Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This way lies madness. And it is glorious.

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon

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Y’all. Y’all. Y’ALL. I really don’t know where to start with this one. At the beginning, I suppose. I have recently fallen down the rabbit hole that is TikTok. It took awhile for the algorithm to figure me out, but eventually it got me to BookTok. Specifically SmutTok. It was here that I first heard of a novel by Kathryn Moon entitled A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor. I cannot believe that I am about to type this particular combination of words, but here goes: For […]

“Nothing is inevitable, and you always have to go back farther than you expect.”

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

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CBRBingo: They/She/He – Non-binary author On their podcast Our Opinions are Correct, Annalee Newitz describes themself as a “science journalist who writes science fiction”. I love the podcast and the novels of their co-host and life partner Charlie Jane Anderson, so I thought it was time to check out Newitz’s work for the They/She/He bingo square. Timetravelling, feminist science fiction is most definitely right up my alley.  The world of this novel is a sidestep from our own, much the same, but clearly on a different timeline.  […]

The Perfect Marriage: Meh.

The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

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Meh. That’s about my whole review.  But in the interest of following CBR rules, here we go.  Adam and Sarah Morgan are a couple in crisis. They are growing apart thanks to Sarah’s demanding job as a lawyer and Adam’s failure to publish a quality follow-up novel to his first one. And Adam is having an affair. But when Adam’s lover is found dead in the Morgans’ beach house, he is the prime suspect.  Sarah runs herself ragged as she tries to both keep up […]

For Three!

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht

Never Easy, Never Pretty: A Fan, A Team, A Championship Season by Dean Bartoli Smith

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Knocked out three books this weekend, all of which I enjoyed to varying degrees…   The Book of Three A cute, charming fantasy novel. Perhaps a little too derivative of LOTR (the wolf-like character might as well have been called “Gollum”) but still entertaining and occasionally refreshing when compared to the rest of the genre. I also enjoyed a compelling female character that had autonomy without having to be everyone’s Hashtag Badass Woman (in other words: I appreciate a male writer who can write a […]

Breaking ice and barriers

Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones by Ngozi Ukazu

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cbr13bingo Sportsball  This time around Ngozi Ukazu is heavy on relationship status and less focus on hockey in Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks & Scones. Bitty and Jack now have a relationship that is never totally fleshed out but is presented with the “highlights” of events. Jack has his hockey career, Bitty has his last few years of college, hockey, vlogging, and baking. Yet, the two must deal with the ups and downs of one being openly gay, in a welcoming community and the other […]

Okay, but absinthe in a cupcake? Skeptical.

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

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On a fictional British baking show with three judges, Sylvie Fairchild works her magic with cake and frosting. At least, until the week one of her fanciful cakes assaults one of the judges, Dominic De Vere, and the two fall madly in love. Sort of. There’s a little bit of story between the beginning and the end. Sylvie and Dominic are not quite enemies. Though their rival bake shops are across the street from one another, they aren’t competing for the same customers. Dominic is […]



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