After our biggest exchange ever last year we’re bringing back our voluntary Book Exchange and with the help of Emmalita I’ll be handling the organizational components once again. It’s a lovely part of our community here at CBR and a great way to get to know a fellow Cannonballer a little bit better. It’s also a great excuse to share a little holiday cheer and do some spending through the Cannonball Read Buy Hole. (Remember, any funds generated through the Buy Hole are in turn donated to the American Cancer Society to fight cancer). Those of you who have participated in the past will […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: MarkAbaddon
Your bio says you sought out CBR to use writing as a release from the stress of the political atmosphere, which is a great reason! Have you found it helpful? As the ant said when pissing into the ocean, “Every bit helps.” Honestly, the political environment is so toxic and upsetting right now, I believe we all need multiple mechanisms to cope. Writing does help. So does alcohol. In one of your reviews, you said that “There are some books one reads as a teenager or young adult that help shape their interests, their philosophies, really begin to define the […]
More of this, please!
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Oh god I’m so behind. I’ve got three more reviews to write after this one and I’m almost done with a fourth book how did I let this happen. Ahhhhhh. But seriously, more of this please. Give me all the non-Euro-centric YA fantasy you got and I will eat it up. Gods of Jade and Shadow dives deep into Mexican-Mayan mythology and I loved literally every second of it. A friend of mine started reading it and I was like OH MY GOD FINISH SOONER SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT. Anyway. Gods of Jade and Shadow is the story of Casiopea, […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
11/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:96 |
Shooting Stars
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Dragon Hoops was not only a graphic novel, but a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. And not just only any old graphic novel by him, but a First Second published one. All the big points were hit. The only thing I was not looking forward to was going to be the basketball aspect. But I figured that since Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu was not really about hockey, that maybe this was not really about basketball. Oh, it is about basketball. But it is about one extremely special high school team. But not just when the book was started, […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
11/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:487 | 
| Tags: basketball, Boys & Men, Gene Luen Yang, Sports & Recreation | Category: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novel/Comic, History, Non-Fiction, Sports, Young Adult | 0 Comments
Get your red hot and garlic and BBQ and oh so much more crickets here
Chirp by Kate Messner
Chirp is an age appropriate (10-14) book dealing with some heavy subjects. But overall, they are presented respectfully and are accessible to all readers. There were a few bumps in the plot for me, but I felt it was a decent story and for certain the style that you have come to expect from the author. Kate Messner writes about Mia, a young girl moving back to Vermont after several years living in Boston. Her parents and she have come back to help her grandmother with the family farm. Only this is not your typical farm. It is a cricket […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- Chirp by Kate Messner
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
Share the post "Get your red hot and garlic and BBQ and oh so much more crickets here"
11/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:486 | 
| Tags: inscets, Kate Messner, Multigenerational, Mystery and detective stories, Social Themes, Vermont | Category: Children's, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult | 0 Comments
King is once more Hip to the Jive
The Institute by Stephen King
Historically, King is at his best building stories with complex worlds, high stakes, many moving parts, and a cast of characters. In many cases, his tales are told through the eyes of a child. The Dark Tower, IT, and The Body are all a testament to King’s uncanny ability to get into the mind of a child and face overwhelming challenges from a tweenager perspective. But, in recent years, I’ve felt that King’s ability to connect with the younger generation is slipping. For a 72 year old, that is hardly surprising. The world is transforming, technology is constantly evolving, politics […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- The Institute by Stephen King
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
11/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |
“She’s not a regular lady”
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
Girl Waits with Gun is a charming historical fiction novel based on true events. Amy Stewart sources articles from early 20th century newspapers including the Philadelphia Sun, the Bergen County Evening-Record, and the New York Times, mingles facts with her own imagination, and gives us a sometimes harrowing, often funny suspense tale starring a top-notch heroine. The Kopp sisters are three women living alone on a farm in 1914 New Jersey after the death of their mother. In spite of their brother Francis’s pleas to come reside with him and his wife, Bessie, the Kopp women enjoy their independence and […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
11/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 | | Tags: amy stewart, cbr11, historical fiction, historical mystery, KimMiE" | Category: Fiction | 0 Comments
Thrills and Chills
The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn
In the year since it’s been out, The Woman in the Window has been more noted for the drama of its author than the success of the book itself, thanks in large part to Ian Parker’s excellent New Yorker piece on Dan Mallory, aka “AJ Finn.” Reading it made me never want to pick up the book despite the breathless hype surrounding it. While i occasionally indulge in the Gillian Flynn thriller, I prefer more of a noir with this type of book, so I assumed this was of the airport bestseller variety. However, when it was on sale at my local library for […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
11/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:120 | | Tags: agoraphobia, aj finn, mystery, Suspense, The Woman in the Window, thriller | Category: Suspense | 0 Comments
A wonderful surprise-an intelligent, articulate science graphic novel
The Dialogues by Clifford V. Johnson
I attend a science fiction/fantasy convention every year and during one of the panels on the Physics of the Avengers this past year, the speaker recommended this graphic novel, which was written by a friend of his. Hard science explanations in a graphic novel format intrigued me, but I was unsure if it would actually work over the entire work. While it drags in some places, I really enjoyed this graphic novel. There isn’t a coherent story, but rather the author chooses to use the ancient technique of simply two people talking to illustrate points he is trying to make. […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- The Dialogues by Clifford V. Johnson
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
Share the post "A wonderful surprise-an intelligent, articulate science graphic novel"
11/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 | | Tags: astrophysics, conversations, physics, science | Category: Graphic Novel/Comic, Non-Fiction | 0 Comments
When in doubt, say nothing and move on.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
My second Arthur C Clarke novel in a week, and while they are separated by 20 years of publication and are not at all meant to be connected really, and this would be impossible given the events of Childhood’s End, I do think they represent a maturity in either the author’s view on the nature of humanity, the genre of science fiction, or some other changes in the world at large, because they act almost as variations on a theme. What will or would it be like were we to make contact with another race of beings, what would it tell […]
Help Support Cannonball Read
Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:
- Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.
11/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:638 |