Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Isolated South Sea island. What could go wrong?

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

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cbr15bingo Relation”ship” Reckless?  Hmm.  Not the adjective I’d use.  Girls without a plan.  Girls who bounce from one dire situation to another without a whole lot of forethought.  Girls who rely on their good looks to temporarily find themselves in a cushy position, but never learn how to leverage it.  Girls who live in a sketchy rich bro world and don’t mind it at all.  Girls who eventually start dying left and right.  At least the bros do as well, so there’s that. This book […]

“It was like drinking the feeling of being peaceful.”

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

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Bingo Square: Strange Worlds Viv is an orc who’s tired of the adventuring life of bounties and bloodshed. She’s ready for something else. Taking her savings and a magical doo-dad that may or may not bring your heart’s desire, she sets off to the city of Thune to make her fresh start. Which for Viv is opening a coffee shop. Which would be fine, if people there knew what coffee was. But as Viv starts to build her shop, something amazing happens. People show up. […]

“Honor without intelligence is a disaster. Honor could lose the war.”

The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara

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Cbr13bingo violence I read The Killer Angels about 20 years ago, and my lasting recollection was that I was surprised at how it drew me in and how much I liked it. Surprised because this novel, a work of historical fiction, is focused on the most momentous battle of the Civil War – Gettysburg. As much as I enjoy history and historical fiction, military history has never been terribly interesting to me. Michael Shaara accomplished something amazing with this novel: he made me interested in […]

Getting paid to stand around being scary

Standing Heavy by gauZ'

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Bingo: Africa; Postcard: Côte d’Ivoire In Nouchi, the popular slang of the Ivoirian city of Abidjan, standing heavy means a lowly paid job that keeps the employee on their feet.  This witty novel takes us into the heads of young men from Côte d’Ivoire at the end of long chains of Parisian subcontracted security services, their lack of papers overlooked so long as they meet the racist morphological profile – heavy-set, tall, strong, deferential, and scary.  Getting paid for standing is not as easy as […]

Don’t Become the Story

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

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CBR 15 Bingo: On the Air – This book is about a pair of authors in pursuit of the truth about a twenty year-old murder-suicide case – but what information will be revealed to the public is still up for debate. Amanda is a well-known true crime author who has been invited to write a book about the mysterious case of the Alperton Angels, a small cult which twenty years ago committed mass suicide after attempting to sacrifice an infant they believed to be the […]

Dash and Davis star in Reno Rendezvous!

It Happened One Fight by Maureen Lee Lenker

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He’d shown her that there was another way than what she’d always believed love to be. That love could be quiet and mysterious. That a person could be her port in a storm rather than the hurricane itself.” It Happened One Fight It Happened One Fight is Entertainment Weekly columnist Maureen Lee Lenker’s debut novel. Patti Murin narrates well, giving each character a distinctive voice. Joan Davis and Dash Howard are gold together on the screen, but they hate each other off screen. Well, Joan […]



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