Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When the characters get more annoying as they go

Lady X by Molly Fader

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I was so ready for some righteous female rage, and was even enjoying both time lines until about halfway through when everyone started getting a little too insufferable and the story started feeling kind of flimsy or smaller than I wanted. Margot Cooper, the wife of famous Hollywood actor, has made herself into a lifestyle brand, serving as half of a modern day power couple who have it all – two careers in their niches, 4 children, and a loving and supportive marriage. Except, it […]

After a lifetime of throwing away love and affection, maybe he had a surplus, and Caleb was welcome to it.

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

Tommy Cabot Was Here by Cat Sebastian

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian

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Peter Cabot Gets Lost There had been that moment when Peter touched Caleb’s neck before lunch, but Caleb was ninety percent sure that was an accident and that Peter had needed to have about fifteen existential crises about it. Caleb didn’t have the energy to be anyone’s existential crisis. ― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost Peter caught himself staring at Caleb even more than usual, as if memorizing the precise upward tilt of his nose or the degree to which his freckles had multiplied […]

“Fools love to declare that they don’t suffer fools.”

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

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Repulsive, decadent, and entitled people populate these pages and you know what? I do not care! I loved it! I loved it for all of the things that it tries to be, all of the things that it mercilessly tears apart, and all of the things that it will not and cannot be. This is a lightning rod for artists, revolutionaries, trust-fund princes, and girls next door. While this book takes place mostly in the 70s, I felt like I had been a part of […]



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