Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Part romance, part memoir

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

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Official book description: When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides that if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. Translation: She’s going to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better. That’s where tattooed, motorcycle-riding […]

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”

Tomorow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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CBR Bingo – Hold Steady I don’t know what I thought this book was going to be, but this novel exceeded all of my expectations. Someone who recommended it to me said she could have read 200 more pages and I agree. 300 even. 400! IT WAS SO GOOD. I wanted to follow the characters forever and ever. Weepy Warning – this book brought me to tears, to be clear, I was full-on sobbing to the point that my husband was concerned about me. This […]

Heartbreakers

Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

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But Sigourney Weaver is a murderous narcissist and Jennifer Love Hewitt loves her, hates her, and is terrified by her. Just like the classic 2001 film! Beautiful, accomplished Bea is about to marry the extremely rich man of her dreams and disappear into a life of peaceful domesticity. Her only problem is winning over his protective family who think she’s a gold digger along with everyone else in his upper class social circle who are determined to keep her out. And then there’s the best […]

The Cursed Among Us

The Cursed Among Us by John Durgin

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I am hesitant to be critical of an author via Cannonball unless it’s someone massive like Hemingway, because at that point criticality of the work is like an academic discussion and we need opposing takes. The Cursed Among Us though had several galling mistakes that led me to wonder if the book is self-published. I am not in any way disparaging self-publishing. I think anyone who does that has a tremendous amount of courage and conviction, putting their hard work out for people to see […]

CBR 15 Bingo – Strange Worlds

The Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert

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Yeah, not only am I back on my Monster Smut bullshit, but it’s Katee Robert Monster Smut at that! This is the second book in the A Deal with a Demon series, where human women make a deal with a demon (duh!) to get whatever they want after they serve seven years in the demon realm. In this case, the women are auctioned off to the half-human lords of the different monster realms. They are not allowed to be harmed or coerced into doing anything […]

Most influential murder mystery of all time?

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

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CBR15 BINGO: You Are Here, because I got this book from my local library I have long been a fan of Agatha Christie, and of Hercule Poirot in particular. I’m certain I read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd when I was a young teen, but I didn’t remember anything about it. Granted, it was a long time ago, but given that Roger Ackroyd is considered one of the most influential mystery novels of all time, I was surprised I couldn’t recall any of the details. […]



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