Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

You can read Orlando 1 OR Orlando 2 (part one)

Orlando: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Queer Classic by Susanne Kuhlendahl

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Orlando: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Queer Classic by Virginia Woolf and adapted by Susanne Kuhlendahl is marked as a graphic novel adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s feminist classic, which tells the story of a passionate young nobleman traveling through time in the body of a woman.  Say, whaaaat?  I had NO idea this was what the book was about!  I admit, I might have been an English major and worked in a bookstore for several years, but I had never had this book […]

Well, it made me learn some history about alcohol

The Bitter End Birding Society by Amanda Cox

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Bingo Square: Bird (there’s a whole bird watching group – and it’s in the title) Another book I only read for a book club! This was the March choice for the Southern lit one, and I didn’t really do any research before starting it, just read the quick blurb on the back to know what the story was about. While there was a plot about a preacher’s son and the moonshiner’s daughter, it wasn’t until I was over halfway through that I started thinking there […]

When vibe reads aren’t vibing

Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev A.C. Rosen

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Bingo squares: Left (Phoebe Berman feels Left behind with her 30th birthday and her sister’s wedding approaching) Friends (Disaster Gay Detective Agency follows a group of Friends). This might seem like an odd pairing to review together but it’s basically because I read these somewhat close together and both left me disappointed in a similar way: they were  books I expected to be fun, breezy reads that ended up not being as fun or funny as I wanted and ultimately were a bit tedious, even. […]

Knocking Out Three BINGO Squares

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

His Face Is the Sun by Michelle Jabes Corpora

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CBR18 BINGO: Versus (for Chosen Ones – good vs evil), Wealth (Reluctant Fundamentalist), and Map (His Face Is the Sun) Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth What happens as the dust settles after defeating the world’s greatest evil, in this case the Dark One? That’s the premise of this interesting take on the chosen one trope. There was a prophecy about who the chosen one would be, but five people ending up fitting that description. They end up working together to defeat the Dark One. But that […]

The Trick or Treating Treat

The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen Pham

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At first, I thought Bingo Square 26 cbr18bingo would be a hard one to find a book for. I then remembered that author Shannon Hale’s birthday is January 26 and I had read a book by them that is out and about. It was not the 26th online reader copy that I read, but I could pretend it was.  The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen Pham (illustrator) is a cute addition to the Princess In Black […]

They go together like hocus and pocus.

Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon

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Recently I got on an Ursula Vernon reading kick. I was amazed that I had known about her, but never read anything. And then when I learned they were T. Kingfisher, too, I was intrigued. After all, when one uses two names as a writer, what does that say about the writing style? And when one writes many titles under one name, how similar are they? Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon probably is a good example of both of Vernon’s names and styles coming into […]



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