Congratulations to vel veeter for being the first to BINGO on July 17. Welcome to the cbr13bingo August check-in! Put some sunscreen on and grab a beverage for hydration. There are 28 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 168 reviews. This post is a place for you to ask questions, ask for recommendations for categories. You can always post your questions in our Facebook group – Cannonball Read Book Chat, or on Twitter @cannonballread. Finally, we’ll be posting administrative notes and reminders. Administrative Stuff Photos […]
I am a little obsessed with this loaf of bread
Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple by Dorie Greenspan
I have been playing with Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty, Simple for a few months. I collect baking books and I have high expectations for Dorie Greenspan. Overall, I quite liked this book and there are four recipes in here that have become a part of my regular repertoire, which is a lot for an individual cookbook. My very very very very favorite recipe is the first recipe in the book – “The Daily Bread: White Bread Edition.” I first made it 4 months ago, […]
A book overflowing with queer kindness
Tell Me Anything by Skye Kilaen
The thing about Skye Kilaen is that she has so much compassion for her characters and her stories are so full of kindness that when she rips my still beating heart out of my chest in chapter one, I keep reading because I trust my heart in her hands. Skye writes beautiful LGBTQ+ romances, she’s self published, and unless you hang out in the right book circles, you probably don’t know who she is. But you should, because she’s so gooooooooood. Tell Me Anything is […]
Angels of Punching You in the Face
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Earth’s crust and mantle have been peeled back by the Architects and shaped into a beautiful flower. A beautiful, uninhabitable flower. Maybe this is a reflection of my age, but I kept thinking about how clean spaceships were in science fiction when I started reading. The governments were huge global or galactic entities demonstrating how humans had unified, and often how they had integrated into a system of many alien species. There was an orderliness to science fiction worlds, even if the protagonists were rogues […]
Romancing the To-Do List
The Stand-In by Lily Chu
Lily Chu’s The Stand-In was a very nice way to spend 10 hours and it reignited my off and on search for the perfect to-do list organizer. When The Stand-In opens, Gracie Reed has taken a sick day from work to go see a lawyer about whether she has a case against her gross, handsy boss. After an unproductive meeting, she goes to her local coffee shop, hoping for some decadent chocolate treats to lift her spirits. She strikes out there too. What she does […]
CBR Diversions – Fairy Tales, Fairy Tales, and More Fairy Tales
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.–Albert Einstein, maybe. Even if the Library of Congress can’t find the exact attribution of this quote, from our modern perspective it makes sense that an emphasis on creative thinking would come from such a great scientist. To those of us with an eye on the book world, it’s no surprise to read articles that fairy tale retellings have become a […]
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