Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Kissing book round up

Roomies by Christina Lauren

American Royals by Katharine McGee

Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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Ordered from meh to wow! (3 stars) Roomies by Christina Lauren So this was probably the first Christina Lauren that I didn’t particularly enjoy. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as good as the others I’ve been devouring this summer. A certain amount of disbelief must be suspended when reading book like this, so I didn’t mind the set up in the beginning — I just wasn’t all that wild about how it ended. “Is Jeff right? Am I unable to create anything because I see […]

Thank you, Julie Murphy, for continuously not sucking.

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I’m sorry to say that Meet Cute was my biggest reading disappointment of 2018 so far. It had everything I thought I wanted: how-we-met short stories from some of the best YA authors out there — including Julie freaking Murphy — and a recommendation from Rainbow Rowell. I assumed it would be a delight. And some of it was. I had never heard of Ibi Zoboi, but her story “Hourglass” was my favorite of the bunch. She told a story about Cherish, a tall African-American […]



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