Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Still Mine by Jayne Pillemer

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Still Mine by Jayne Pillemer was published earlier this year. I may or may not have reviewed it before, but I know I have read it. And I think I might not have enjoyed it as much last time as this time. It is a solid 3.5 or 4 for its rating. I know many are not fans of that “average 3” but I like to … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:154 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

“Just a splash of whore.”

Hard Time by Cara Mckenna

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A surprisingly deft exploration of what starts out as a forbidden romance between a prisoner and a volunteer prison librarian and tries to expand the conversation to what it means to act ethically and questions whether there is ever one "right" way to act or be. Plot: Anne has been burned badly. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·

And you thought eating pizza was easy

No Ordinary Pizza: A Story about Interconnection by Sara Marlowe

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I almost did not review No Ordinary Pizza: A Story about Interconnection by Sara Marlowe. But just because it was not something I loved, did not mean it was not a book people should not hear about. I would like to qualify my comment of I did not love it by saying, I probably had factors that were in … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:153 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , ·

You will get diabetes reading this

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre

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This book has insta-love and yet I don’t hate it. Miracles do happen. Plot: Danica is a tech witch. So is her cousin and best friend Clementine. They can mess with technology, so what better way to make their money than by opening an appliance repair shop in the small midwestern town their family … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: ·

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous peoples. That is all we ask. And we will settle for nothing less.”

Unsettling Canada by Arthur Manuel

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Much of the material written in the public sphere about Indigenous people in Canada, their struggle, and possible ways forward, are written with a very uninformed reader in mind. Those books are, of course, vital. These are extraordinarily difficult topics with complex roots and very few simple … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

“Imagine ‘Drunk Ikea’ nights. You show your ID at the door, and then they get you plastered in the kitchen section, blindfold and spin you around a few times, and you have to find your way out.”

Even Odds by Elia Winters

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I have no idea how this thing ended up on my TBR, which means it probably came from Reddit, so it has happened. Reddit recommended a book I liked! Plot: Isabel Suarez has been burned. At her last job as a programmer for a video game company, she started dating a colleague, and the rest of the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·


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