The end of the year is a perfect time for reflection. Let’s reflect on the most important part of your year – the books you read. First, I want to talk about the worst books I read this year. These books were a pain to read, but I did finish them (I am one of those always finish what you start people.) Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White – a read for my YA book group which we all hated, extremely violent story of sociopath […]
CBR17 Holiday Book Exchange Sign-Up
Sign up is closed! Each year Cannonball Read holds a (completely voluntary) Holiday Book Exchange, and we’re happy to continue the tradition this year. It’s a lovely part of our community here at CBR and a great way to get to know a fellow Cannonballer a little bit better. If you are able to join us in the fun of sending books we are excited for you to join our bookish end of year celebration. Whether you have posted zero reviews or more than 500, […]
CBR17 Book Bingo Reading Challenge Wrap-up
Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this bingo journey! I couldn’t do this without all of you, whether you wrote one review, or 25. None of this would happen without yesknopemaybe, who creates the best book bingo cards on the internet, and MsWas, who tells me every year that I can do this. On to the wrap-up. Initially, I wanted to make this year’s bingo categories easy, because I knew this would be a hard year for a lot of us. But then […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: a Classic mystery
Hi, Classic! Thanks so much for agreeing to participate in our interview! I see from your Cannonball Read profile that you’ve been participating in and off since CBR 9. How did you find us? I used to post on Pajiba, and reading Pajiba Love, I saw that there were often book reviews and I started to read the reviews that were linked. There were more CBR commenters back in those days, and I think it was Ms. Julien who told me about CBR and how […]
Bingo is Over!
Bingo has ended! The wrap up post will be up in a few days. Welcome to the penultimate Bingo check-in! We end at midnight Eastern time on Friday, November 7 Sunday, November 9. The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. Make sure I’ve counted all of your reviews!!!! BlackRaven – 25 reviews, card complete! carmelpie – 18 reviews, 2 bingos Classic – 25 reviews, card complete! CoffeeShopReader – 25 reviews, card complete! Debcapsfan – 4 reviews Dome’Loki – 3 reviews drmllz – 4 reviews […]
October Donation to the American Cancer Society
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve made our second donation of the year to the American Cancer Society of $400. That brings Cannonball Read’s total donations to $13,850! Many thanks to all of our recent supporters. You too can help us kick cancer’s butt by making a donation today. Please make your donation via Paypal, or donate to @cannonball-read at Venmo. If your employer participates in matching donations, please contact us to coordinate. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Cannonball Read, Inc. should be findable in any charitable database, and […]
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