Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The normalcy was almost violent in its opposition to everything else.

Bass-Ackwards by Eris Adderly

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Sometimes, I’m going along and suddenly my brain wants to read something real weird. Usually, nothing that fits that weird shape calls itself to my attention and I can get on with my usual reading. Last night I came across Eris Adderly’s Bass-Ackwards and knew it was the real weird thing I wanted to read. This one is an approach with caution, your mileage may vary, taboo, boss-employee, age gap romance. Christina needs to ask her boss for a day off. She thinks of her […]

Why not distract yourself from the workings of the world with the workings of your own insides?

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

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…or more frequently, the misfiring insides of others. Fistulated fellows? Check. Elvis and his mega-colon? Check. Taste-testing pet food, pus, rancid oil, and/or the saliva of others? All yours and more to spare! I like to, for the most-part, enjoy nonfiction via audio books. Frequently, I wander around the house doing whatever needs doing while playing books through a speaker. While I whole-heartedly recommend Gulp, I do NOT recommend subjecting innocent bystanders (sorry, husband!) to the dirty work within. Not everything here is gross. And really, […]

Boundary-crossing erotica that’s Courtney Milan approved

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It’s been a minute since I’ve written a review, and I feel like I’ve forgotten how to do it. Let’s pretend I was never gone and this is actually going to be competent, shall we? So I said right in the title of this review that this is Courtney Milan approved erotica, which is a kind of flippant way of saying she gave it a 5/5 star rating with about a billion caveats. Specifically, I’m referring to this review of The Siren, the first book […]



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