Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Underwear Optional. Stockings Required.

The Case of the Negligent Nymph by Erle Stanley Gardner

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cbr18 bingo Steal So Perry Mason, well known lawyer, just happens to be paddling a rented canoe, late at night, past the well-fortified retreat of a very wealthy local businessman.  And since Della isn’t with him, it’s not a romantic moonlit cruise.  Suddenly, a young woman, naked except for a pack attached to her back, swims past him and hops up on the shore.  Casually, she pulls out a towel from her pack, dries herself and slips on a slinky evening dress from her pack, […]

Just can’t get enough

The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Volume 3 by Beth Brower

The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Volume 4 by Beth Brower

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Volumes 3 and 4 of The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion continue to delight. These volumes take us through summer and fall of 1883, as 20-year-old Emma continues her fight to maintain ownership of Lapis Lazuli house. At the same time she must endure her obnoxious cousin Archibald and her domineering aunt Eugenia, as well as an unwelcome suitor with big ears and dull interests. Emma, however, is not one to mope and mourn her fate. She leads a rather independent life for a […]

Let’s watch June’s life unravel!

Sunflower Season by Danica Nava

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Danica Nava is so good at dropping readers right into the main character’s mental crisis. At the beginning of Sunflower Season, June Walker thinks she has everything under control. She has a soul sucking, but financially rewarding job. Her entire life is centered around that, except for the app she designed to encourage her to develop a little work life balance. Her virtual garden app is the clue that June does not want to be at a tech company in San Francisco. Danica Nava yanks […]

Short, Sweet and Quick

Last One Picked by Audrey Meeker and Sarah Davidson

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Novel Retelling of Little Women (Classic Graphic Novel Remix, Volume 1) by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo

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Recently I have read a couple of short graphic novels that are good, but hard to write a full review on, so see below two Short, Sweet and Quick Reviews Last One Picked by Audrey Meeker and Sarah Davidson is a cozy read, realistic, but has a happy ending. (out October 2026, I read via an online reader copy.) This graphic novel hits home for me. I was “that girl.” The one picked last because “a girl who looked like me couldn’t play sports.” And […]

I love when a book finds love. But I just couldn’t be the one to give it.

Rowan & Neil, #1 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon,

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Once in a while I want to take a book and toss it across the room. Sometimes that is not a bad thing. It means that it is something that made me really think, made me go oogy, but I know that it was something that was amazingly powerful and needed to be read. MAUS and MAUS II by Art Spiegelman were both like that. But Rowan & Neil, #1 Today Tonight Tomorrow was not. Rachel Lynn Solomon, I am sure you are a very […]

I meant to post this in October

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

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In September, I was going to read two books for a reading challenge, but it took so long to obtain them, the month was almost over and I didn’t have time to really start reading. But since I had them, I figured I might as well read. Between the two, they have themes I don’t usually read (romance and/or contemporary novels) so why not step outside my usual read? I picked up one, then the second one, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen […]



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