knit, and contemplate life, things are fairly good. She spends a good […]

Yasmina Reza (1)

The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza

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“Bitter. It’s all so bitter.” This is a play from the mid-1990s, and you might otherwise know Yasmina Reza from her play “God of Carnage”, which involves two sets of pretentious upper-class parents duking it out after a playground incident of violence. I have also read her play “Art” which tackles some of the more silly questions related to the contemporary art world. This play only involves two people, passengers on the same train, and is primarily their internal monologues that are dominating their thoughts […]

Maybe Tentacle Porn isn’t all that bad…

An Inheritance of Monsters by Cate Corvin

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2022 was the year I really got into romance novels. I started with The Love Hypothesis, and quickly moved on to smuttier and smuttier books. After binge-reading about half of the Ice Planet Barbarians series, I started reading monster smut and I have never looked back! An Inheritance of Monsters tells the story of Juno, a paranormal investigator with a successful YouTube channel. Unlike most of her male counterparts, she can actually see ghosts. However, until she visits Duskwood Manor, she has never seen monsters. […]



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