Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Girls Just Wanna Have . . . Fun?

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

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Think Charlie’s Angels facing their sunset years.  Far more deadly and ruthless than Farah Fawcett and her pals though, and there is four of them.  And to celebrate their retirement, the Museum (their employer) is sending them on an all-expenses paid cruise.  Hmmm.  Doesn’t really seem like the sort of thing an assassin agency would do. And of course it’s not.  The crew seems oddly muscular, and Kevin can’t be trusted in the least.  Especially since Billie recognizes him as a fellow agent actually named […]

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The Female Man by Joanna Russ

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“I was born on a farm in Whileaway.” I was thinking how funny it would be for someone to write a book called “The Male Man”. I have no idea what it would be about, but it would make me laugh. This book also makes me laugh because at times it’s downright hilarious. It’s hard to exactly capture the structure of this book, and a plot description sort of oversells how much “happens” in this book. Instead the book is a lot of other science […]

I could’ve gone a lifetime of tomorrows without reading this book…

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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What better way to kickstart 2023 than to read what every outlet, including Book of the Month (which I received the book from), named as their book of the year? Well, having now read it, I wish I’d instead continued to put it off until tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. The first half of the book was passable enough, I thought, but that the most positivity I could manage then, and I feel misguided being even that positive in hindsight. Yesterday, I woke up sick […]

Fast moving and packed with revelations Another Day is a worthy follow up to The Wicked Years.

The Oracle of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire

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Is the Past Written in Sand or Stone?

Saving Her Highland Traitor by Maeve Greyson

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: Different (sub)genres #1 After Mira and her godson Robbie travel back in time to 18th century Scotland, they settle into a content life with Clan MacDonald. But when Mira realizes that the chief, Teague, is destined to be executed before the end of the year, she becomes determined to avert his fate. Time travel historical romance is a niche genre that I’ve had very little exposure to. I enjoy straightforward historical romance, but the fish-out-of-water aspect of it, as well as the […]

“I’m not holding you against your will; I’m holding you against your car.”

Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books recommended by friends #1 When a list of attributes that “Mr. Perfect” must have goes viral, the worst that the four authors think will happen is some unwanted publicity – but they realize that things can get much worse as someone begins picking them off one by one. I picked this book up on a whim – I’d never read this book before, but one of my Goodreads friends reviewed and it seemed like a fun read. Most of the romantic […]



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