Once more, Teresaelectro has gifted me with a wonderful book for the CBR book exchange! And nailed it. A memoir? Check. A strong, kickass female voice? Check. A book that I’ve always seen and gone “huh, I should probably read that”? Check! I am super stoked to dig into this and I can’t thank you enough for this wonderful gift.
What We Need to Get By (CANNONBALL!)
I’ve done it. I have found the perfect book, and I have reached the goal. 52 books read and reviewed in just over 10 months, and boy, am I hitting this milestone with a dozy. This is absolutely a contender for Book of the Year. Lies We Tell Ourselves is a book about desegregation in 1959 Virginia. It’s a book about accepting who we are and realizing that sometimes we are so much more important that we think. It’s a book about challenging the views that […]
Fake It Til You Make It
This is it. My penultimate Cannonball read. Last year I only made it a little over halfway, and this year…well, I’m almost there. I’ve been trying to select my last few books carefully, wanting to go out on a bang (I mean, I’m going to keep reading and reviewing after I hit 52, but come on. #52 has to be special.) Red Queen is a title I’ve seen kicking around lately and I’m a sucker for books like this. YA, female protagonist, magic, class warfare, dystopian. […]
The Secrets We Keep
When I first picked up this book, I assumed it was going to be as the title suggested: about the secret of a husband (or husbands) and how it impacts that lives of those close to them. And, in a way, it was. But as I got deeper into this book and realized what these secrets were, and the way it tied the lives of three different women together, it became clear that it was about so much more than that. It’s about the pressure […]