Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


And isn’t that all anyone is looking for in a love story—a person to keep their heart safe?

Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer

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Anywhere With You opens with Charlie’s husband announcing that he’s leaving her while she’s drinking through a novelty penis straw. The penis straw is significant, the soon to be ex-husband really isn’t, except as a concept. Charlie and her sister, Lauren, grew up in a chaotic household with a father who seemed to like the idea of his family better than the reality of being a parent. He uprooted them, abandoned them, and then returned to repeat the cycle. Their mother seems to have gone […]

Two engaging but not perfect romances

Four weekends and a funeral by Ellie Palmer

In a Jam by Kate Canterbary

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I read these two romances back in March, and for both, I enjoyed them while also not loving them. It mostly felt like nitpicky character reason that did make sense in context but also maybe just went a bit further than needed? 4 weekends and a funeral Alison and Sam dated briefly but ended things on good terms shortly before he died in an accident. At the funeral, Alison discovers that Sam’s parents think she is still the girlfriend and goes along with it at […]

It Starts With the Funeral

Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer

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There’s a moment quite late in Four Weekends and a Funeral that pushed this contemporary romance from a 4 to a 5 star read. For a good chunk of the book, grief and guilt have been bubbling under the surface of Ali’s life. Several things come to a head and she has an emotional moment in The Mall of America, followed by an intervention by her two best friends. Ellie Palmer gives Ali this moment in the aftermath that beautifully captures friendship. We eat too […]



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