Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Bated Breath

Breathless by Amy McCulloch

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The great irony about climbing the eight thousanders is this: hubris on those mountains will get you killed, but it requires a great deal of hubris to climb those mountains in the first place. Or is that just me? I love mountaineering stories, even though I have zero desire to crawl up one myself. I guess it’s the niche equivalent of watching football rather than playing it. Even if I had had the desire to put myself through something so strenuous, then Jon Krakauer’s Into […]

Animal Prophecy? The Bird is the Word.

The Farseekers by Isobelle Carmody

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Well, that bingo card is keeping me motivated— ‘Part 2’ is sitting right there. And my need to procrastinate from packing and moving. That too. One of the more tricky things about reviewing books from a series is that I’m always wary about giving too much away. I think this will be a constant issue for the Obernewtyn Chronicles, since there are seven  books. So while I’ll try not to reveal too many big spoilers from the current book I’m going over, the previous ones […]

When you reach the part where the heartaches come the hero would be me. But heroes often fail.

Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

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CBR16Bingo: Fiasco We start in L.A. where Mira gets dumped by her boyfriend of six months. They were set up and started dating after their matchmaker, Hema Auntie, agreed to continue to work with Mira even though Mira had rejected the last twelve matches. Afterward, Mira is sitting in her car and attempting to breathe through yet another disappointment when she receives a call from an attorney’s office. This starts a series of events that has her reconnecting with one of her first matches, Naveen, […]

In the immortal words of T. Swift, “Baby, just say yes…”

A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd

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What if Romeo and Juliet didn’t die tragically in that tomb? Instead, what if they remained madly in love and grew comfortably middle-aged together and had a houseful of kids, the oldest of whom is a daughter named Rosalind who goes by Rosie? (Yes, Romeo insisted on naming their first daughter after the girl that he was infatuated with just prior to Juliet.) Rosie, who has just been betrothed for a fifth time to a villain after said villain pulled some power plays and her […]

Not bad for a book that made me almost go tail feather over tea kettle!

Safer Places by Kit Anderson

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My usual library run was happening (I was picking up a couple of interlibrary loans), when I turned and there was this book, on a display behind me, called Safer Places (by Kit Anderson). At first, it wasn’t anything special, its cover was dark and the rest of the books blended in and it was “too close” to the checkout counter. The second time I went in (more interlibrary) I turned and almost ran into that display (I said it’s close) and I heard the […]

When I tell you, when I tell you, when I tell you. 

Guardian by Sara Fields

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Y’all… This warranted an immediate phone call to my former review writing partner, Pattykins. Do you remember several years ago when Patty and I read When Life Happened by Jewel E. Ann and it had such a shocking twist that I set up a separate Facebook group so that we could talk about the twist after you all read it? Guardian by Sara Fields came real close to that level of what the fuck just happened, which I would not have expected at all from […]



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