Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Keep the Lights and all sorts of things going

The Light Keepers by Amy June Bates

Stories by Sea: A Lighthouse Library's Journey by Jessica Iwanski and Angela C. Hawkins

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I remember a book called Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Connie Roop “back in the day”. It was never my favorite book, but I remember it fondly. It was a book about a subject that was the first time I had heard of it. It was about women and lighthouses together and not as the wife of the keeper. Over the years a few more books about lighthouses, lighthouse keeps and female lighthouse keepers came along and found their way to books I had […]

Swordheart: I never thought I would read this many books in a year and I’ve run clean out of taglines

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo: Wealth – The whole story starts with a moderate amount of wealth being left to Halla by a deceased granduncle, and her quest to get it back for the sake of her own nieces. Halla is the widowed housekeeper of Silas, her dead husband’s now-dead granduncle. Halla was, apparently, the only relative that spent much time with Silas because he left his estate to her, much to the chagrin of his nasty blood relatives. They have locked Halla up until she comes to […]

That Darn Cat!

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

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Looking back, the cat should have been enough of a warning sign. The Road to Tender Hearts is about a quirky family road trip where an incredible number of extremely unlikely events occur, and these events somehow serve to bring the disparate members of the family together into a cohesive, loving unit. And there’s also a sentient cat who knows when people are about to die. The action actually starts with the cat, who is one of those nursing home resident cats that sleeps in […]

Kansas City, MO is actually a great setting for a swoony mm fake dating romance

Isn’t He Romantic by Adib Khorram

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For a couple of years, Helena Greer has been telling anyone who will listen that we should read Adib Khorram. I knew she was right. It just took a bit for one of his arcs to get into my hands. Isn’t He Romantic is the third in his Love on the Vine series, and while I’m looking forward to reading the first two books when I have a chance, it’s enough of a stand alone that I didn’t feel like I was missing information. I really enjoyed […]

New Haven is for (Ghost) Lovers

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Galaxy (Alex) Stern sees dead people. And they see her. And sometimes they can touch her, and it’s as horrible as you can imagine. In fact, the first 20 years of Alex’s life have been pretty horrible. Her father has been MIA her whole life. And her hippie-dippie mother, Mira, is well-meaning but completely ineffective when it comes to keeping Alex safe. Instead, Alex turns to drugs; dropping out of high school and moving in with her child predator of a drug dealer boyfriend. Not […]

Sparkling Revenge Romance

Revenge of the Sunshine by Jackie Lau

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I remember the moment I realized some men like it when a woman is mean to them. Zoe, the sunshine in Jackie Lau’s Revenge of the Sunshine, is a little bit mean. Bennett Chung secretly likes it that Zoe bullies him into whimsey. He doesn’t admit that he likes it. You have to pay attention to what he does, not what he says (or thinks). Zoe could have been meaner to Bennett’s younger brother, her ex-boyfriend, and her former best friend after she caught them […]



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