Cannonball Read 18

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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 […]

Enjoyable af

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

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3.5 stars. This is feel-good young adult lit without being too fluffy about it. It’s YA rom-com with some serious stuff thrown in. Jessie’s mom died a couple years ago and finds herself relocated to California from Chicago, living with a new step-mom and step-brother. She’s going to a fancy private school with a bunch of kids who either ignore her or hassle her and she misses her life from before. When a mysterious person starts emailing her anonymously offering to help her navigate the […]

Slightly-better-than-average M/M romance

Fired Up by Riley Hart

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I wanted my first review to be for a book that I really loved, but everything I’ve really loved has already been reviewed here (makes sense, given they were all recommended by Mrs. Julien) so I decided my inaugural post would be for a book I liked well enough… So, “Fired Up.” This is the first book in the Fever Falls series, a shared universe between authors Riley Hart and Devon McCormack. Riley Hart wrote  “Fired Up”, and Devon McCormack wrote book #2, “#Burn” (currently […]

Epic Romances Rarely Start With a 5 Year Stiffy

Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole

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Am rereading the entire IAD series so I can follow along with the insightful Fated Mates podcast by the delightful Sarah MacLean and Jen Prokop. Ironically they didn’t cover this one (or will later for reasons) so the jokes on me. This is a spoilery discussion of the book more than a proper review, so ye be warned. Myst is a valkyrie warrior, who in this world, all tend to have a special super power. Myst’s super power is using her sexuality to manipulate men. […]

Empathy Served With a Slice of Pie

all that she can see by Carrie Hope Fletcher

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I finished all that she can see by Carrie Hope Fletcher on a plane, January 1, returning from a holiday trip to London. This review isn’t about the trip, but yes, it was lovely. I received this book as a gift while visiting my dear friend in Manchester. “This looked like your kind of read,” she said, “and you need to escape a bit” (or something along those lines, allow me some literary liberties). And it is! The first half, anyway. A deeply empathic baker, […]

It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears.

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

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I’m so torn on this book. I was all set to rip into it for not being the book I wanted it to be, which was a story about a young American woman’s lighthearted romp through the English countryside while she led a Harry Potter-esque existence (keeping the book magic, losing the outright magic) during her tenure at Oxford. Who wouldn’t want to live vicariously through such a character? This is what I got for the first half of the book. Ella arrives in England […]



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