Cannonball Read 18

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“Good God, sometimes it felt like all of society was complicit in trying to make life harder for women.”

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

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3.5 stars Nowhere Book Bingo 26: BIPOC rep by a BIPOC author Reading Rainbow – Orange cover Nikole “Nik” Paterson is bored and uncomfortable at a baseball game with her handsome, if rather self-centred, actor boyfriend, and his bros. She is absolutely blindsided when he surprises her with a public proposal, via the scoreboard, and to add insult to injury, he didn’t even spell her name correctly. Nik is mortified, her boyfriend is insulted by her rejection, and things are about to take a nasty […]

“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

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Nowhere Book Bingo 25: A Bookish Memoir/biography CBR17 Pie Chart: Education CBR17 Bingo: Citizen (Nafisi lived and taught in Iran during increasingly more dictatorial strictures against its citizens) Official summary: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic […]

“Why do you want my voice?” “Because I’m a sassy sea witch and I’m gonna keep it in a nautilus necklace, then use it to steal your man from right under your nose”

Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

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3.5 stars CBR17 Pie Challenge: Inclusion CBR17 Bingo: Borrow (read through Libby, since I don’t actually own the book) Regina “Reggie” Hobbs is working hard to make her nerdy website, Girls with Glasses, a success, and prove to her over-protective parents that she’s perfectly capable of taking care of herself, even if she’s in a wheelchair. She loves the work, she loves her very capable team, but lately, she’s been struggling with insomnia, and the only thing that seems to soothe her to sleep is […]

Going to Vegas is less fun when you’ve been kidnapped

Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai

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Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Skyline CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge: Diversity Yet again resorting to the official plot summary, because I finished this in mid-April and I just cannot remember all the of details of the plot anymore: At thirty-five, with a stable job as an accountant, Mira Chaudhary wants nothing more than to find a boring man to spend the rest of her life with. Having had enough excitement in her younger days and desperately trying to escape her dysfunctional past, she turns to a […]

A Sweet, Rivals to Lovers Sapphic Romance

Outdrawn by Deanna Grey

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I was looking for a light read between finishing Martyr! and resuming a Robin Hobb book, and this fit the bill. It’s a sweet, sapphic romance between Noah and Sage, two rival artists. They had met in college but hadn’t interacted in several years, though they were well aware of what each was doing on the comic scene, and then Noah gets hired by the company Sage works at. They are going to have to work together as the head artists on a comic rebranding, though neither […]

God forbid the beautiful, eligible daughter of a duke have hobbies

Lady Knight by Amalie Howard

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Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Book by an author you’ve never read Thank you to Netgalley and Joy Revolution for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Lady Zenobia “Zia” Osborn and several of her female friends have started a secret society, calling themselves Lady Knights, and at night, they dress up as highwaymen and rob the carriages of Lady Zia’s brother’s rich friends. They need to collect enough money to ensure the survival of their boarding school, not to mention the orphanage next door to […]



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