Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Perhaps the most important truth I’ve learned across the whole of my life is that it’s only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.”

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

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I may be the only person on earth that didn't like this book. I was certainly the only person in my library book club that didn't. We went around the room giving our ratings out of five, and it was 4s and 5s all around (and one 7!) and me, with my 2. I stand by it. This book was not my jam. The … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

February 2023 Leftovers

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two Goats, and the Era That Remade the World's Game by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

The Title: The Story of the First Division by Scott Murray

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

The Fiancée by Kate White

The Guns of Heaven by Pete Hamill

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Hey on the last day of the month, it finally snowed in New York! Huzzah! Dead Wind**** I can’t talk about why I like this book without even the mildest of spoilers if you’ve been following the series. So I’ll talk about what I appreciate. I’ve been in an on-and-off reading slump the last two … [Read more]

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“He was wrong, somehow, and he wanted to be all right, but it was almost as if there was some secret nobody would tell him, so he was always going to be stuck outside.”

Sons from Afar (Tillerman Cycle #6) by Cynthia Voigt

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In book six of The Tillerman Cycle, we spend time with James, the Tillerman family's deepest thinker, and in many respects, its most troubled family member. Sweet Maybeth, though clearly developmentally disabled, has her siblings to look out for her and though academically challenged, is a popular … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , ·

One of my year’s best already?

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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This historic drama has all the elements I love about a book - great characters and a compelling story that we follow through several generations of the same family, from Korea to Japan and beyond. In the background of Pachinko is Japan's occupation of Korea and the experience of Koreans in Japan … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

She had sex before pizza, which didn’t surprise her in the least.

Identity by Nora Roberts

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I have an occasional argument with a friend who is certain that Nora Roberts has a stable of ghost writers and I am certain that she writes every word of her own books because the author voice is so consistent. I haven't actually read a new Nora Roberts book in a few years, but Identity was like … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , ·

Hex the Patriarchy

VenCo: A Novel by By Cherie Dimaline

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I will automatically read any books about witches or libraries, my two weaknesses. If I ever found a book about a witch library I would probably explode. VenCo fortunately is not that book. Within the first few pages we are greeted by the leaders of the North American covens (CoVen=VenCo). A … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured · Tags: , , ·


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