Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

About LurkeyTurkey

CBR 4
CBR 5
CBR 6
CBR 7
CBR 9
CBR13 participant

I've been lurking on Pajiba since 2006, and loved Alabama Pink. Anything we can do in her memory is A-Ok by me. I'm an avid reader, love cooking, comedy, snarky humor, travel, and learning new things. I listen to many of my books while doing boring things around the house to keep up with a job and 3 little ones.

LurkeyTurkey's Reviews:

Must love Idiots and Bridges

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

by 1 Comment

I read (actually listened) to this book directly after reading the review of another CBR reviewer (thanks, Narfna!), and finished it in 2 days.  I rarely tear through books these days due to meddling kids always being underfoot and a demanding work schedule, but this novel was the exception.  It made me want to fold an extra load of laundry, volunteer to do the dishes, and myriad other household chores so I could be left alone to linger in the world Backman created. I won’t […]

The Riyria Revelations Series (Books #1-6)

The Riyria Revelations (Books 1-6) by Michael J. Sullivan

by 1 Comment

Well, first review of the year, and this is a doozy!  It’s kind of impossible to attempt to divide out all 6 books, so I’ll do this in a combined post.  I did consume this series via audiobook, and the fantastic narrator (combined with the tasks of taking down Christmas, laundry, holiday chore catch up), made the time sail by, hence all 6 at once.  🙂 The basic plot is this:  Two men are brought together by a wise scholar for an impossible heist.  Royce […]

I’m Gonna Armada Your Face!

by 2 Comments

Upon deciding to pick up this book because you loved Ready Player One, kindly disregard all hopes and dreams of a Ready Player One Part Deux.  It is not a sequel, follow up, or companion piece, and to expect such will leave you disappointed. Plot synopsis: Zack Lightman is a high-school guy with an obsession with all things sci-fi and video-game related.  He’s a dreamer, a classic underachiever, and not really one of the cool kids in his class.  He spends his days playing Armada and Terra […]

I’ll Trade You the Moon

by Leave a Comment

This is a tough book to rate- there are things I really enjoyed about the writing and the story, and things that made me want to shake the characters nearly to death. Basic Plotline: Jude and Noah are twins living with a magical mother (and grandmother), and their scientifically-minded father (the artichoke).  The story opens with Noah’s arc beginning at age 13.  Noah is a quiet loner who is obsessed with art, and getting into the art high school nearby, when he falls in love […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized

's CBR7 Review No:4 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: ·

Death becomes her

by 2 Comments

Oh, Nora Roberts, why can’t I quit you?  Change your name, “change” your genre, it matters not- I’m yours. Ceremony in Death, the fifth in the In Death series, is perhaps the quirkiest of the series thus far.  This time Detective Eve Dallas is thrust into a murder investigation involving black/white magic, a fellow officer’s death, and the occult.  Oh, my!  Unfortunately, she is also forced to keep her mentor/father-figure/friend, Fenney, at arms length due to an internal affairs investigation.  That also means her charming, […]

Here be Monsters!

by Leave a Comment

As the 5th in the Monster Hunter series, one might obviously, and correctly, assume I am a fan of Larry Correia’s Monster Hunting world.   I stumbled upon this series and the Grimnoir (which was fantastic, in the actual sense of the word), and haven’t turned back since. A brief synopsis of the series as a whole: Monsters exist in nearly every stripe: vampires, werewolves, succubi, zombies, golems, etc.  You think of some tale you’ve heard sitting around the campfire, and they exist.  Luckily there are […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo