Each year Cannonball Read holds a (completely voluntary) Holiday Book Exchange, and we’re excited to continue the tradition this year. It’s a lovely part of our community here at CBR and a great way to get to know a fellow Cannonballer a little better. We hope you’ll join our bookish end of year … [Read more]
Daggermouth by H.M. Wolfe
Bingo Square: Vs (Enemies to lovers; assassin vs target; also, person vs dystopian, authoritarian government) I had fun reading this one - the story kept me engaged and turning the pages as I went, and it was just a fun, turn your brain off kind of read. It probably helped that earlier this year, I … [Read more]
Between Friends: The Recipes that Wrote Our Story by Victoria Hawkins, Jamie Miller
Bingo 7: Right I treat this square as “getting it right (or not)”. For one, I need this square for the only Bingo I’m likely to get this season, and two, the getting it right is key to this book Between Friends: The Recipes that Wrote Our Story. So, once upon a time, there was a local literary … [Read more]
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Bingo Square: Sheep (it’s in the title) This is the second of five Rachel Harris novel I read this year (I had never read her before but she’s the exact type of horror I enjoy, and while I wouldn’t put anything as 5 stars, they have all been reliable 3.5-4 star reads). Basically, I think the only … [Read more]
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume 6 by Beth Brower
In Volume 6 of the Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Emma rings in the new year with a positive attitude and new opportunities on the horizon. Of course, this does not guarantee smooth sailing, and there are plenty of unexpected adventures in store for her. On the positive side, Emma turned 21 … [Read more]
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
CBR18 BINGO: Craft (Coco makes her own olive oil. Estelle makes her own wine. People in Italy make things.) My final BINGO of CBR18: Left, Sheep, You, Craft, Repair I was so smitten by Andrew Sean Greer's comic novels Less and Less is Lost that I was utterly elated when I saw Greer had … [Read more]
One-Pound Gospel, vols. 1-4 by Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi is one of my favorite manga artists. She has been since I was so young that I thought I was getting away with something by reading her stuff (I wasn't). She built up 30+ years of goodwill with me by the time I got to One-Pound Gospel. This was, I think, the last of her series … [Read more]
