Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Cozy re-read.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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Quick review for a re-read. I still love this book. It’s still a great character study of Cath, who has anxiety and abandonment issues, and has huddled in on herself like a turtle, afraid to put out feelers to the outside world. She uses reading and writing fanfiction as an outlet for her creativity, and a way to forget herself for a while, but she wants to be a professional writer, and that means a type of writing she isn’t comfortable with yet, a type […]

Love before first sight

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Lincoln’s job is terrible. He has to monitor emails at a newspaper and send warning messages to staff whose emails have inappropriate content. He hates it. He works nights and hardly sees anyone and the creepy nature of his work is getting him down. Except when he reads Beth and Jennifer’s exchanges. He starts to look forward to those. And he doesn’t send them a warning like he knows he should. Soon it’s not just that he likes reading those messages, it’s that he likes […]

Meg Ryan Rom-Com: I should have bought the Kindle edition (now $1.99!)

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Picking out a book is like dating before computers: all you’ve got to go on is cover and genre. Let’s say bleak non-fiction is your wheelhouse. Today you’re not feeling it—hundreds of pages about the Holocaust is enough for one week—so you think, hey! time for something new. Look at this handwritten recommendation on the bookstore shelf. Look at that cute paperclip…aww, it’s a workplace romance. Not my type, but maybe I’ve changed! Maybe there’s still feeling left in my pessimistic soul! I breezed through […]

I’ve read this story before, and so have you (but it’s still pretty great)

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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For years, being a (now recovering) literary fiction snob with a preference for British Commonwealth authors, I’ve followed the Man Booker Prize long- and shortlists as a way to find new books, and since I still need a regular fix of literary fiction even as I explore new genres, I’ve started to look to other prizes to expand my library. With Sally Rooney’s Normal People appearing on the Booker longlist and winning the Costa Novel Award, it was an obvious choice, especially as I continue […]

Rainbow Rowell is my happy place

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell books are the written equivalent of a weighted blanket and cup of tea. The moment I open one, I feel immediately comfortable and content. There is something inherently warm about her writing so much so that even when the characters are in tough situations, I’m just happy to be there. Carry On, well, carries on this grand tradition and I am just tickled pink that she wrote it. I’ll probably reread Fangirl this year because it was my first and always favorite of her books […]

Eleanor and Park Redux #CBRBingo

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So I have to write eleven reviews in less than two days if I’m going to make the CBR Bingo deadline, so this and the next ten reviews will probably be short. This was my second time through Eleanor & Park, and I picked it up because I had already read all the books in the So Popular! bingo category, and had recently re-read Attachments, so this book, why not! It’s still great, first of all, but also, it’s still my least favorite Rainbow Rowell […]



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