Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I devoured this whole trilogy twice in 12 nonconsecutive days

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

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I received Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries in our family Winter Solstice book exchange but didn’t start it until the end of January.  It was so engaging I blitzed through it in two days.  Having enjoyed it so much it was immediately re-read.  The re-read took only two days as well.  This same pattern was repeated when reading Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands and Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales.  Fortunately, I discovered this series at the perfect time.  Books one and two were already […]

Excellent Use of a Great Dane in Romance, The Rest Was Good.

Back After This by Linda Holmes

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Linda Holmes is probably known to many of you out there in internet-land for her work on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour or her first two books, Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo. This is not where I know her from – I am familiar with Holmes through her guest appearances on the Screen Drafts podcast. When she was last on for their 90s Sports Movies draft her next book Back After This came up and I was intrigued. Intrigued enough that I requested […]

What Do We Call This Genre? Backwoods Fantasy?

The Dragon Kings of Oklahoma by Ferrett Steinmetz

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I have to thank RouletteGirl and their review for putting The Dragon Kings of Oklahoma on my radar! The review alone really sold me on it, but I also have to give some credit to the cover –  which is amazing and tells you exactly what you are in for.* What happens when dragons turn up in small town Oklahoma? Tyler “Daisy” Collins isn’t your typical fantasy protagonist. In his own words, he’s “a six-two shithouse of aging muscle, a fine mullet planted beneath an […]

Weddings: a Bit of a Faff

Husband Material (London Calling #2) by Alexis Hall

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In Husband Material (predictably the sequel to Boyfriend Material; number three in the series, Father Material, is still pending), Luc and Oliver are still a happy couple. They are thirty-ish, and anyone who is thirty-ish will remember that that is the age at which one seems to have a matrimonial or matrimonially-adjacent activity seemingly every week. There are four in this book. There is also a funeral. The sequence of events naturally leads Luc to the question whether or not he should propose to Oliver. […]

My second marriage pact romance in less than a month

Two Friends in Marriage by Jackie Lau

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Disclaimer! This was an ARC sent to me by the author. My opinions are my own. During the Covid pandemic, it becomes very obvious to both Evan Mok and his friend Jane Yin how lonely they both are and how much they wish they had someone to share their lives with. They agree that if they are both still single after Jane’s thirty-third birthday, they will get married and buy a house together. By the time Jane’s birthday has passed, neither of them is in a […]

“Four legs good, two legs bad”

Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Banned Book Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Cover featuring an animal On Manor Farm, somewhere in England, an old boar gathers all the animals in the barn and makes a powerful speech about how animals suffer at the hands of humans and should rise up and take power for themselves. Shortly after his death, the animals of Manor Farm do just that – they violently fight back when Farmer Jones and his farmhands try to control them and chase the farmer, his […]



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