In the latest Cannonball Fodder, MsWas challenges us to “Take a look at your Goodreads (or real) “Want to Read” shelf, and crack open the book that has been on there the longest.” I recently went through all my bookshelves, reviewing every book that I own to determine its fate. Did I want to keep this book since I still intended to read it, it was autographed, or it had some other special sentimental value? Did it belong in the donation pile, something my friend […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: drmllz
In our January Zoom chat, drmllz and tiny_bookbot discovered they had met in real life! Cannonballers in the wild – a rare sighting! What’s your favorite subject/angle to teach as a literature and media studies lecturer and researcher? What gets your students the most fired up? I’m happy to teach most things! In my ‘have PhD, will travel’ years, which were precarious and stressful, I taught everything from post-modernism to medieval poetry to ‘the eighteenth century’ to news framing in the media, often at very short […]
CBR Diversions: “But February made me shiver” Fighting the Winter Blues
I am not a huge fan of February. I could very easily do without the Super Bowl or Valentine’s Day (don’t judge me!) It is usually cold, grey, and dark (unless it is snowy, in which case it is cold, white, and dark). Like every faithful book lover, I turn to books to fight these winter blues. I pick up a funny rom com, or a suspenseful mystery, or I return to another time with a historical fiction. Time passes as pages turn, and suddenly […]
Wrapping up CBR14
Cannonball Read, Inc. became an official 501(c)(3) organization in 2022, and not only that, we topped that milestone by reaching, and then exceeding, the $10,000 mark in our total donations to the American Cancer Society. To think all this began as a friendly wager on a pop culture site between a couple of Pajibans–AlabamaPink and Prisco! We’ve read over 27,000 different titles and written more than 49,000 book reviews. I’m in awe every day at what folks are writing… Read the full wrap-up at Pajiba.com […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: jomidi
Welcome to the Cannonball Read volunteer team! What’s your area of expertise going to be? I am hoping to help out with the 15th anniversary activities this year. I am really excited about all the possible fun things we can do to celebrate 15 years. That being said, I will help out wherever it is needed. Interested in being a CBR volunteer? Find out more and contact us! Your bio says you’re an “author groupie.” Which authors in particular do you groupie for? Well, I […]
The Cannonball Read 15 Passport Book Challenge
Welcome to the Cannonball Read 15 Passport Challenge! This is a year long, self-directed challenge. You set your own pace reading and reviewing 1-15 books. There are 5 challenges. You can read 3 books from each challenge, read up to 15 books for 1 challenge, or between 1-15 books from any combination of challenges. The challenges: Books recommended by friends Books from different countries (set in, written by authors from, translated from a language of) Different genres (or subgenres, for example space opera, hard sci-fi, […]
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