Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Is a New Yorker in London the opposite of an Englishman in New York?

I'm Only Wicked with You by Julie Anne Long

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3.5 stars Hugh Cassidy is an ambitious man. He knows exactly what he wants from life, he's going to run for mayor of his hometown, from thence devote his life to politics. While his parents may not have been particularly distinguished, they clearly loved one another and raised Hugh and his … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Everything is better with fancy toast

The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary

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I don't review every book I read. I hadn't really planned to review this book because I didn't particularly have anything well formulated to say. But, for some reason, I was looking at the reviews on Goodreads and saw that someone got big mad because Linden and Jasper-Ann are both pansexual. That … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , ·

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

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Imagine this: you and your friends go on a celebratory weekend holiday to a luxurious yet remote retreat. You all go way back: to university, to secondary school, perhaps even before that. Yet inevitably your lives have drifted apart since then. You’ve all grown up, you’ve all changed, which makes … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , ·

Startup Wife

The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam

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Every book probably has a philosophical core, if you look hard enough. The act of writing itself, even a review, even one done without the benefit of the gift for crafting a plot (as mine are), is probably rooted in some sort of understanding of the way the world works. It's all an expression of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

secrets, lies, and lockdown

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

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“Lies are spindly, unwieldy things. Delicate filaments, like bundles of nerves in the body. Easy to twist, hard to control, impossible to keep hold of.” It's already apparent we've got a lot of pandemic media headed our way. All the long-running TV series, of course, tried to grapple with it … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: ·

“we are standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something”

Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

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I still have yet to read Normal People, Sally Rooney's hit novel, or watch its adaptation. I do a lot with Irish literature, but somehow that hype train mostly bypassed me (and I'll be honest, it's probably due at least in part to the snobbishness of the rather arbitrary line between literary and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: ·


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