Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in Austin, Texas. She/her. Loves reading books, writing about books and talking about books. On the CBR Board. May send you an email. Thinking about new challenges. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Emmalita's Quick Questions interview.)

Emmalita's Reviews:

A Solid Chicken Cookbook.

Winner, Winner! Chicken Dinner: 50 Winning Ways to Cook it Up by Stacie Billis

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I cook a lot of chicken. I was a vegetarian for twenty plus years, but a few years ago something changed and I had a hard time digesting a lot of my protein staples. I started eating chicken again and immediately felt better. Bodies are weird. For all the cookbooks I have, I don’t really have any that are chicken focused. I still gravitate towards vegetarian cookbooks. I requested Winner, Winner! Chicken Dinner from NetGalley because my chicken repertoire is haphazard. I received this in exchange […]

I Don’t Not Like You

The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel

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I recommend Sajni Patel’s debut, The Trouble With Hating You, with some caution. Not everyone is going to like Liya, the prickly main character, and I cannot speak to the quality of the Desi representation. It’s high drama and angst with low heat. I enjoyed enough about the book that I would be interested in reading more from the author. I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The drama in the book may also put some people off. Most significantly, there […]

CBR Diversions – Please Introduce Us To…

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2020 has been a weird year, and we are still in the first half. For a lot of us, the pandemic has meant spending a lot less time with other people. Some of us are working from home, some of us have lost our jobs, and even for those of us still going in to work, we aren’t socializing in person much. So who or what is getting you through this time? Do you have a feline supervisor who likes to hang out on your […]

(I know, I’m paranoid, but that’s how I’ve avoided being rendered for spare parts all this time.)

Network Effect by Martha Wells

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I could bang on about the discomfort of humans in late stage capitalist societies being treated as replaceable commodities as a reason that many of us identify with Murderbot, but you live here with me, so you know. Murderbot struggles to balance self-determination with blending in to fucked up society. After freeing them self from their governor module, they have had to behave as if they are under corporate control. They still have to act within a system that would sell them for parts if […]

Though Beryl Hadn’t Been to Every Planet, She’d Stand Firm on the Opinion That Most Worlds Could Benefit From Canines

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

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I fell in love with this book before I was through the first chapter. It is the sunshiniest. smooshiest, center of the cinnamon rolliest romance. It’s funny and surprisingly sexy, but mostly it hits on the importance of finding people who value you for yourself. Zylar of Kith Balak has only one more chance to be approved for mating. He thinks he’s going to meet a prospective mate with whom to enter the Choosing competition but something happens to his ship and he lands on […]

Introducing CBR Diversions – What Books Have You Read or Are You Reading Because of CBR?

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Behind the scenes a bunch of the CBR volunteers have been talking about fun things we can do to provide diversions from the stress of these very strange and weird times. Graphics maven yesknopemaybe came up with the brilliant and delightful #cbrbookgram challenge on Instagram, which wrapped up yesterday. Even if you don’t have an Instagram account, you can peruse the posts of people sharing their books. Inspired by the fun we had with the Instagram challenge, we will periodically post discussion posts, games, and […]



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