Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I like Trash… recycled sustainably

Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability by Kate Wheeler

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When I was reading Team Trash: A Time Traveler’s Guide to Sustainability I took a lot of notes, as there were A LOT of details. Things from literally Pompeii to 2021-2022 and how they all relate to sustainability, environmentalism, and the good, the bad, and the really smelly. Kate Wheeler’s story is more than just an environmental story. It shows friendships and how we can work together, get the job done, and learn how the good, the bad and the ugly, or The Pig, the […]

Now I’m curious about book two

Squire & Knight V01 by Scott Chantler

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What do you do when you are looking through your old online reader list (and trust me, it’s a long one as I have some from 2022 still on there), and you find a book you want to read, but are not sure because it is about Knights and you’re think you’ve maxed out your Knights stories for the year (mostly because you are not looking for the Hero story or the Don Quixote story when it comes to knights)? You say, “It’s not like […]

“The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.”

Violeta by Isabel Allende

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This was the library book club pick for the month and my first Isabel Allende novel. I looooved it, but it was a highly contested work at the book club (with many people rating it very poorly), but since this is MY review I’ll defend my position, and (somewhat begrudgingly) give insights into the critiques. This novel reminded Min Jin Lee’s “Pachinko” in its tone and ability to captivate me, and in introducing me to a geography/history that I don’t know a lot about (in […]

“Whether you’re in the curled-in-a-ball stage or you’re just wandering around feeling dissatissfied, resentful, afraid & unsure of yourself, the case is the same: too much listening to your fraidy cat over-analyzing, assumption-making judgmental puddleweed of a mind.”

Whose Mind Is It Anyway? (Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life) by Lisa and Franco Esile

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Due to a random turn of events, my husband came with me to the library to pick up a book I had on hold. I realized though that I in fact did NOT have a book on hold, the library had called me because I had a book overdue. (OOPS: confessions of a delinquent reader, who has a fine-free library). I obviously couldn’t leave empty-handed (I’m not a monster) so I perused the hot picks, the new fiction, but nothing was speaking to me. I […]

Old Devils

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

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The fourth installment of Richard Osman’s hugely successful Thursday Murder Club series find the quartet of crime solving pensioners caught up in the international drug trade. When a friend of theirs turns up shot through the head in his car, Elizabeth, Ron, Joyce, and Ibrahim discover that his antique shop had been used as the drop point for a major shipment of heroin. All Kuldesh had to do was hold the box it was stored in overnight and sell it to the man who came […]

Horny Dragon Book

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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I am very fond of Kit Rocha’s books. When asked what they wanted readers to get out of their books, the two authors who make up Kit Rocha, Donna Herren and Bree Bridges, said hope and joy. I think they deliver. I found them in 2019, and I genuinely do not know how I would have made it through the last few years without the chaotic, supportive, and fiery communities they have built. Their new series, Bound to Fire and Steel, is pure romantasy (fantasy+romance). […]



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