Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Even as a small child, nothing pleased her more about their travels than the ride home”

The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik

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The Tall Pine Polka is my final book for Re-Readathon 2026 – a comfort re-read and a book I annotated. It had been a long time since I had read this last, since 2013 in fact. My experience this time wasn’t quite the same as it had previously been. I remained mostly interested in the interpersonal relationships of the denizens of the Cup O’Delight cafe, especially the ones between Fenny, Lee, and Bill. But this time some of the hiccups of this book being published […]

The conundrum of the NetGalley arc – a good book that I’m not feeling right now

Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe

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I ended up dnf’ing Mallory Marlowe’s Entities to Lovers a little over the halfway point and I’m feeling a lot of mixed feelings about it. There’s quite a lot I liked about the book, but it was also frustrating. There was enough that I liked that I’ll probably pick up Marlowe’s other books. I might come back to this one later. On the plus side, it’s clever, funny, and has a supernatural take on chronic depression that I’d love to dig into another time. Rory […]

Captain Superman

Huck Volume 1: All-American by Mark Millar and Rafael Albuquerque

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If Superman was a smidgen less Super and more Man, but still had powers and Captain America had no Captain in his name, but still had a really big heart, pumped gas for a living and was not the smartest cookie in the container, you would have Huck Volume 1: All-American by Mark Millar and illustrator Rafael Albuquerque.  The character of Huck is a bit of a clique. He is nice, sweet, good looking, not too bright but has a giving heart. He’ll find things, […]

Eliza and James, sitting in a tree, M-U-R-D-E-R-I-N-G

How to Kill Your Rival by Effie Campbell

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3.5 stars Thank you to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this ARC. This has not influenced my review in any way. This book is on sale now. Eliza Hamilton (yup, that is her name; not sure if the author is a fan of the musical or if the name is a coincidence) is the heir apparent to the Death Council, a secret organisation full of hired killers. While her father is battling cancer, she is to lead in his place, but most of the other […]

Grumpy and Sunshine, now with forest fires

Love in the Time of Wildfires by Janine Amesta

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Thank you to Janine Amesta for an ARC of this book. It is on sale now. Firefighter Logan “Sonny” Sonelli is a Sierra Hotshot, working hard both to prevent and fight disastrous forest fires. During “fire season”, he knows that he can’t really make any plans; he and his team could be called away at any moment. It’s an unreliable life, and difficult to combine with family life. His marriage dissolved because of it, and he is neither looking for nor expecting to find another […]

Books can have legacy sequels too, right?

Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger

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This was an ARC. Thank you to NetGalley and Hanover Square Press. My opinions are entirely my own. This book is on sale now. In recent years, legacy sequels, coming out several decades after the previous movie, have become popular. Some are surprisingly great, like Creed and Blade Runner 2049, while others make you wonder why they exist in the first place (The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Practical Magic 2: Family Legacy, to name two that I watched over the summer). Life Out of […]



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