Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Come on, what’s a farewell threesome between friends?

One More Gift: A spicy snowed-in novella by Holly June Smith

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CBR18 Bingo: And – Saskia gets both her ex and her new love. Saskia is eagerly awaiting the arrival of her one-time-college-hookup-turned-best-friend Henry. She’s decorated her English country cottage for Christmas, and Henry is arriving from New York to spend the holidays with her. Saskia is going through an amicable divorce with her husband, Casper. She and Henry have decided to give romance a chance since they have always loved each other and feel safe with one another. Moments after Henry arrives, a second pair […]

When someone tries to put all their ideas and research into one novel

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

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Bingo Square: Justice (there’s systemic oppression, a character unjustly punished for crime, ideas about legality vs morality) Southern Lit Book club is starting back up for the fall session and this was the first book. While I enjoyed The Help when it came out, I also think the later critiques were valid, and wasn’t exactly in a huge hurry for this one but book club was a nice excuse to read this. And it’s a bit of mixed reaction – it’s fine but I was […]

There are only two kinds of story worth telling: the ones that send children to sleep, and the ones that send men to war. I need the second.

The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow

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Well good thing there was a bingo square for ‘Craft’ this year, because I have not read a book as well crafted as The Everlasting for a very long time. Alix E. Harrow has always been an ambitious writer, but here she really exceeds herself. The Everlasting is, at its core a love story, but I’m sort of reluctant to categorize it as just a romance; it’s so, so much more. Around it’s romantic core, it is a story about the power of myth-making, nationalism, […]



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