Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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There isn’t really peace when you are done

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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4.5 stars Spoiler warning! This is the second book in a series, and this review will contain spoilers for the first book, Carry On. If you haven’t already read it, you should do yourself a favour and do so. Simon Snow was the Chosen One, destined to bring an end to the threat to all magic. Of course, it turned out that he himself was in fact the thing that was threatening the magic in the first place, and his mentor/father figure (and actual biological father, although none […]

Road Trip!

November Road by Lou Berney

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I’ve just about had my fill of fiction books devoted to the Kennedy assassination. Yet since I needed to read a novel involving a family road trip for my local library’s bingo, I took this on. Lou Berney is one of those writers I should like more than I do. He writes fun, detailed crime novels that are well-paced and hold my attention. But I couldn’t even get through half of The Long and Faraway Gone. I was curious as to why. Reading the slimmer November Road provided me […]

I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike… (Bingo)

Ride with Me by Ruthie Knox

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#CBR11 Bingo: Travel Tom is a brooding loner with a past, who gave up the corporate life and now works as a bike mechanic. He’s estranged from most of his family, with the exception of his sister. Determined to cycle the Trans-America trail, from Oregon to Virginia, he’s annoyed when he discovers said sister has been e-mailing someone (as him) to arrange for a riding partner. When he finds out that the “Alex” his sister has been e-mailing is, in fact, a Lexie, he is […]

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

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After an unnerving encounter in a local fast-food chain, Annabelle runs. She runs and decides she can’t stop anytime soon. She isn’t prepared for a cross-country run, but she can’t bear to turn back to her hometown and school where she is haunted by flashbacks of The Taker, and what he took. Her mother is appalled, with graduation coming and concern that Annabelle isn’t thinking rationally. But her little brother, her friends, and her grandfather seem to understand that running to Washington DC is something […]

Roadtrip of grief

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Anna was only about a year younger than her sister Storm and spent much of her childhood tagging along after Storm and the boy next door, Cameron. When she started high school, Anna finally find her own friends and became involved in cheer leading, but when Storm dies in a car accident on the evening of her graduation, Anna is left confused and adrift, and Cameron seems to be the only one who understands and who knew Storm as well as her. When they were […]

Disgraceful Duke weds Runaway Bride in Scandalous Affair

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Hurray for a new Loretta Chase book!  This is the first book in her new series Difficult Dukes, about a trio of friends and dukes known as Their Dis-Graces for their rakish activities.  Hugh Ancaster is the seventh Duke of Ripley, and his friend the Duke of Ashmont is about to marry Olympia Hightower, pressing Hugh into service as his groomsman.  Unfortunately, Olympia isn’t sure she wants to marry Ashmont and after a couple of shots of brandy, decides to make a getaway through the […]



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