You’re a CBR volunteer, right? How long have you been volunteering, and what’s your area of expertise? I help out with Goodreads because we’re trying to create a more sustainable presence there, hopefully pull some avid readers who haven’t heard of us to the main site, but it’s so small as to be nearly insignificant. In fact, we’re always looking for more folks who, like me, can consistently do like 10 minutes of work a week to make the site better. Join us. We have […]
Dear Cannonballer
How are you doing with your Cannonball this year? Do you think you’ll meet your CBR13 goal? Or does the thought of clicking that publish button send chills down your spine? We’re getting towards the end of the first quarter of 2021, and 119 CBR13 Cannonballers* have posted a review and made it onto the Leaderboard. Did you know, though, that’s only 50% of registered participants? So, it’s literally a toss of the coin whether or not any given Cannonballer has posted a review. […]
CBR Diversions – In Praise of Difficult Women
For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating our favorite “difficult” women in books. I love reading about women who live their lives the way they want to live them, whether we call them strong, difficult, or even unlikable. It’s one of the reasons I read so much romance, it’s a genre where difficult women are rewarded with love and success. I asked four Cannonballers to share some of their favorite difficult women, fictional and real, from books. Teresalectro sings the praises of Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan: […]
CBR Diversions – It’s Never too Late to Have a Happy Childhood
In May, the CannonBookClub will discuss books that take us back to childhood. That might mean a favorite book from your childhood, or a more recent book that you wish you had read as a child. As a child and early teen, I loved books where virtuous people suffered virtuously until they were rewarded at the end. How very Victorian! Fortunately, I’ve grown past that and I’m not terribly interested in revisiting the books of my childhood. I am, however, delighted and slightly jealous of […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: dsbs42
How many times have you participated in CBR? Has it changed the way you read? This is my fourth CBR. I participated a lot early on just for fun (completely missed two in a row and then decided to lower my expectations to a half Cannonball, which I did manage) but got overwhelmed with the reviewing portion and watched from afar for a while. I decided to jump back in for a full Cannonball this year because I read so little last year (between general […]