Cannonball Read 10

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

CBR Facebook Page. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Instagram. The CBR Tumblr CBR on Goodreads

TheShitWizard

Most likely reading about murder and/or magic, with high hopes (likely to be dashed) of getting more than one cannonball for 2018.

CBR10 LevelsCBR10 participantCBR 9CBR 8

TheShitWizard's Reviews:

Stripping away the air of glamour to reveal gangsters who were actually pretty crap at robbing banks

Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn

by Leave a Comment

Go Down Together was bought immediately after I read and loved Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown, and was no disappointment. Prior to reading this, I knew the very basics about the pair – Depression era gangsters and snappy dressers, who went down together in a hail of bullets. After reading this, I feel I know the pair rather intimately – and was rather surprised to have some of the more popular myths about them demolished. Both hailing from incredibly poverty stricken backgrounds – the Barrows moved from one struggling farm to another before giving them up as a loss […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Stripping away the air of glamour to reveal gangsters who were actually pretty crap at robbing banks"

10/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:70 |

Turns out King IS capable of writing something I don’t enjoy

The Regulators by Richard Bachman

by Leave a Comment

The Regulators was something of a rarity for me. Dreamcatcher aside, I’ve not often read a Stephen King book that I didn’t really enjoy. As I’ve been mostly reading in chronological order, I’m well aware that his best is now probably behind me, but I do hope that the rest to come is still better than this. Written under the name of his alter ego, Richard Bachman, The Regulators is a companion piece to Desperation, a decent read in which an entity named Tak was roused from its slumber beneath a mining operation and lay waste to the titular town […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase The Regulators by Richard Bachman or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Turns out King IS capable of writing something I don’t enjoy"

10/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:69 |

My cat didn’t really want the extra cuddles this book made me give him

We3 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely

by Leave a Comment

It’s not often that I get a dose of the feels from a graphic novel, but then I don’t often read graphic novels about stolen pets trying to find their way home. Sure, these pets may have terrifyingly weaponised exoskeletons, heightened senses to match, and be capable of taking down large armies should they wish to, but that’s by the by. In We3, said stolen pets – a dog, a cat, and a rabbit – have become experimental prototypes of a new kind of army that high-ranking military types are eager to deploy – each of the animals brings their […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase We3 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "My cat didn’t really want the extra cuddles this book made me give him"

10/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:68 |

A love story I could really get behind

Spiderman/Deadpool Volume 1: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly; Ed McGuinness

by 2 Comments

The final item of my Deadpool birthday goodies (that I’ve been stringing out since May), pretty much every moment of this was an absolute blast, so much so that I’ve already put the remaining volumes on my Christmas wishlist. In Volume 1: Isn’t It Bromantic, we find Deadpool wooing Spiderman in the hopes of them becoming BFFs. There’s nothing he won’t do to win Spidey over, including tricking Thor into a double-date (resulting in a Ladies Night to remember at the Hellhouse club), but there’s a pretty big obstacle in his way – he’s also been contracted to kill Peter […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Spiderman/Deadpool Volume 1: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly; Ed McGuinness or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "A love story I could really get behind"

9/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:67 |

Horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

by 2 Comments

Sometimes you come across a book that is so mind-blowingly good, you immediately go out and purchase every book ever written by the author. The Road to Jonestown was such a book. A huge, fat book that’s more than worth the effort, it tells you everything you ever wanted to know and more about the Reverend Jim Jones, his followers, just how he got hundreds of otherwise intelligent people to cede control of every aspect of their lives, and the sequence of events that led to the terrible loss of nearly one thousand lives in the Guyanese jungle. Starting with […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "Horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure"

9/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

War, what is it good for? (A bloody good book, that’s what)

Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

by Leave a Comment

Having devoured the rest of the Kate Daniels series earlier this year, I pre-ordered this and read it as soon as it came out (although stupid work has got in the stupid way of reviewing ever since). Magic Triumphs made for a great finale to a fantastic series – I’ll definitely miss having more Kate to look forward to. So…War has been looming for post-shift Atlanta ever since Kate laid claim to the land, making her a direct obstacle to her father’s quest for domination. Still navigating the new politics brought about by having split from the Pack, she’s now […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "War, what is it good for? (A bloody good book, that’s what)"

9/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:65 |

So good I ignored everyone and everything until I’d finished

Circe by Madeline Miller

by 3 Comments

Unlike the rest of the world (or so it occasionally seems), I haven’t read The Song of Achilles, mostly due to my being possession of a fiery hatred of Achilles that tends to ruin anything he happens to be mentioned in. However, I did note all of the squealing going on around it and so, when people started talking about Circe, promptly splurged on it. I was not disappointed. Taking another figure from the myths – one mostly known for turning Odysseus’ men into pigs when they stopped off at her island on their way home from Troy – Miller […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Circe by Madeline Miller or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "So good I ignored everyone and everything until I’d finished"

9/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:64 |

The best thing about this book is its title.

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

by 2 Comments

I’ve never seen the film adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, but the trailers for the new BBC series piqued my interest and so I thought it high time I read this classic tale of mystery….I don’t know what I was expecting, but whatever it was, it wasn’t this.  Back in 1900, most of the pupils of a stuffy Australian girl’s boarding school are going on a picnic to a local beauty spot, Hanging Rock. While there, a small group of girls decides to go for a walk. One of them returns later, hysterical and alone, and unable to tell […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Purchase Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay or any item from amazon via our link.

Funds raised are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name.

Share the post "The best thing about this book is its title."

9/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:63 |


Follow CBR on Instagram

Shop on Amazon and Support CBR

Buy Original Cannonballer Prisco's book and help CBR!

Ad Partner