Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

At least it was free

Jack and Andrew: Hope (A Southern Thing) by Samuel York

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CBR15bingo: Strange Worlds square – Evangelical Christianity in America and pray the gay away Jack is what his father calls “a man’s man.” Jack is the son of an evangelical Christian preacher and the oldest of ten children. He is terrified of his father and doubly terrified of what his father would do if he ever finds out that Jack likes guys. Jack’s youngest sibling, Billy, loves dressing up in girls’ clothes, wearing his mother’s pink lipstick, and playing ballerina. Jack watches over him, constantly […]

“You wish you had a do-over?” she asks. “Tell me, what would you do if you had another chance?”

Four Weddings to Fall in Love by Jackie Lau

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Max is the oldest of the Mok brothers. He’s a relationship guy, and a bit starchy. After some bad experiences, Kim doesn’t do relationships. They are going to see each other at 4 weddings over a few months. Three of Max’s cousins are getting married in one summer. Kim’s mother and Max’s aunt are good friends. Not only are they going to be at three wedding together – both their families will be there too. (I would put a cry/laugh emoji or gif here.) At […]

CBR15 Bingo: Strange Worlds

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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CBR15 Bingo: Strange Worlds 15-word-review: Delivering food during the pandemic leads Jamie Gray to a monstrously exciting new career opportunity. Longer review: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jamie Gray is working a dead-end job as a delivery driver for the very same company he got fired from. One day, when delivering food, Jamie runs into an old acquaintance, Tom, who remembers that Jamie’s thesis was on science-fiction and therefore thinks the job opportunity that KPS, the “animal rights organisation” that Tom works for might be a […]

Agony

Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

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I pushed through and read Stella Maris, the companion novel to The Passenger, because it looked like a quick read due to its page count and the fact that it was all dialogue. The novel focuses on a series of conversation between Alicia Western, mathematics prodigy and sister of The Passenger’s protagonist Bobby Western, and her therapist. Alicia has checked herself into an institution where she had previously been involuntarily admitted. Her brother is in a foreign hospital in a coma and his chances aren’t […]

Love Triumphant and a bit with a dog

The Anti-Hero by Sara Cate

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Okay, so, some of you may remember that I reviewed Purity by Skyler Mason several months ago and that I was… not impressed. Purity was supposed to be spicy romance about someone who was recovering from growing up in purity culture. It wasn’t particularly romantic or sexy or spicy or even a good deconstruction* (see definition below) journey.    Today, I stumbled upon The Anti-Hero by Sara Cate. It is everything that Purity’s author wanted that book to be, but on steroids. It is filled […]

Orochi Vol. 4

Orochi Vol. 4 by Kazuo Umezz

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Orochi Vol. 4 continues the anthology tales of Orochi, the strange and supernatural woman who inserts herself into the difficult lives of the people around her, sometimes introducing extra havoc, but always trying to help the best she can. In the first story, Eyes, the main character is blind and bears blind witness to a murder by a local mobster. Terrified, she tries her best to help, but nobody believes her apart from the young boy who helps her with errands. It’s a tense read, […]



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