Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Sometimes, a book cover promises cats and lies. This book, on the other hand, delivers in spades. SO many cats, guys.

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett

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4.5 stars Nowhere Book Bingo 26: A book involving animals Monthly Keyword Challenge 26: Cat Official plot summary, because I finished this back in February, and my perimenopausal brain isn’t exactly helping here: Agnes Aubert leads a meticulously organized life, and she likes it that way. As the proudly type-A manager of a cat rescue charity, she has devoted her life to finding forever homes for stray cats. Now it’s the shelter that needs a new home. And the only landlord who will rent a […]

Ice Ice Baby

Game Changers (Game Changers #1) by Rachel Reid

Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2) by Rachel Reid

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In Game Changers, Kip Grady works in a juice bar and quietly hates his life when he meets famous hockey player Scott Hunter. Scott comes in to the bar several times and chats to Kip, and it takes Kip a while to realise Scott is hitting on him. The two embark on a relationship and though they get along like a house on fire, Kip wants more: he wants to be out, to be seen with Scott, not hidden away in his fancy apartment like […]

Shenanigans for Grown-Ups

The Break by Marian Keyes

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Every bubble in the galaxy has burst. The million shards of sparkle suspended in the air have turned to wet ash. All the colour has leached away and the world is just grey, grey, grey.  Amy O’Connell is a 44 year old mother of three daughters, married to Hugh. She loves him, but life is a dull and chaotic blur and while she realises that Hugh is struggling after the death of his father, she is blindsided when he tells her he wants to take […]

And Zander knew the world wasn’t fair. Because little miss perfect Penny Becker was still right here. And worse, she was…beautiful.

Honey Bee Mine by Sarah T. Dubbs

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Happy library week! I love being able to check out audiobooks from my local library. I have also come to love the books of Sarah T. Dubb, a librarian by day. Honey Bee Mine has no librarian characters that I’m aware of. It does feature a bee keeper/orchard owner and a restauranteur (person who runs a restaurant). Once again, Sarah T. Dubbs has given us a funny, thoughtful, and sexy book about putting your trust in the right people. The day before I started reading […]

A couple of horror novels to prove I still read books.

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Bad Seed by William March

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The Bad Seed (1954) – 4 stars I’ve been intending to write this review for some time….which means I’m really struggling to dredge up memories of the book. Published in 1954, The Bad Seed tells the story of Rhoda Penmark, an 8 year old sociopath, and her mother, who is uncovering the truth of her daughter’s callous indifference to human suffering. Rhoda murders a classmate over a penmanship award that she felt she deserved, and she would go on to murder the maintenance man at […]

Retelling of an Epic Hindu Poem

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

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I found this retelling of the epic Hindu poem The Ramayana quite engaging. Vaishnavi Patel is trying to explore what led to the actions Kaikeyi took in that poem by adding nuance and a feminist flair, with varying degrees of success. While I haven’t read the original, I looked up enough to know that Kaikeyi plays an important role but not a large one in the original story. In this version, we witness her childhood as the neglected princess among several princes who are more […]



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