Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Featured Reviews

's CBR18 Review #29:

Holiday Roundup
A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck
System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells
Tough Guy (Game Changers #4) by Rachel Reid
Flesh by David Szalay
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Last One Out by Jane Harper

What is Cannonball Read?

Cannonball Read (CBR) is an annual, memorial reading challenge that challenges participants to read and review 52 (or 26 or 13) books in a calendar year. We donate profits to the American Cancer Society in memory of AlabamaPink, our fierce warrior queen, in the fight against cancer. Read More »

My most surprising 5-star read of the year (also Cannonball, finally)

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

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Monthly Keyword 26: Bright Reading the Rainbow: Yellow CBR18 Bingo: Versus (The brave, tenacious and determined women vs the spineless and depraved serial killer Official plot synopsis: Tallahassee, 1978. Sorority president Pamela Schumacher wakes to a shocking scene of implausible violence … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

I’m looking forward to the third book, Fertile: A Graphic Memoir from Street Noise Books.

Bad Kid (A Graphic Memoir): My Life as a "Troubled Teen" by Sofia Szamosi

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EDIT: When I wrote this review it was right after Marjane Satrapi had passed. So this has sat for a bit.   Due to the death of the author Marjane Satrapi, any story that remotely reminds me of their work gets a little extra love (I admit, I’m being sentimental and have no logic there). … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:295 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·

Are all fictional detectives neurodivergent?

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

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4.5 stars Dark Corner selection: April 2026 Nowhere Book Bingo 26: Award Winner (Hugo and World Fantasy Award 2025) CBR18 Bingo: Map (there's a map at the start, showing the various walls to keep out the Levianthans) Official plot synopsis (since I'm reviewing a book I finished in … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Watch out for Grandma Billy and the crazy Gods (I’m more scare of GB though!)

Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher

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No matter how many times you tell me, I cannot believe that T. Kingfisher is Ursula Vernon (and Vernon is Kingfisher). They must be two different people! After all Vernon has one voice and Kingfisher has another. Okay, maybe four people actually, as Vernon has three main tones that I have found. The … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:294 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Horror, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , ·

I’m enjoying how eclectic my books in the photo are

Alison by Lizzy Stewart

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Alison by Lizzy Stewart is an illustrated novel/graphic novel that is an intense, slow burn, but reads quickly, story of coming of age in your adult years. The world of art, women and sex explodes off the pages, yet the narrative remains slow and deep. Best described as "literary," and that means … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:293 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , ·

The two Sophies

Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry

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Lois Lowry, in my reading experience, tends to be “presentation soft, but still deals with the hard stuff. And Tree. Table. Book. does not disappoint.   Lowery deals with family, friendship, bullies, mental and physical health and coming to terms with death. Things build slowly but once the … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:292 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, History, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·


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