Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

About The Chancellor

CBR 6
CBR 7
CBR 8
CBR 9
CBR10 participant
CBR11 participant
CBR12 participant
CBR13 participant
CBR14 Participant
CBR15 Participant
CBR16 Participant
CBR17 Participant
CBR18 Participant

(Learn more about this Cannonballer: The Chancellor's Quick Questions interview.)

The Chancellor's Reviews:

Sometimes a Part-Time Job is Life Defining

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

by Leave a Comment

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata My rating: 5 of 5 stars Keiko has been working at the same convenience store for 18 years. After coming across the store during a university internship, what was supposed to help her pay her student lifestyle suddenly became a more permanent job. This momentarily gets disrupted when an incel tries to manipulate her into colluding against society together. Keiko finds her voice again and stands up for herself and for what makes her feel useful. It’s not stated […]

An Alternate Space Race Timeline

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

by Leave a Comment

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Calculating Stars” is set in an alternate 1950’s in which a meteor hits the Atlantic not far off the coast of D.C. this creates a set of events in which the space race is not just a mater of furthering science but of human survival. The planet is no longer stable and creating colonies on the Moon and Mars are necessary. This also means that women are also going to be […]

Teeth are Important, Even to Young Dracula

I Love My Fangs! by Kelly Leigh Miller

by Leave a Comment

I Love My Fangs! by Kelly Leigh Miller My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dracula loves his fangs. He takes good care of them and is proud of his family trait. Much to his horror, one day one of them falls out. What can a vampire do with only one fang? Thus begins this fun kids book about baby teeth falling out in order to make way for grown up teeth. I honestly don’t remember there being kids books about teeth falling out when I […]

Those Crayons You Never Used in the Box are Just as Important as the Rest

This Book Is Gray by Lindsay Ward

by Leave a Comment

This Book Is Gray by Lindsay Ward My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a fun read aloud for kids and adults. There’s a lot of layers to the story. There’s a lesson in primary and secondary colors which leads to acceptance of others tied to fitting in. All of this is wrapped in humor that adults will appreciate more than the kids they are reading this too. All in all an enjoyable experience. Gray is feeling left out. All of the colors are […]

Obsession Leads to Destruction, or Don’t Make a Vow Lightly

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

by Leave a Comment

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Silmarillion” is a VERY different book from what most fans of “Lord of the Rings” may expect. First of all, it’s an anthology of several different works J.R.R. Tolkien had started but had never published on their own. While they are separate works, they all deal with the origins of Middle-Earth and some of the important Elvish characters, mostly Elrond, Cirdan, and Galadriel. The second thing is that this isn’t a narrative driven […]

How a Fantasy World can Help You Solve Your Real-World Problems

Riverland by Fran Wilde

by Leave a Comment

Riverland by Fran Wilde My rating: 5 of 5 stars Winner of the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Young Adult Fiction, “Riverland” tells the story to two sisters, Eleanor and Mike. From the very beginning it’s apparent things are not right in their family. Eleanor tells Mike stories to keep them calm and distract them from the tension between their mom and dad. We soon learn that the problem is their father, who is abusive and their mother, who enables him, and is manipulative herself. […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo