Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

so, here goes the same resolution I make every year: to review all the books that I’ve read in a timely fashion !

The Long Game by Rachel Reid

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Look did I really mean to have this book be the first thing that I read in 2026 ? no. Was it sort of what I expected, which is to say average and a little bit clunky? yes. Did I however, end up reading this in one unbroken stretch from about 2:30 to 4:30 a.m.? yes, so check and mate Rachel Reid. I went back and forth for a little bit as to whether I wanted to read this book. I watched the show before […]

Cold magic, revolution, and love

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott

Cold Fire by Kate Elliott

Cold Steel by Kate Elliott

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This review is for emmalita.  I haven’t been writing reviews in months due to life reasons but I wanted to share with her how awesome I found this trilogy.  Instead of writing her a bunch of texts, I decided it was time to write a review.  Emmalita introduced me to Kate Elliott with The Keeper’s Six.  Earlier this year I devoured Elliott’s’ The Witch Roads and it got me wanting to explore her back catalog so I got the audiobook version of Cold Magic, book one […]

Smut at its finest: Lights Out

Lights Out by Navessa Allen

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Lights Out was smut at its finest. A trauma ER nurse crushes on a sexy masked man via social media. She dares him to dirty things to her, never expecting anything. It was fantasy to blow off steam after work…until things get very, very real. MILD SPOILERS  Josh (the masked man) comes across Aly’s (the nurse) spicy comment and realizes he might know her IRL. It starts with some mild stalking, but ramps up over the course of the story. Josh is a shut-in and […]

The Best and Worst Books of CBR17

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What’s the best book you read this year? Are you still looking for that 5 star read to top off your shelf? Or do you need to know what book to put back on the shelf? Well, your fellow Cannonballers are here to help you out. We’ve got the Best and Worst reads of the year ready for you. (These are books published in any year but were read in 2025.) Take a look over at Pajiba, and find out what books you can pick […]

Registration for CBR18 is Open

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Cannonball Read is an annual, memorial book challenge to read and review 52 books in a year. Or 26. Or 13. Choose your level and read to meet your goal all while fundraising for the American Cancer Society in the memory of AlabamaPink. Find out how you can support the Cannonball Read mission today.  

In which I write 1,200 words about non-book things

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There is a long history of “public intellectuals” in America. Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton all the way down to Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag. When I was a younger man, I became fascinated with the idea of a public intelligentsia. Not any specific person, but the idea of knowledgeable, erudite experts who wrote and spoke for public, rather than academic, consumption. When YouTube became a thing and old clips that had previously been difficult to find became readily available to anyone with an interest, […]



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