Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

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Let’s watch June’s life unravel!

Sunflower Season by Danica Nava

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Danica Nava is so good at dropping readers right into the main character’s mental crisis. At the beginning of Sunflower Season, June Walker thinks she has everything under control. She has a soul sucking, but financially rewarding job. Her entire life is centered around that, except for the app she designed to encourage her to develop a little work life balance. Her virtual garden app is the clue that June does not want to be at a tech company in San Francisco. Danica Nava yanks […]

Life, love, and sex are better when you reject the idea of cringe and embrace wonder

Falling for a Villainous Vampire by Charlotte Stein

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Charlotte Stein has been writing romance for a long time. I’ve followed her on social media for years, and she has a keen eye for observing culture. I say this because her paranormal romance series, The Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures, is in conversation with the culture she’s observing. The series is a plea to embrace “cringe”, embrace wonder, and embrace big feelings. In each of the books, characters have to reject being ashamed of themselves and playing it cool. Only authenticity is rewarded. Right before […]

What if the hot crazy guy was right? And now you’re stuck in a Winnebago with him?

You, Me & the Conspiracy by Emma Barry

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Sometimes I imagine the book I’m about to review as a cocktail. For Emma Barry’s You, Me & the Conspiracy there’s clearly a foundational pour of her own experience in academia, some Howard Zinn challenging historical naratives for flavor, and a hearty splash of National Treasure swashbuckling for sparkle. Her love of American history is in there. And then there are shots of “what if the hot guy who was shunned for conspiracy theories was right?” and “what happens when I’m stuck in a Winnebago […]

“Welcome home, eh?” He shakes his head like he didn’t have to travel the world to know where to find a woman like her.

Un Verano Contigo by Cynthia A. Rodriguez

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Cynthia A. Rodriguez is a new to me author. I picked up her most recent release, Un Verano Contigo, in part because it’s a short 70 pages and seemed like a good way to try out her style. I am in love. It is so good. I love short stories and, yes, I do think they are harder to write than a novel. Rodriguez has done magic, she’s crafted a story that feels bigger than the page count. Un Verano Contigo is set during a […]

The conundrum of the NetGalley arc – a good book that I’m not feeling right now

Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe

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I ended up dnf’ing Mallory Marlowe’s Entities to Lovers a little over the halfway point and I’m feeling a lot of mixed feelings about it. There’s quite a lot I liked about the book, but it was also frustrating. There was enough that I liked that I’ll probably pick up Marlowe’s other books. I might come back to this one later. On the plus side, it’s clever, funny, and has a supernatural take on chronic depression that I’d love to dig into another time. Rory […]

As soon as I finished listening to it, I immediately went back to the beginning and started again. Twice

Where Peace is Lost by Valerie Valdes

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On Sunday nights we have a family dinner that ranges from 3 to 10 people. After everyone leaves, I put in my earbuds and listen to an audiobook. Last Sunday, my library hold for Valerie Valdes’ Where Peace is Lost had come in, so I started it. I was immediately so engrossed that I stretched that kitchen clean up to almost 4 hours. It’s a small kitchen. I drowned myself in Valdes’ world. I finished the next day and then promptly started again and listened […]



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