Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“It’s funny. No matter where you go, or how many books you read, you still know nothing, you haven’t seen anything. And that’s life.”

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (#1) by Satoshi Yagisawa

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Behold, the second of two short “ack wait I’m not at my goal” books I read in the past three weeks to try to get to my 52 books a year goal. Am I going to make it? No. But I’ve made peace with it. But onward to the book! Coming in at a mere 150 pages, I came upon this teeny book at a bookstore in Los Angeles (I swear, I just went in to look! I wasn’t going to buy anything! And other […]

Meta-Romcom for the Frustrated Fan of Typical HEA Romcoms

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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The tenth time I laughed out loud reading Book Lovers was the moment I decided it was a 4.5-star romcom rather than a 4. Another that many others have read and reviewed so it’s less important to provide a synopsis than it is to write about how it feels. Here we go: This is a book that, no doubt, has many of us readers of romcoms thinking “How did Emily Henry get full access to my life? Is a reality TV crew following me around a la Ed […]

Double Cannonballing with Book Lovers.

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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I promise I didn’t plan to Double Cannonball with this excellent book, which just so happens to be about books and writing books, and publishing books. It’s just serendipity. I was so happy when I realized about fifty pages into this book that it was going to be another situation like with her first adult romance, Beach Read, where I’m just immediately in love with everything about it. I liked People We Meet on Vacation a lot, but it didn’t hit me in that place […]

Clearly going to be one of my favourite books of the year

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

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You know in a lot of romantic comedies, the hero already has a girlfriend, but she’s stern, and demanding and seems to have absolutely no feelings that don’t revolve around her career and probably living in the big city? The woman who eventually gets left, so the hero can get with the charming, free-spirited, understanding and much more laid-back heroine of the rom-com? Nora Stephens is that woman. She loves her life in New York City, she loves her Peloton bike, she loves her designer […]



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