Welcome to the cbr13bingo October check-in! You have 27 more days to play! There are 31 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 411 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 and Images: For the categories that ask for an image on the cover (Flora, Cityscape, People, Landscape and Fauna), […]
Someone Else Will Like This Better
Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis
This is a book that was not at all for me, but other people will like much more than I did. I wanted to like it. It’s an homage to Jane Austen, but with magic and dragons. The things I didn’t like are mostly your mileage may vary kinds of things. I find stories in which the protagonist tells an easily discovered lie or is engaged in a three racoons in a trench coat kind of disguise very stressful. Elinor Tregarth is living with her aunt, […]
“Mr. Responsibility and Ms. Take Care of Everyone…Wherever might the two of you find common ground?”
Wild at Heart by Zoe York
Zoe York’s Wild at Heart was a balm to read after flailing around in a fantasy novel that should have worked for me, but did not. It was nice to slip into York’s small Canadian town where everyone knowing everything about everyone is a blessing and a curse. For Catie Berton, what people don’t seem to care to know is what bothers her the most. That, and also that Will Kincaid thinks her town improvement ideas are dumb. Will thinks Catie is bossy, and she […]
CBR Diversions – Unbanned Fiction
Did you hear about the students and parents in Pennsylvania who banded together to pressure a school board into overturning a ban on books, most of which were written by Black and Brown authors? I looked over the very long list, and then I read the rationale behind the ban. The board believes that the fundamental purpose of school is that of core academics, objective education without indoctrination from any political or social agenda… The racism really jumps out. One thing that struck me, among […]
The Sweetest Punch to the Face
Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
I loved this book so much. Between the cooking, the yearning, and the characters who have so much going on in their heads, Anita Kelly hit a lot of my happy buttons. Love and Other Disasters will probably be on a lot of best of lists and most anticipated lists next year. So, plan your pre-orders accordingly. London and Dahlia have been selected to be contestants on a tv cooking competition show for home cooks (not professionals). There is a substantial monetary prize, and for each […]
The Dominatrix and The Star
His Leading Lady by Jenny Nordbak
I enjoyed reading Jenny Nordbak’s His Leading Lady. It was an engrossing read with good characters and an interesting take on the fake dating and sex lessons tropes. His Leading Lady is Nordbak’s debut romance, but not her first book. She also wrote about her experiences as a professional dominatrix in Los Angeles. She’s drawn on that experience for her fiction debut. Lady Elena is a professional Dominatrix at the top of her field. She has recently experienced more notoriety than she would like when […]
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