Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Last Bingo, # 8: More Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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I blame faintingviolet (and crystalclear) for my new obsession with everything Rowell. I was so happily ignorant before cracking one of her books, but now I’m like an addict and I can’t get enough. I haven’t suffered from book-hangover in a very long time, but Wayward Son has me moping around wondering when book 3 is going to hit the shelves. I don’t know what to read next, I have a stack from the library that I’m sending back because everything is just paling in comparison […]

You make infidelity sound like a hole in the sidewalk.

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Another Cannonball Read Rainbow Rowell Success Story! This is my first Rainbow Rowell novel, and I would not have found her so quickly were she not a huge CBR favorite. And I get it, but also I don’t? She is undeniably a damn delight. But more to point about this specific book, the part of me that’s still mad that “Bridget Jones’ Baby” ended with a fucking wedding is really bummed out that Lincoln (our hero) ends his Attachments journey to emotional health and adult sustainability […]

Landline – Rowell in top form as always

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Rainbow Rowell is clearly the sweetheart of the Cannonball Read. Between Fangirl and Eleanor and Park, she’s made rabid fans out of many of us, and we’ve all waited with baited breath for her latest, Landline. Landline is Rowell’s return to stories about adults. After dealing with the tough issues of young adulthood in her previous work, in Landline, Rowell takes on the complicated and challenging topic of marriage and how people somehow change and stay the same all at once. In Landline, Georgie McCool’s marriage is in trouble. Her husband and the father of her […]



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