Cannonball Read 18

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Absolutely do not read this book

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

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BINGO – The Wilds [TW: sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, abuse of a minor, gun violence, language (which I’ve included in white text below)] There’s been some discussion recently on Cannonball Read about how far into a book does one go before giving up. My procedure is to give a a book at least 1/3 of its total page count before giving up entirely. My 11th grade English teacher, Mrs. Julie Cogburn (one of the best I ever had), shared this procedure with us. […]

“Oh my God. My fantasy crush is a gynecologist. My gynecologist.”

Wrong by Jana Aston

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That’s it: that title is the whole book.  Um.  I just… this book.  I don’t even know? Hot guy comes into a girl’s work for coffee all the time. She gets a crush on him.  Then she goes to the gynecologist, and guess what? or more Guess who? “I can reschedule you with another clinic doctor if you’re not comfortable, Sophie.” I’m not comfortable but I blurt out, “I’m fine!” Admitting I’m uncomfortable would be even more uncomfortable. See: That’s pretty relatable, because how do […]

Didn’t work for me, but I think that’s my problem.

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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I needed a break from The Wheel of Time. I know Olivia Dade has been getting a lot of reviews over the last year, so I thought I’d give this one a shot. I told my wife about the book, and she downloaded it from Audible. I’ve had a few semi-successful forays into the world of romantic novels, and I haven’t really found them to my liking. Some I’ve really liked, others have left me reeling with indifference. I think, generally, I tend to fall […]

Too Close to Past Trauma to be Enjoyable

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall

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Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake was not the book for me. I have decided to stop torturing myself and given up mid pudding week. I don’t quite know how to review this book. It was an intensely unpleasant experience for me, but different readers will enjoy it. Though it is very well written and has moments of laugh out loud humor, I struggled with Rosaline and her relationship with Alain. First, she tells him a lie that the reader and Rosaline know will be quickly […]

What’s the opposite of taking it easy? This book is that.

The Art of Taking It Easy by Dr. Brian King

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Dr. Brian King, academic psychologist and aspiring comedian, shares his thoughts on how to live a life with less stress. Overdrive selected this one as their Big Read for the spring. I’m going through a fairly stressful season in my own life, and hoped this would have a takeaway or two that I could use. Y’all. It has been a while since I’ve quit a book so completely fully as I did with this one. How does a book about reducing stress result in a […]

Chosen Ones By Veronica Roth

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

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I unfortunately wasn’t clicking with this book, about 45% of the way through. I think I was, first off, expecting something a bit different? I actually kept thinking about The Hunger Games while reading this, and the other books in the trilogy, as examples of PTSD done really well. Far be it from me to judge the realism of PTSD description, but in comparison to that series, I think Roth misses the PTSD mark and jumps to what reads as moodiness. I think this book would have […]



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