Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Angsty, charming, good….and problematic?

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

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CBR11 Bingo –  Cannonballer Says So, scootsa1000 reviewed this book two months ago, and she could’ve just said, “Hey, Rainbow Rowell says this is the best book she read last year.” That would’ve been enough to get me to read Emergency Contact. Instead, she went on to give a really good review of the book. I suggest reading it. Penny is a freshman in college, and I don’t think she’s ever looked forward to anything in her life as much as she has getting away […]

Park turned toward the Plexiglas window and waited for a world of suck to hit the fan.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

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I really didn’t know what I was getting into with this one. I listened to the audiobook as I walked and also while I painted the bathroom. Well what happens though is you start getting teary in the most inopportune times. This book is TENDER. That’s the best word I can think of for it: like Eleanor, if you are in sync with the novel, you are on the verge of tears throughout every moment of the novel. It’s very sweet in earnest and honest […]

Cannonballer Says

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

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Ok, my Cannonball Says entry for Bingo might be kind of a cheat, because… let’s be real, I’m enough of a Rowell fangirl that I was gonna buy this with or without a good review from a cannonballer. That said, choosing this book allows me to highlight how clever scootsa1000’s review title is (let’s talk about Seth, baby) as well as to tip my hat to a cannonballer who might love Rainbow Rowell more than I do. I feel like this might be one of […]

Never doubt Rainbow.

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

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A few weeks ago, while sitting around and browsing Instagram instead of doing whatever I was supposed to be doing, I saw a post from Rainbow Rowell talking about a book coming out soon from an author that she loves, and mentioned Emergency Contact. I hadn’t heard of it before, and Rainbow claimed was  her favorite book of 2018! Rainbow went on and on, talking about how excited she was for the new book and how much she loved EC, and I just said WHAT […]

“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen – because you love each other.”

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

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Still good, but not my fave of hers. Like, 4.5 stars. If I had to rate all her books, this one would be nearer to the bottom, just above Eleanor & Park, and that’s purely personal preference speaking. All of the Rowells are Quality. (I have no idea what to expect for the forthcoming Pumpkinheads, but I am nevertheless excited in my ignorance.) This is definitely the most adult of her books, not a true romance, but a story of marriage and the hard work […]

Right there with ya

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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So after the sarcasm fire of my last review, I need to applaud that this book ostensibly written for young adults had a more realistic picture of romantic relationships than The Glass Ocean – a more “literary” historical fiction – did. Our hero Cath develops relationships that are more complex than “buhh I luhh him,” in ways that are recognizable to actual humans. (Can not stand books that insist that a character loves another without showing the reader why they are. Beauty is not a […]



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