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A very lovely romance about two complex people on the search for belonging

Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

May 12, 2023 by Malin 2 Comments

4.5 stars 15-word review: Trying to get some direction in her life, Georgie turns to a new-found teenage journal Longer review: Georgie is feeling adrift. She’s worked as a personal assistant for a number of industry people in L.A, and was really good at it. Now, however, her former boss decided to retire to the countryside and doesn’t need a P.A. anymore. Georgie is free to go home to her family to realise her own dreams, the only problem is, she has no idea what […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, abuse, CBR15, Contemporary Romance, friendship, Georgie All Along, Kate Clayborn, Malin, small town life

Malin's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, abuse, CBR15, Contemporary Romance, friendship, Georgie All Along, Kate Clayborn, Malin, small town life ·
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My thoughts, two months later.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

July 12, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

. . . which are not many. I’ve honestly been wanting to read one of Malinda Lo’s books for years now, but never got around to it. After having finally done so, now I’m not sure if I’ll be reading more . . . maybe the queer Cinderella retelling (Ash, I think?). This was well-written and I liked it, and the premise is well-thought out and a bunch of other complimentary things . . . but this was just a good read for me, not […]

Filed Under: Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, historical fiction, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, LGBTQIA, Malinda Lo, narfna, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:101 · Genres: Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, historical fiction, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, LGBTQIA, Malinda Lo, narfna, Young Adult ·
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Growing up is hard to do

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

July 4, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Official book description: Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father–despite his hard-won citizenship–Lily and Kath risk everything to […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, 1950s, cbr14, coming-of-age, historical fiction, LGBTQIA, Malinda Lo, Racism, Young Adult

Malin's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, 1950s, cbr14, coming-of-age, historical fiction, LGBTQIA, Malinda Lo, Racism, Young Adult ·
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Douglas Adams was brilliant and gone too soon

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

May 22, 2021 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

I don’t remember the first time I read, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HGttG), I suspect sometime in middle school.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read it since.  HGttG is probably responsible for much of my sense of humor.  When Adams suddenly passed away in 2001, I felt a profound sense of loss, he was brilliant, ahead of his time, and his writings (fiction and non) were so very funny.  Every so often it will pop into my head, “What would Adams think […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, All Ages, CBR13, comedy, Dome'Loki, douglas adams, Fiction, humor, SciFi

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, All Ages, CBR13, comedy, Dome'Loki, douglas adams, Fiction, humor, SciFi ·
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ScoobyDoo for grown ups but not quite enough

Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega

March 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

So I’ve been wondering for a while why it seems to be that there can’t be ghost stories for grown-ups that don’t involve detailed often gory horror and/or a lot of unnecessary personal (self-inflicted at least partially most often) angst or troubles. Seannan McGuire’s Ghost Roads series comes close, but that’s only 2 (as of right now) books. I fine with tension and spooky and supernatural, but so much of what’s out there right now is too far into the brands of horror that I […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Children's Books, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, alternate history, Claribel A Ortega, fireflies, ghost hunting, Ghost Squad, ghosts, magic, middle grade, st augustine fl, Young Adult

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Book Club, Children's Books, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, alternate history, Claribel A Ortega, fireflies, ghost hunting, Ghost Squad, ghosts, magic, middle grade, st augustine fl, Young Adult ·
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Not as good as her last one

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

December 10, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent’s half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune Logistics, sees the note from […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, cbr12, Emily St. John Mandel, literary fiction, Malin, The Glass Hotel

Malin's CBR12 Review No:80 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, cbr12, Emily St. John Mandel, literary fiction, Malin, The Glass Hotel ·
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