Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Caitlin_D

Aiming for my fourth Double Cannonball with this awesome community

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BINGO BLACKOUT

Beowolf by Unknown, Francis Barton Gummere (Translation)

The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

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I did it! I cannot believe I managed to pull this off but I realized that I would probably not participate next year and would have been disappointed to get so close this year only to fall short by a book or two. Lemme tell you though- these last two titles were a struggle…  CBR Bingo: Back to School Beowulf, Unknown Over the last few years I have reread several books from my high school years that I loved: In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, A Prayer for Owen Meany and a few others. I decided for this Bingo challenge I’d tackle […]

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10/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:106 |

Double Cannonball with a Bingo twist!

My Boyfriend is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR Bingo: Illustrated My Boyfriend is a Bear, Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris (2 Stars) To be honest graphic novels are probably the most “not my wheelhouse” genre for me but since an illustrated book was required for Bingo My Boyfriend is a Bear checks off this square instead. I chose My Boyfriend because it was written by Pamela Ribon and since I am not a comic reader I didn’t want to read the first of a long series I had no intentions to complete. Obviously one has to suspend their disbelief when reading a book about a woman dating a real life bear […]

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10/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:104 |

CBR Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse, I Love This and Reader’s Choice

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR 11 Bingo- Not My Wheelhouse 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne I chose a romance novel, Thorne’s The Hating Game, for last year’s Not My Wheelhouse and while I enjoyed it the romance genre floodgates were not opened for me so I chose another kissing book for the same square this year. Darcy Barrett and her twin brother, Jamie, inherited their grandmother’s tear-down of a cottage which has caused some estrangement between the siblings. Their childhood best friend, Tom, has been hired as the contractor to flip the house before sale as well as something of a go-between for the […]

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10/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:102 |

Non-fiction review dump (and two CBR11 Bingos)

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein

Naturally Tan by Tan France

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

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Whoo-hoo! Two non-fiction books gets me two more squares and two Bingos! I may not manage a black-out before the end of the month but I am finally making some headway in this game. CBR 11 Bingo: Award Winner The Devil in the White City- Erik Larson Y’all, I read this book in July and then completely forgot about it. In my defense The Devil in the White City has the dubious honor of being the book I was reading when I found out I was pregnant and therefore anytime I turned on Overdrive to listen to a few chapters a third of […]

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10/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:99 |

The One Where I continue to catch up on Bingo squares!

I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

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CBR11 Bingo: Cannonballer Says I’ll Be There for You: The One about Friends; Kelsey Miller Friends has been all over the internet this month in anticipation of the 25th anniversary of Thursday Night’s Must See TV darling. Kelsey Miller’s charming look into the television series has been on my list since my sister, Badkittyuno, read it a few months back but she is far from the only Cannonballer recommending this one. “Some things don’t change. Friends is a reminder of that, and that’s why so many of us reach for it in times of grief or fear, when catastrophe strikes or when […]

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9/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:94 |

CBR11 Bingo: The Collection

Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron

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I think the only appropriate thing to read after a book heavily influenced by Nora Ephron is a collection written by Ms Ephron herself. “The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.” Wallflower at the Orgy is a collection of articles Ephron wrote in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. You can tell that this collection was relevant when it was originally published but unfortunately the articles didn’t age well. For the most part the content was just not engaging or relevant for a 2019 audience. Admittedly […]

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9/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:92 |

Waiting for Tom Hanks (a.k.a shut up Annie you don’t deserve a movie star)

Waiting for Tom Hanks (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #1) by Kerry Winfrey

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CBR11 Bingo: Two Heads are Better Than One Caitlin_D: So when I started to read this book I knew immediately that you need to read it too. And then I remembered I needed someone to write a review with me!! Badkittyuno: I love rom-coms. (Caitlin_D: we both do) In fact, one of my favorite things about my fiance is that he is 100% willing to watch silly romantic movies with me. And as a child of the 90s (and a huge Nora Ephron fan), I definitely love the trifecta of rom-coms referenced frequently in this book: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless […]

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9/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:91 |

On Antarctica No One Can Hear You Scream

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

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This is what I mean by poor planning. If I had known I was going to read Endurance I would have chosen it for “Far And Away” and moved The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind to “Own Voices” and gotten a damn Bingo by now but alas, I did not think ahead. Endurance is the story of Earnest Shackelton’s ill-fated 1914 expedition to Antarctica told through journal entries and the survivor’s recollections in the following years. I was recently reading a Cracked article about things you don’t realize where happening at the same time- things like McDonald’s opening within a few days of Auschwitz and […]

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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:90 |


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