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 »

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

This Cursed House by Del Sandeen

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This whole book irked my soul. There was a lot of things happening in this one and i just felt wholly unsatisfied by the never ending attempts to break the curse and the character of Jemma forgiving people for the crap that they did. I don't know what the author was going on for in this one, but I … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:109 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , ·

Not what I expected; Exactly what I expected

Night's Fall by Kristen Ashley

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Oh, gentle reader... I thought I had broken myself of the Kristen Ashley habit. Longtime Cannonball Read participants will remember my earlier addiction to her books and my lamentations over them. And by lamentations, I mean my lamenting over my inability to quit reading books that made me want to … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: ·

“…looking back at those pages, I shivered to see our plunge into darkness, day by day, without realizing it was a spiral, and its nadir, the abyss.”

The Year of the Wind: A Novel by Karina Pacheco Medrano

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Cbr18bingo Sheep. Sheep and other livestock are mentioned throughout the novel and sheep feature prominently in a particularly important scene Earlier in the year I reviewed Rabih Alameddine’s brilliant novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) and one of the things I noted … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Reese Witherspoon Strikes Again

Into the Blue by Emma Brodie

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There was a question I kept asking myself while reading Into the Blue by Emma Brodie, and after thinking it over I've decided that the answer is fifteen. The question is: How young would the author of this book have to be in order for me to find this impressive? To put it mildly, I was not a fan … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:63 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Romance · Tags: ·

love when you realize there’s more in a universe that you loved

"Wings In the Morning" by Sarah Rees Brennan

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This is really just a four star review for the one story in here about Luke Sunborn, he of the lovable himbo with depth persuasion in the delightful In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. I re-read In Other Lands solely to read this story, because I feared I would not recall enough of the tale to … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:47 · Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories · Tags: , , , ·

Kin by Tayari Jones

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CW: racism, obviously, but also pre-Roe-era abortion, including bad outcomes (offscreen) What is it with books about ambivalent/absent mothers and the impact on the (female) child? I feel like I'm being hit over the head with a lesson that I don't particular need! I found this book almost … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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