Cannonball Read 11

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

I just wanted to do my job.

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

by 1 Comment

This is a strong three stars for me. It’s really good in a lot of ways, still feels a little limited for some of the choices and a little thin because of them or what they reveal about the novel, but also succeeds to build a world I am interested in and a story I am invested in. So the novel is almost a perfect Venn diagram of Sara Gran, The Magicians, and The Secret Place by Tana French. Ivy Gamble lives in a world where there’s magic and magic schools, and her twin sister “abandoned” her family to go […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "I just wanted to do my job."

6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:354 |

Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations.

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann

by Leave a Comment

This is a three star in the opposite of some of my other three stars. Normally this is the kind of book I would really like — a kind of sassy or interesting young British girl dealing with her friends and family while navigating her own feelings and her growth as a person in the world. And for the most part I did like this book, but it felt like it came up short for me. So like I said, this book is a lot like a lot of other books like it. That sentence sounds kind of dumb, but […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations."

6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:353 |

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

City of Glass by Paul Auster

Ghosts by Paul Auster

The Locked Room by Paul Auster

by Leave a Comment

I think I either almost read or tried to read this when I was younger — college aged or so — and for whatever reason didn’t. I kind of wished I had stuck with it, because I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more then. That’s not to say that a) I feel like I have missed out all these years or b) that I happen to like it now. I didn’t exactly like this book, and maybe don’t feel like I have anything to say about the different parts of the series to really indicate why, so […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out."

6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:352 |

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with.

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammet

by Leave a Comment

I hate to say it but maybe I just generally don’t particularly like Dashiell Hammet novels. This is my third one this year or second plus one last year, and for whatever reason, I don’t tend to follow them very easily, want to be reading them very much, or enjoy them during or after the process. But this book is about local politics in the most violent of ways. The son of a senator is found dead and the lead in the novel, Ned Beaumont, is asked by the likely implicated local crime lord to disrupt the investigation into the […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "You might as well take your punishment and get it over with."

6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:349 |

A choice between family and being your authentic self

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

by Leave a Comment

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu isn’t quite a romance but digs into what it means to love. Lucky marries her gay friend Kris to appease her family and remain accepted by her Sri Lankan immigrant community in Boston. A marriage of convenience that works well on the surface. Everyone believes she married for love and escaped the fate of an arranged one. Kris and Lucky can be who they are together in LGBTQ spaces, taking home whoever they want. But things get tricky when Nisha comes back into Lucky’s life. Nisha is her childhood best friend and […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "A choice between family and being your authentic self"

6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Impossible Woman

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

by Leave a Comment

In July 1979, Daisy Jones and The Six, a rock n roll band, were at the height of their success. Yet after a concert in the middle of the tour the band broke up, cancelling the rest of their dates. This book attempts to discover why that happened, taking us back to the days before the band had made it, when Daisy Jones and the band known as The Six were separate entities. Told more like an extended article or oral history, the book allows the main players to tell their own side of the story, while fleshing out their […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "Impossible Woman"

6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

A Tidy Little Mystery

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

by 4 Comments

I’m in the process of reading all the Hercule Poirot mysteries, but the waitlist for the ebooks at my library is ridiculously long. When I saw that the first Miss Marple mystery was available as an audiobook, I thought it might be a good choice while I wait. The Murder at the Vicarage audiobook is read almost like a play, with a different person voicing each character, and I thought that might be fun as well. The title pretty much sums up the plot: Colonel Protheroe is indeed found murdered at the vicarage, and as he was generally disliked by […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "A Tidy Little Mystery"

6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Where It All Began

Carrie by Stephen King

by Leave a Comment

There’s not a lot to say about reading Carrie because everyone already knows the story. I did and I hadn’t even the seen either of the movie adaptations. Carrie is bullied at school because she her strict religious upbringing has left her a near-total outcast from normal teenage society. When she gets her long-delayed first period during a post-gym class shower, she freaks out because she thinks that she’s bleeding to death. The other girls think this is hilarious and mock Carrie by throwing sanitary napkins at her and shouting “Plug it up!” What the girls in the shower don’t […]

Help Support Cannonball Read

Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

Share the post "Where It All Began"

6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |


Follow CBR on Instagram

Shop on Amazon and Support CBR

Buy Original Cannonballer Prisco's book and help CBR!

Ad Partner