Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


More Murder, Less Family Drama Please

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

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Decades after the heiress Ruby McTavish was kidnapped as a toddler and dubiously recovered a year later, her adopted son Camden and his wife Jules return to her ancestral home in a bid to claim her long-neglected inheritance. This book draws inspiration from several cases in the early 20th … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

A family can be two sisters, one of those sister’s descendants, two other sisters, a magic whale, a sentient island, an omnipotent museum, and academic papers

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta

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I almost reread Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta two or three times during my first and only read. Every 20ish pages, I thought what I just read revealed that I was reading something totally different from what I thought. So I started again. Eventually I gave that up. Mostly. It stars two sets … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: ·

Could Not Stop Reading It

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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Rating: 4.5 In a nutshell: Natalie is a tradwife influencer with five kids and one on the way. She lives on a farm and posts on social media about her life (keeping the two nannies and many farmhands off screen, of course). One morning she wakes up and finds herself still on the farm, but her … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Fiction · Tags: ·

The (No Spoilers) Spoils of Poynton

The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

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The Spoils of Poynton … should have been a short story rather than a novel. One can (almost) see the whole plot in the first few chapters. The simple set-up is this - Mrs. Gereth has lovingly and carefully collected art and antiques her entire adult married life with her husband. After his death it … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:1 · Genres: Book Club, Featured, Fiction · Tags: , ·

Lots of cat pictures and cat things

Cat by Leila Jarbouai, Hannah Shaw, Phaidon

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This one I picked up for the cover. Cartoon style black cat curled up, title simply “Cat”. It’s an art book, over 200 pages of cats in painting, photograph, wood cut, and objects over time. Each page has an image and the museum description (although not always where the original currently lives). … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:19 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Late to the Party and Leaving Early

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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For some unknown reason I suddenly started seeing a lot of junky AI images, reels, and posts about the ACOTAR series, likely something to do with the recent announcement of two more books to the series. I have never read this series. I figured I pick up the first one to see. Verdict: I can see … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: , , , , , ·


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