Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Your only chance is to grab hold of happiness when you have it, and enjoy it for as long as it lasts.”

Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson

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Plot: An ambitious young journalist with a secret makes her way across the Atlantic to what she hopes is her big break – reporting on the domestic (i.e. women’s) angle of the growing war in Europe in the summer of 1940.  Her journey takes us on an intimate journey of the war, from the basic ways in which meals were affected by rations to the massive toll of civilian losses during the Blitz to the war zones in France and back. Through it all, Ruby […]

Your identity

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair by Ryan Rae Harbuck

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The title When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair is confusing at first. But once I got into the things, I realized two things. One, there must have been a translation (the flow of the text was off for me, and that’s usually because of a translation) and the second the idea is that the girl wants to be a chair because it is useful, it belongs, it is good. This is compared to how she feels about herself, which is maybe […]

Too many elements at once

Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries

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Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries is in one word, odd. But not in the usual sense of things. The story is straightforward: a person is coming to terms with the changes in their lives, the fact they are not like their siblings as they are the “normal one” (ie: does not have powers) and is trying to deal with headache and heartaches. But there are several places where things fall short of being “smooth” and go into the odd. First, the pages are crowded. […]

Contemporary romance round up – summer reads

Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan

Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria

When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa

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Both Kennedy Ryan and Alexis Daria released the final novels in their latest romance trilogies in May of this year. I enjoyed both but they focused on very different types of characters (oddly enough, it was a flip between the characters they focused on in the second novel – so for Primas of Power, we get the cousin that always did the right thing and played by the rules in book 3 while Skyland explored that character in book 2, and Skyland focuses on the […]

Thank you Dome’ Loki

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Just popping in to say a very heartfelt “Thank You!” to my excellent Book Exchange gifter, Dome Loki for these lovely additions to my TBR! A Deadly Education is new to me, which is exciting, and I’ve loved other books by both Faith Erin Hicks & Rainbow Rowell, so I have high hopes for Pumpkinheads. Great choices! Huge thanks & Happy New Year to DomeLoki & all. 💜 

The Bear Husband

Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

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When The Snow Child came out, I remember being completely blown away by the story – the landscape of Alaska, the characters – everything came together perfectly to create this story. It was such a perfect novel, I am not sure how any author could follow it up. In fact, I am not even entirely sure The Snow Child would still live up to my memory of it if I re-read it now. Overall, I would say this one worked better for me than her […]



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