Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“She felt she was a bottomless pit of memories, and she was only fifteen. What on earth must it be like when you reached the Duchy’s age? You’d hardly be able to think at all for them; it would be like having so much furniture in a room that there was nowhere left to move.”

Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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CBR18 Bingo: Season – The Cazalets are coming into a new season of their lives with the war on, the youngest son Rupert away in France, and new members of the family being born while others are dying. World War Two is now on, and come crashing into the lives of the Cazalets, a clan of well-off English wood dealers. However, they still have their own domestic dramas to deal with closer at home. This is the second book in the Cazalet Chronicles- I read the […]

And now we wait

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me: Maggie the Undying I by Ilona Andrews

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Cbr18bingo 26 (published in 2026) This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the first volume in what I hope will be a multi-volume series by Ilona Andrews. I loved this story full of magic, mystery, danger and possible romance. It starts with a familiar trope —  the protagonist finds herself plunked into her favorite fantasy novel series where her actions can change the direction of the story and her life is in danger. I’ve enjoyed Sarah Rees Brennan’s The Time of Iron series which has […]

Save The …. well everything!

Save Our Forest! (Cross My Heart, #2) by Nora Dåsnes and Lise Laerdal Bryn

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If you have read Cross My Heart and Never Lie (volume 1 of the Cross My Heart series) than you know a little about  the characters that will show up in Save Our Forest! (Cross My Heart, #2) by Nora Dåsnes and translator Lise Laerdal Bryn. Now if you do not know book one, that is fine as this time around we focus on a second character and person from the first is present but not the focus. There are one or two pieces of […]

You know that boyfriend of mine….?

My Giant Nerd Boyfriend: Volume 1 by Yen Ee

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My Giant Nerd Boyfriend: Volume 1 by Yen Ee is a sweet, fun, and reflective set of comics about how Ee makes the everyday more fantastic. Mentions of illness and death are handled mildly but they are just part of life, so it is cleverly intertwined and makes it sensitive to all types of personalities that are reading.. I read it via online reader and it is due mid Aug 2026, and though it is set during a year or two of Covid, it is […]

For the solitary raven in all of us

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

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CBR18 BINGO: Map (Ooh, look! Maps in the front matter.) Oh you beautiful ravens, you truly are magnificent. It seems like it’s been eons since I’ve been as thoroughly captivated by a fantasy world as I was by the one Antonia Hodgson weaves in The Raven Scholar. This novel doesn’t just have intricate world building; it has political tension, mystery, complex characters, and light comedy. Did I merely give in to the hype when I decided to read it, or did I listen to the […]

Green Island, Grey People

Caribee by Christopher Nicole

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CBR18 Bingo: Versus – Lots of conflict in this book – between the English and the Caribs and the Spanish, but also (with a strong Oedipal flavor) the conflict between father and son. Finding himself out of favor with the king, Tom Warner and his young son embark for the New World, hoping to find their fortunes in rainy Guyana. But it turns out that they may lay instead in lush green St. Kitt’s – if they can manage to keep alive, of course. About […]



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