Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ugly Love

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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Tate moves in with her brother while she returns to school to earn her master’s degree. She’s not looking for love but meets her brother’s friend and neighbor Miles. They think they have the perfect arrangement with neither looking for anything. They have 2 rules: Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. What could go wrong? At first, all is going well, both are following the rules and have no problems with them. They have to find time to see each other between […]

Damnit, Janet

Now or Never: 31 on the Run by Janet Evanovich

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Every year I start out strong and think, maybe this will be my year. I also am that girl who buys a new calendar every January, uses it until the 11th, and then gives up cause Google calendar is easier. But this year I’m NOT buying a calendar, so…. maybe that’s a good sign? (I mean, it’s only January 1st. I haven’t been to Target yet.) Anyway. Spoilers ahead. Lots. This is the 31st installment of these books, and yes, I have read every single one […]

How about some vintage Nora to start the year off?

Chesapeake Bay by Nora Roberts

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This is actually what I read to end the year because mentally, I couldn’t manage much else. I needed the book equivalent of like, season 7 Law & Order, where I don’t have to pay attention to much except when Lenny Briscoe has a good one liner. And it was available on Kindle through the library, so I could read in bed while awake from 2:30 to 4:30 every morning. Christmas season is tough, y’all.  So’s menopause, for those of you wondering. Anyway, Nora loves a […]

I reach for a water bottle of my own and catch Nikhil watching me, his face thoughtful and open. A mix of recognition and something else. Like he’s saying There you are and Who are you? all in one single glance.

Flirting with Disaster by Naina Kumar

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Naina Kumar’s Flirting with Disaster is an angsty second chance romance between a married couple trapped together by a hurricane. This is a reimagining of Sweet Home Alabama, but set in Houston during a hurricane with Indian American protagonists. I have somehow never watched Sweet Home Alabama, so I don’t know where it tracks and where it diverges. I can tell you that it’s a good read. It’s out January 14. Meena plans to fly into Houston, get her estranged husband to sign the divorce […]

Cannonball in the nick of time!

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

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No matter what the verdict is. No matter how long they would serve. They’re alive. Jawad isn’t. We might get accountability, but it won’t be justice. What’s justice for a murdered kid? I picked this book up after reading Internment, since I wanted more by the author. Also, it was free! What’s not to love about free books? Hollow Fires tells the story of Safiya Mirza, who dreams of becoming a journalist. Through her job as editor of the school newspaper, she has learned that […]

last two! an opioid double header

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Empire of Pain: The Secret of the Sackler Dynasty This is a great (read: infuriating) book, but for someone like me who works in the pharma industry and had a first hand seat to the fall of Mallinckrodt (a similar, less culpable just because of scale player in the opioid crisis) I wasn’t as shocked as some of my friends were by the actions of Purdue through the middle of this book. Besides, things keep coming out about how terrible all of these actors are, […]



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