Cannonball Read 18

It Costs A Lot to Eat this Sweet

Bakerita by Rachel Connors

April 2, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

This year for my birthday I decided to bake myself something in part because my freezer is still full from the sourdough baking times of about two months ago and I usually go for a small ice cream cake. I was assisted by a library find I may now have to purchase: Bakerita (of the blog of same name). … [Read more]

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: Bakerita, Baking, cookbook, dairy free, gluten free, paleo, Rachel Connors, vegan ·

You say goodbye, I say hello

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

April 2, 2023 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

CBR Passport - new to me author (which I think makes this my 6th official CBR passport author that I've counted, but in reality the 13th or 14th new author I've read this year, I might have to go back and do some updated accounting). I will never turn down an homage to Little Women. Although I … [Read more]

booktrovert's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ann Napolitano, CBR15Passport ·

Some Unexpected Twists

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

April 2, 2023 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: Fans of multi-perspective stories and jump back and forth across time. In a nutshell: A baby was found well taken-care of in a sparse mansion. Nearby are three adults dead by suicide. 24 years later, that same baby inherits the mansion and wants to know what happened to her parents … [Read more]

ASKReviews's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: Lisa Jewell ·

John Fowles (1)

The Ebony Tower by John Fowles

April 2, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

"David arrived at Coëtminais the afternoon after the one he had landed at Cherbourg and driven down to Avranches, where he had spent the intervening Tuesday night. " This is a collection of stories and one novella. It's actually a novella, three stories, and a translation of one of the lays of … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:203 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: john fowles ·

“There is no greater right for a woman than having a choice.”

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

April 1, 2023 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I found Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2022) on NPR's Best Books List under "eye-opening reads." It takes place in 1973 Montgomery, Alabama where Civil Townsend, a young black woman of relative wealth starts her first nursing job at a government-run, family planning clinic. Civil travels to a … [Read more]

Sophia's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Dolen Perkins-Valdez ·

“The heir and the spare.”

Spare by Prince Harry (Ghostwritten by J.R. Moehlinger)

April 1, 2023 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I'm definitely not one of those people obsessed with the royals. Their entire existence feels like something of a farce at this point, desperately holding on to a tradition and privilege that doesn't really make sense anymore. At the same time, they are undeniably famous and lead a fascinating, … [Read more]

Sophia's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Prince Harry (Ghostwritten by J.R. Moehlinger) ·

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