Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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CBR BINGO: One—R.I.P. Tree

The Killing of a Chestnut Tree (Havelock Harper Mysteries, #1) by Oliver K. Langmead

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I went to see John Green speak on his tour for Hollywood, Ending last Thursday, and at one point point in his talk, he said there are two types of people as you hit fifty years old: you either turn into a tree person or a bird person. I believe that I am turning into a tree person (I’ve read too much Tolkien, I think). So this is […]

CBR BINGO: Or—😡😭😤

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

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A book about a female serial killer? Um, not really. This is the story of a lonely little girl who bad things happen to and she turns into a lonely old woman. But heartwarming? I’m giving this a grudging 3.75 stars, bumped up 0.25 from 3.5 because it wrung salty tears out of me. They were dripping down my face, but I was upset about it. This book was so great until the ending, when it did three things I didn’t like (and almost never […]

CBR BINGO: Craft—Author writing fanfiction of her own book!

The Sixth Faction (The Sixth Faction, #1) by Veronica Roth

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This is a four star book but I’m giving it an extra .25, because I can now! And because I was so into this when it’s been so hard for me lately to really be into and finish new books. I let my curiosity get the better of me with this one. I was really into Divergent when it was first published, and then the second two books devolved into something very disappointing, which at the time made me angry, but I just don’t think […]

CBR BINGO: Middle—”How much shower stuff does he think one woman needs for a month? It’s like how NASA tried to send Sally Ride to space for one week with a hundred tampons ‘just in case’.”

Happy Medium by Sarah Adler

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This was fine! I waited too long to read it. I still liked most romances back in 2024 when it was published. This one follows Gretchen, a fake medium who has a Rule that she will only take money to lie to people about their dead relatives if she can leave them better than she found them. Her most important client pays her $10k to do an “exorcism” on the farm of her bridge partner. Gretchen of course accepts the offer, expecting to find an […]

CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”

A Trade of Blood (Shadow of the Leviathan, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Robert Jackson Bennett is on a mission to document the entirety of his own made-up world by creating unsettling, weird, fantastical murders that letting him explore it, and I am here for it. This time we’re exploring the complicated and fraught world of agriculture and how it intersects with capitalism, Romeo and Juliet-style. Also, FUNGUUSSSSS. ALSO! I had assumed that this would only be a trilogy, because his other three series are trilogies, but THERE WILL BE MORE! Maybe a lot more! (More than five, […]

CBR BINGO: Wheels—”We sluggalos have a code. That code is unity, support, family, and kneecapping bitches.”

A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) by Matt Dinniman

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I think this is in my top three of the series. The ending was one of the wildest things I’ve ever read in a book. But way too much happened here, and I have way too many thoughts to sum up my feelings, so we’re going to bullet point this one with things that I’m thinking of off the top of my head: *You love Prepotente, this is your book. I had so many feels about him, also I laughed at him quite a bit. […]



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