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Waiting for the end of the world

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

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Official book description: Seven days. Seven days. The Earth might end in seven days.   When news stations start reporting that Earth has been contacted by a planet named Alma, the world is abuzz with rumors that the alien entity is giving mankind only few days to live before they hit the kill switch on civilization.   For high school truant Jesse Hewitt, though, nothing has ever felt permanent. Not the guys he hooks up with. Not the jobs his underpaid mom works so hard […]

Sometimes Your Shallowness is So Thorough, It’s Almost Like Depth (CBR12Bingo: Book Club)

Choose Wonder Over Worry by Amber Rae

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If something applies to everyone, then it’s functionally useless. Any time I see a facebook post reading “you’re beautiful and things will get better” I think “OK. And?” I guess that’s my way of saying that I’m not really a good self-help book candidate, as if the Daria quote of the title wasn’t enough of a tip-off. But, it’s what got chosen for my work book club, so I might as well unload my strongest vitriol here so as not to offend the chooser of […]

I would have liked more background and info about the rest of the crew

The Disasters by M.K. England

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#CBR12 Bingo: Violet (Obviously also works for Book Club, and will fit into Debut and maybe UnCannon and Friendship, as well)   All Nax Hall has ever dreamed of is going Ellis Station Academy and qualifying as a pilot. Unfortunately, he fails his entrance exam and is sent packing after less than twenty-four hours. Sharing his fate are Rion, Case and Zee, and while they’re all waiting for their one-way shuttle back to Earth, they are witness to a terrorist attack on the space station. The […]

Not your typical Paris bookstore novel

Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan

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Real book lovers love to read books about bookstores.  Make it a bookstore in Paris and that is even better!  I have read several bookstore in Paris books.  They usually follow a similar plot – confused woman somehow ends up owning a bookstore in Paris and her life changes – typically because of a wild romance with a wonderful Frenchman.  Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan may be about a bookstore in Paris, but the plot is unique. Leah has lost her husband.  That […]

“I don’t want you to keep downplaying the hurt you feel like you’re not even human. You keep it up – all these lies to yourself, to other people, and soon you’re not going to know who you are.” (CBR12 Bingo)

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

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My Cannonball Bingo tradition is to sit down with the square descriptions and game plan out options for what books to read for each category. I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi could qualify for several squares (this is her debut published October 2019, we read it for CBR Book Club) but I’m using it for UnCannon. The ‘Canon’ is often made up of books written by old, white men and the goal of this square is to read as far from […]



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