Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Heading into the Grishaverse

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo

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As someone who fully enjoyed Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern series (and still does), I decided to branch out into other books of hers. I think I literally just went to Goodreads and looked for another Leigh Bardugo series. I was just looking through some people’s reviews of this book on Goodreads, and one specific reviewer that I follow illustrated my feelings about this book. She had trouble getting into it initially, which I also did. I borrowed the ebook from the library, and it went […]

The Great Depression, a Road trip, and Giraffes?

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

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West with Giraffes was my book club’s February pick. I had also been hearing coworkers talk about this so it seemed only a matter of time before I read it. The publishers say the book is “part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story” and I think that’s a pretty accurate description of what this book is about. Set during the Great Depression in the midst of the Dust Bowl, an orphan from Texas makes his way to New York only to find […]

Hockey romance

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

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Inspired by the new, hit television show Heated Rivalry (a show I’ve heard of but not seen), my book club decided to read a random, hockey-themed romance novel paired with a field trip to watch a hockey game. The random, hockey romance novel was not a huge hit, so I decided to skip it and go straight to the source material. When I looked up Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, I discovered that it is actually Book 2 of a series. So, I decided to start at the beginning […]

The Power of Pottery

The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin

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The Healing Season of Pottery was my bookclub’s January pick. The member who chose it is really into cozy fiction and came across this title. This was a new author and title for all of us, but had been recommended by an indie bookstore. Jungmin has had a rough year. She’s had a melt down at her high-pressure job and is feeling untethered to life and society around her. She stumbles into a pottery shop that also offers classes and through these classes she finds […]

Smashing the patriarchy is a brutal business

The Poet Empress: A Novel by Shen Tao

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I picked up this novel based on Narfna’s recommendation, and I’m glad I did. This is an intense fantasy novel about power, magic, literacy and women. And as Narfna says, it is NOT romantasy, no matter how it might be marketed. This is Shen Tao’s debut novel, and she warns readers that it contains violence, sexual abuse, and torture, and some of this involves children. It can be a lot but if you can handle it, it’s worth the ride. The Poet Empress is set […]

“Good God, sometimes it felt like all of society was complicit in trying to make life harder for women.”

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

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3.5 stars Nowhere Book Bingo 26: BIPOC rep by a BIPOC author Reading Rainbow – Orange cover Nikole “Nik” Paterson is bored and uncomfortable at a baseball game with her handsome, if rather self-centred, actor boyfriend, and his bros. She is absolutely blindsided when he surprises her with a public proposal, via the scoreboard, and to add insult to injury, he didn’t even spell her name correctly. Nik is mortified, her boyfriend is insulted by her rejection, and things are about to take a nasty […]



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