Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


One Good Book About Edward VIII and One Bad Book

The Woman Before Wallis by Andrew Rose

Traitor King by Andrew Lownie

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These two books contrast very well in terms of how to do historical research and writing well versus how to do it lazily and sloppily. Andrew Lownie's Traitor King is a great example of deep, serious research combined with strong, clear writing. Lownie makes an extremely well-sourced case for the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:22 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , , , , ·

The series ended with the softest and boringest of whimpers

Grace Under Fire by Julie Garwood

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Oh nostalgia, you fickle fickle tricky beast. I read Julie Garwood because my mom read Julie Garwood. When I was a pre-teen and desperately needed something new to read that wasn't a kids book nor school book I found on one of my mom's numerous book cases called Saving Grace. It was about an … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: ·

“Our past whispers in our ears, whether we hear it or not.”

The Shortest History of England by James Hawes

The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes

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Both of these books by James Hawes cover several thousand years of history in about 230-270 pages, so they do live up to the title. There are probably shorter pocket histories out there, but these will give you a pretty clear-eyed overview of the two countries. I liked The Shortest History of … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: History · Tags: , , ·

Community is better than going it alone

The Demon Inside Me by Chace Verity

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I adore Chace Verity's queer demon romances. Their human characters are working class and their sensibilities are solidly anti-bootstraps. Colby works at a low end big box store where, as he says, dreams go to die. Colby makes enough to pay rent and occasionally have a night out with the guys he has … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:25 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

His work can be seen along the tunnel walls in the darkest parts of the transit system

Pitch Black by Youme and Anthony Horton

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So, You're and artist? Isn't everyone?   That conversation of the above line is at the end of the beginning of Pitch Black (I am seeing the title as just Pitch Black and as Pitch Black: don’t be skerd but I will go with just Pitch Black). The rest of the book will deal with probably the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:193 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

The known and maybe you’ll figure out

What Will I Discover by Tanya Lloyd Kyi

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CBR15Passport, Genre (science simplified & how you can do it) What Will I Discover is at the surface an easy story. It is just about scientists and what they know, but then it goes deeper into what they do not know. And our narrator starts explaining all the wonderful things that are still … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:192 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , ·


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