Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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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.

 

…a great experience in a park typically doesn’t happen in a few minutes.

Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share

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CBR15 BINGO (Guide square: all about the NPS and the jags that give them bad reviews on Yelp.) BINGO! Hold Steady to Nostalgia BINGO! In the Wild to Edibles I think I first found @subparparks on Instagram during the pandemic. I can’t remember the first post that I saw, but I laughed out loud at the ridiculousness of some people. Amber Share’s account blends her love of lettering and illustration with her love of the national parks in the U.S. After reading a one-star Yelp […]

From Preservatives to Currency to Warfare: A Salty Journey

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

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Ketchup was once a fish sauce that was made with anchovies. It was an American who first came up with tomato ketchup. This is one of many interesting bits of trivia that stood out in Salt: A World History. Others include: the Chinese were using natural gas to cook (to heat brine to obtain salt) almost 2,000 years ago. the term “red herring” came from the early New England settlers leaving red herring along their trail when they hunted in order to confuse wolves. the […]

Truth Killzzz

What Meets the Eye: A Mystery by Alex Kenna

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My goodness, what a read! If you like modern mysteries, seedy underbellies, art weirdies, or flawed people trying to do the right thing in an ambiguous world, this is yer book! Or audiobook! Or papyrus – however you enjoy books, try this one. Alex Kenna went to art school and law school and was a prosecutor; therefore, she is the perfect person to write a mystery set in the L.A. art world about an ex-cop trying to navigate the legal system. Kate Myles was a […]

“It’s hard to stop being afraid when the whole world is literally full of monsters.”

City of Nightmares by Rebecca Schaeffer

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Look, when the book’s blurb starts out with “ever since her sister became a man-eating spider”, how in the world could I not pick up this book? And while I was initially put off by the cover (seriously, it doesn’t not match the book at all), I’m so glad I picked this up. It’s a quirky story but one I very much enjoyed. For over a hundred years, people have been afraid of Nightmares. If you dream, you have a chance of turning into a […]

Power Moves

I Feed Her To the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

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It has been nearly a month since I finished this book and I’ve been attempting to write this in a back corner of my mind since then. I still don’t know how to say exactly what I want to say, but I must say something so here goes. THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING MIND BLOWING STARTLINGLY ORIGINAL AND TOUCHING AND NOW YOU SHOULD READ IT. Damn, that word count isn’t enough. Let’s do better. I Feed Her… came to my attention through social media, an author […]

Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan

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The number of times I had to pick my jaw up off the floor while reading this…too many to count. Maureen Ryan is now one of my favorite authors. She did not hold back at all, and I loved the snark and straight up reads she dished out in Burn It Down without it ever feeling salacious or slanderous. She has clearly worked a very long time in the industry and this book was her way of exposing the BS she has seen and experienced. While most […]



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