Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search this Site

About Emmalita

CBR 5
CBR 6
CBR 7
CBR 8
CBR 9
CBR10 participant
CBR11 participant
CBR12 participant
CBR13 participant
CBR14 Participant
CBR15 Participant
CBR16 Participant
CBR17 Participant
CBR18 Participant
CBR18 Levels
CBR18 Comments

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.)

Emmalita's Reviews:

Quiet your tongue, and listen with your heart.

Struck Speechless by Tati Richardson

by Leave a Comment

I read Tati Richardson’s Losing Sight last month in preparation for reading the arc for Struck Speechless. I loved Tamika and her friend group. I really enjoyed Richardson’s writing. I did not like Tamika’s love interest, Gideon in the last third of the book. He acknowledged that the many women telling him he was being wrongheaded were smarter than he was, and he still continued to be wrongheaded. So, I was a little concerned about how much I would enjoy Antonio. After a bit of […]

Not the review I was expecting to write

Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt

by Leave a Comment

I was really expecting this to be a strong 4 star read, instead I’m rounding up to 3 stars. The things I didn’t like, someone else will love, I’m sure. But the last 20-25 % of the book took me from “this book is imperfect but I’m enjoying it” to “oh no, I don’t like this.” I’ve read a lot of romance novels that beautifully incorporate grief into the arc of one or more characters. After Left of Forever, my expectations were that Tarah DeWitt […]

Library Week! Show us Your Library Joy

by 23 Comments

National Library Week in the US runs April 19-26 and the theme is Find Your Joy. At Cannonball Read, we love libraries of all kinds. Without libraries, many of us would have access to fewer books and resources. This year alone I’ve checked out crafting books, cookbooks, and a book about Malcolm X’s legacy. I’ve listened to 135 hours of audiobooks, gone to crafting workshops, and used their meeting rooms for community building. While we love our libraries, they are under threat in the US. […]

“How is a brussels sprout concentrated?” “Well, it’s basically a really intense cabbage.”

While You Were Seething by Charlotte Stein

by 2 Comments

This is going to be a challenging review to write because the emotional payoff in the end is the part I want to write about. I loved it so much. Reading While You Were Seething is like watching a volcano. You see the pressure growing, the little bursts where Daisy and Caleb reveal more of their interiors to each other. And then at 90% I’m sobbing because the cathartic eruption has happened and Charlotte Stein has given Daisy the words to say how I feel […]

Thee Most Adorable YA Sapphic Summer Romance

Summer Official by Rebekah Weatherspoon

by Leave a Comment

I have high expectations for a book written by Rebekah Weatherspoon. Summer Official exceeded them and now I know my expectations weren’t high enough. I fell in love with Saylor and Heaven quickly and enjoyed reading about their developing friendship and romance. This is a lovely slow-burn, introvert/extrovert, acquaintances to lovers romance. I want to talk about cake in a minute. The book starts with Saylor finding out her mother, a momfluencer, has posted a video crying with joy that Saylor has come out to […]

He was cloaked in shadows, leaning against the wall, holding a beer by the neck. Her skin tingled.

Enemies to Lovers by Alisha Rai

by 2 Comments

Sometimes the thing that speaks to me is so goofily specific I’m almost embarassed to admit what it is. I’m trying to be better about embracing my inner cringe, but also, I don’t think I’m wrong that this moment was the turning point. Sajal and Krish are on the run from one criminal organization and trying to find the head of another in Alisha Rai’s Enemies to Lovers. The sign that they are no longer enemies- she buys him a salad. She buys him a […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo