Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The Question is Hugs. The Answer is Maybe not.

Hattie Hates Hugs by Sarah Hovorka

Same Love, Different Hug by Sarah Hovorka

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CBR15Passport  own (Hattie Hates Hugs) Sarah Hovorka has a thing about hugs. Now, it sounds like they mostly like them, but maybe for other people. You see in Hattie Hates Hugs Hovorka has Hattie in the uneasy and unpleasant situation of a family reunion where Hattie has a family of huggers, and … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:180 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health · Tags: , , , ·

Daphne du Maurier (2)

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

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"The first thing I noticed was the clarity of the air, and then the sharp green color of the land." This novel is kind of like Kindred, but where not much happens. Or rather, the focus is very different. Dick is visiting his friend Magnus's country house, and he's asked to sample a potion that … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:185 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Robert Middlekauff (1)

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff

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"'The use of travelling,' Doctor Johnson wrote Mrs. Thrale 'is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking about how things may be, to see them as they are.' Johnson spoke for the age in this desire to see things as they are and to avoid the dangerous imaginings of how they may … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:184 · Genres: History · Tags: ·

Stop, I’m Already Dead

Essex Dogs by Dan Jones

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I’m a Dan Jones guy. I enjoy his entertaining and well-researched history books (The Templars) and television programmes. His debut work of fiction (historical, of course) is Essex Dogs, the story of an English mercenary group invading France in the fourteenth century. The Dogs were formerly led … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , ·

“Their own words are their best memorial:” Civilian Casualties of WWII

Leningrad by Anna Reid

In the Ruins of the Reich by Douglas Botting

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Both of these books illuminate the impact of cataclysmic war on the civilian population, which is an angle I personally find much more compelling than straight military history. I am way more interested in the individual experience and the repercussions of what we in America tend to view of the last … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , , ·

I couldn’t think up a title so this is my title.

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth

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This is a tough one to rate because half of my strange reaction to it is I'm sure just bumping up a little against the writing style, but the other half is that it genuinely could have been written better in parts. There was A LOT of telling not showing, and the third-act conflict made the MC come … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Horror, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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