Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I’m boxed

Boxed In by Sarah Lynne Reul

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If you are an artist in any way (poetry, painting, sculpture, etc) you probably have had some form of “artist anxiety” (or what I call it). What Sarah Lynne Reul calls it in Boxed In (which honestly is a bit better). Our story follows a young girl who does not want to use her new paint set because what if she makes a mistake? New things deserve perfection.  And she fears making mistakes. Due late February 2027, Reul explores this other kind of “artist block” […]

“She closed the file and looked out at the sea, regarding it with distrust. It regarded her with the apathy of an ancient life source that didn’t really need to feel any particular way about the opinion of a being with a fraction of its size or lifespan.”

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death: A S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery (#2) by Maxie Dara

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Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), as someone assigns the actual Reapers to their files. A job that you might think a little strange for a woman who is terrified as death as she is, but at least Nora’s anxiety is secure in the knowledge that she’s doing everything she can to avoid dying. (The question over whether Nora is living or merely existing with this knowledge is not one that ever flashes across her mind.) See, ever […]

Pairs well with the US Open happening now

In Your Court: Serve or Receive? by Kit Haley

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CBR18 Bingo: Season – Tennis court seasons (hard court, clay, grass, etc…) Miles Callahan and Matteo Russo are rivals. Miles is ranked number four in the world and is America’s next big tennis hope. Matteo, an Australian former teenage tennis phenom, is unranked and is fighting his way back into professional tennis after taking years off to recover from a devastating accident when he was nineteen. To compete at the professional level, Matteo pays his own way and doesn’t have the sponsorship deals that normally […]

Better than the first one

Bridget & Gabe Are Not Okay by Lex Croucher

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CBR18 Bingo: And (literally in the title) Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. I don’t know if Croucher intends this to be an ongoing series, but readers should know that this is book two, and this review is probably going to contain some spoilers for book one, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (which I read earlier this summer, but will not be reviewing because I’m already WAY too […]

Maybe my favourite Jenny Holiday book so far

Book Club Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday

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4.5 stars CBR18 Bingo: Craft (this book dwells a lot on writing as a craft – both novels and screenplays) Thank you to Forever and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Blair Kellermoon (former rom-com star, now powerful producer) has adapted several novels as movies and TV series and runs a book club, and the books she picks usually get huge sales boosts and are again likely to be optioned for adaptation. Suffice it to say, […]

A promising start to a new series

Witch Season by Julia Bianco

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CBR18 Bingo: Refuge (The Aestas coven works hard to be a safe haven and refuge for young witches who have snapped and would normally be ostracised by other witches) Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC. This book is on sale now. There are two types of witches (in this world, all magic users are called witches, regardless of gender). The ones who are born from families with established magic, who grew up as part of a coven, and who are […]



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