Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Shooter’s Sister

The Shooter's Sister by Paige Dearth

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Raven and her twin brother Matthew are born into poverty. Their parents are young, accidentally got pregnant, and don’t have much of a support system. Raven is born beautiful, and Matthew is born with dark eyes. This right away scares their mother, Ellen, thinking something is wrong with him. She suffers from postpartum depression. Their father tries to give his children everything he can, having a neighbor watch the children during the day so he doesn’t have to worry about them with Ellen.  After years […]

Unhappy families …

The Dutch House by Anne Patchett

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This was a selection for one of my book clubs – even though this isn’t the kind of novel I tend to gravitate towards, I was the one that added “something by Anne Patchett” to our list of potential book club reads because she owns a local book store. Another person then mentioned this one as being on her TBR, so the decision was made. I have heard that the audiobook is worth a listen because Tom Hanks narrates it. I enjoy audiobooks but often […]

Final Destination

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

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I’ve been a fan of Liane Moriarty ever since I got sucked into reading Big Little Lies back in 2015. When I saw that she had a new book out, Here One Moment (2024), I knew I was going to read it. Unfortunately, Here One Moment, is my least favorite of Moriarty’s novels. It’s not bad, but it did not live up to my high expectations. Fortunately, it did get better once I got past the beginning of the novel. On a delayed flight from […]

We finally get Alice and Blackwood’s story

My Inconvenient Duke by Loretta Chase

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Nowhere Book Bingo 25: A book that takes place entirely outside the US Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. My views are my own. Spoiler warning! Because some of the issues I have with this book can’t really be addressed without me spoiling some parts of the plot, skip the parts of the review on my website that I’ve marked with spoiler tags until you’ve actually finished the book. While this is the third book in the series, most of the action takes place […]

I’m glad the author is enjoying international success

Stargate - en julefortelling/Brightly Shining by Ingvild H. Rishøi

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Nowhere Book Bingo 25: Local author (the story takes place about 15 minutes from where I work) The full review of this on my blog contains spoilers so if you don’t want to know how the book ends, and why I can’t rate this book higher, skip the paragraphs I’ve highlighted. Ten-year-old Ronja and her sixteen-year-old sister Melissa are used to disappointments, living alone with a father who only occasionally sobers up long enough to hold down a job for a month or two. They’re […]

An Odyssey Through Horror and Sanctuary

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad was the kind of five star read that made me adjust the rating of an earlier review, because I realized Whitehead’s book was so much stronger. So I went back and re-ranked the previous book as four stars–still very good, but not the same experience. The Underground Railroad follows Cora, a slave during the pre-Civil War era. In the beginning of the book, Cora is a slave on a large plantation. Her mother Mabel was the only slave on the […]



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