Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Don’t Know What to Say

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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This book floored me the other day. First off, thanks to Pajiba for highlighting this book in it’s best of the bunch year for 2018. The Best and Worst of Cannonball 10 article had this book as the best by Mrs. Smith Reads. It looked interesting based on her description, “Carmen Maria Machado’s collection of short stories is nothing short of perfection, and brings everything I was looking for in a year of reading mostly feminist, female-identified, and woman-positive fiction writers.” That sounded right up my alley […]

When Mothers Do Curses

As Old As Time by Liz Braswell

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Wow. This was a great re-telling of “Beauty and the Beast”. I loved the whole idea behind this book with the great enchantress from the stories being Belle’s mother. And reading about magical people who were afraid since they were being persecuted by those who were “normal”. The development of Belle and the Beast was great and I actually bought that Belle fell in love with him in this one. They were a great duo. Braswell changes things up a bit with the introduction of […]

A family fighting to find their place in the world

Saga Volume One by Brian K. Vaughan

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#cbr11bingo #Banned/Challenged Books Saga Volume One is classic fantasy meets classic science fiction meets classic graphic novel. We have sex (any kind you could imagine). We have drugs. We have violence (lots of violence). We have bestiality (Yes, boys and girls they went there!). And while I did not see it, I am sure there was some rock and roll but there is so much more. So much more. No wonder this series has been banned! (Again, I do not condone that, but I totally […]

Warren Zevon is not the appropriate soundtrack

The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt

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Do you have one of those books that you can pick up, open it to any page, and start reading, knowing exactly what is going on? And you find this comforting, familiar, the book equivalent of an old friend. THE SILVER WOLF by Alice Borchardt is such a book for me. It’s one of those books that I have in hardback and on my Kindle so I can read it whenever. I originally picked it up at a local bookstore that doesn’t exist anymore. I was […]

Warrior Women with Bad Attitudes

The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston

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When I spotted The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston, I had a vague memory that yesknopemaybe gave it a positive review for CBR10. I also remembered that the protagonist was a former Marine. The expectation of a legion of ass-kicking women convinced me to buy it on the spot. With the start of CBR11 Bingo, I was spurred to action to read it for the Cannonballer Says square. As the first book in Laurenston’s Call of Crows series, we are introduced to Kera Watson, the ex-military […]

Cannonballer Says….. thanks to everyone who reviewed this last year

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

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It’s my CBR11Bingo Cannonballer Says Square, thanks to: narfna, velveeter, Aquillia, Jenny S, alwaysanswerb! Before I was a CBR participant I was a CBR lurker. I am always looking for something new to read and this book- and author- got such strong reviews that I’ve had it on my ‘ok I’m finally going to get to this’ reading list for months. Miryem is the daughter of a money-lender in a small town. Her father is too soft-hearted to be any good at his chosen profession, […]



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