Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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As I got older and mercifully more aware of what a precious gift a healthy working body is, I felt ashamed and bewildered that I could have treated mine so badly.

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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CBR18 Bingo: Left – Feeling left behind by friends, by partners, and being unable to achieve the next perceived life milestone that everyone seems to be completing. The transitional state of a long journey has always seemed to me the most romantic and magical of places to find yourself in; marooned in a cozy pod of your own thoughts, suspended in midair, traveling through a wad of silent, blank pages between two chapters. ― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love I gave almost all […]

A High-Heat/Low-Angst Romance for Christmas

Ice & Sweet: An MM Christmas Romance by Charlie Novak

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CBR18 Bingo: Wheels – André and Luke have a meet-cute when André helps Luke change a flat tire. Luke and André re-meet at a mutual friend’s wedding. They were in similar industries when they were younger, but never spent much time together. Luke was a teenage actor who used his acting money to train as a professional baker. André was part of a very popular boy band, and has since transitioned to musical theater in London. When Luke gets a flat tire in the snow […]

Baby, Where the Hell is HR?

The Royal Affair by Kay Thorpe

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CBR18 Bingo: Success – This book is set in the workplace, and both the hero and heroine are very good at what they do. After a failed relationship, Peta has no time or interest in pursuing another – especially not with her new boss at the Royal Hotel, the handsome but infuriating Lee Merril. I work in a similar industry to Peta and Lee, so it was pretty amusing for me to read about them having to deal with some of the same concerns and […]

“She felt she was a bottomless pit of memories, and she was only fifteen. What on earth must it be like when you reached the Duchy’s age? You’d hardly be able to think at all for them; it would be like having so much furniture in a room that there was nowhere left to move.”

Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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CBR18 Bingo: Season – The Cazalets are coming into a new season of their lives with the war on, the youngest son Rupert away in France, and new members of the family being born while others are dying. World War Two is now on, and come crashing into the lives of the Cazalets, a clan of well-off English wood dealers. However, they still have their own domestic dramas to deal with closer at home. This is the second book in the Cazalet Chronicles- I read the […]

Six stories, one War

Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children by Kath Shackelton, Zane Whittingham and Ryan Jones

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This is a controversial start to my review of Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children by editor Kath Shackelton: Yes, I think we need stories about the Jewish experiences of the Holocaust. Yes, we need the children’s stories. And thankfully we can have survivor stories. However, we know those stories. I would love to see more stories about the other people who were persecuted as well. I want a mix of stories as I do not want anyone’s story to be […]

Damian Ad Infinitum

Damsel in Distress by Shannon Drake

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All that heiress Katherine de Montrain wants is to stay in control of her estates and assist her cousin, who masquerades as the notorious Robin Hood. Though she is forced for wed Lord Damian Montjoy for her own protection, she vows she will never submit to him. This is a pretty entertaining historical romance which was originally published in the 1990s. This is a bit of a weird time in the genre, as plots were shifting from the more violent and dubiously consensual bodice rippers […]



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