Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Vengeance is Mine, Sayeth McGee

The Green Ripper by John D. Macdonald

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The Green Ripper finds Travis McGee in a rare state of domestic bliss with the lovely Gretel Howard, unfathomably making concrete plans for the future. Of course, per the rules of 20th century American male-centered fiction, it can’t last. One day at her job at a health resort, Gretel sees a man whom she eventually recognizes as one of the cult leaders who brainwashed her former sister-in-law. Unfortunately for her, he recognized her as well, and a few days she develops a mystery illness and […]

“I’m living in the moment!” Jamie randomly slurted. A cross between blurted and slurred.

Rookie Recovery (Bobcat Boys Book 1) by Lex Easton and Jemma Croft

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I pried myself—however reluctantly—out of his grip. “Yeah, I take it they don’t have Walmart on your side of the pond, but we’re not fucking around here. There is no universe in which that’s hot.” Archie Bowman is a star on the ice. Despite his consistently good performance and continuous improvement as a pro hockey player, he keeps getting traded. When he gets picked up by the Bringham Bobcats, he has a serious case of imposter syndrome. Not only must he perform on the ice, […]

“We had no shield. I had to become one.”

Queen of Exiles by Vanessa Riley

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After the death of her husband and the coup ousting her family from power in the new nation of Hayti, Queen Marie-Louise Christophe and her daughters flee to Europe, where they must learn how to navigate a racist society as Black royalty. I’ve been excited to read this book, because it follows a woman and an area of history I’m not familiar with, and because as a Black monarch, I knew Louise would provide a radically new perspective on the Regency period, which I’ve read […]

“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short”

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Black (a book with a black cover) I had completely forgotten that I read and reviewed this book back in 2016. My original review can be found here. My plot summary of the more than 200-year-old novel can be found in my previous review. Nevertheless, my reading experience this time around was different enough from earlier times that I wanted to write about some of my thoughts and observations, not to mention some of the points of discussion that came up during my […]

No Money, Mo’ Problems

Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

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Margo is a 19-year-old community college student struggling to get by. Raised by a single mother, she waits tables to pay for school and the rent for the apartment she shares with three roommates. She’s also sleeping with her English professor. Margo is basically just drifting through life aimlessly until she finds out she is pregnant. Her teacher/lover, her mother, her best friend and even her absentee father all assume she’ll be getting an abortion, but Margo resists. Frustratingly, the only reason Margo or the […]



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