Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The princess has been thrown into emotional turmoil again.”

We Swore to Meet in the Next Life and That's When Things Got Weird! (Vol. 1-3) by Hato Hachiya

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I got into grad school, hooray! It is such a relief and as a reward I went and bought myself a bunch more manga. I’ve been eyeing this series at the bookstore for a bit so I treated myself even if I think these are overpriced at $13 each for small volumes. We Swore to Meet in the Next Life and That’s When Things Got Weird! is an isekai style reincarnation romance. Princess Yuko and Harold the knight are in love but can’t be together […]

All I did was phone you. Then be in the same restaurant as you. Then watch you from across a crowded coffee place. Then follow you down a street when it’s getting dark and there’s no one else around and oh okay right yeah I’m seeing it now yep it’s dawning on me…

When Grumpy Met Sunshine by Charlotte Stein

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I don’t even know how to talk about this book. One of the things I loved best about it was the way Charlotte Stein used words to illuminate her characters, but I’m reading an advance reader copy so I’m not supposed to quote from it. I’m going to have to share a quote though because otherwise I’m just going to blather a bunch of dumb words at you. She saw it happen, almost immediately. All in one big rush, like he couldn’t contain it. Her […]

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Except Not So Happy

Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

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The narrator, a young woman whose name we never know, is in a dissolving marriage.  Her husband needs to leave, for unknown reasons.  Perhaps he just needs his own space.  She is not terribly fussed about the situation.  But he feels it incumbent upon himself to find her a new apartment.  Nothing in her price range fits though, and so she finally goes her own way, three year old daughter in tow, and finds her own place without mentioning it to him. This is her […]

Stephanie Plum is back again!

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich

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You know what you’re getting into with a new Stephanie Plum mystery and that’s okay. This time Stephanie has been hired by a local jewelry store owner to find a thief with a missing tray of diamonds. But there’s also another potential thief and more missing jewelry. Of course there’s more to the story. Also Stephanie is dog-sitting for her boyfriend who’s in Miami. And of course there are more bounties out there hunt. The usual cast of supporting characters is here up to their […]

Is the kid traumatized or murderous?

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

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I was excited when I heard about Sarah Pekkanen’s new book House of Glass, since I’d read several of her collaborative novels with Greer Hendricks and found them to be excellent thrillers. I wasn’t sure, at first, how I felt about House of Glass. It took me a few chapters to get into it, and I’m not entirely sure why. But once I did get into it, I was hooked. I read this in a single day, that’s how much I didn’t want to put […]

How to Train your Dragon, but with cursing

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I am a sucker for a good fantasy book in a school setting. I am sure a lot of that is due to Harry Potter, but I think an academic setting provides a good skeleton for a story. They almost always start shortly before a school year, and run all the way until a final exam. I am sure Fourth Wing will invite many comparisons to Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, but it reminded me quite a bit more of The Poppy War by […]



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