Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


January 2023 Leftovers

Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly

Queen of Thieves by Beezy Marsh

Anxious People by Frederick Backman

The Dead Season by Tessa Wegert

A Diet of Treacle by Lawrence Block

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg

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Here are brief reviews for the books I read in 2023 that I either didn't have time to review or that didn't merit 250 words... Two Kinds of Truth*** First new read of 2023! I continue to plow through the Bosch series. I enjoyed most of what I read recently but this was just blah. Boring, … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Pura Satis

How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

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Someone on Pajiba recommended How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis and when I looked it up I saw a lovely YouTube video by the author that was so warm and smart and inclusive that I immediately put the book on hold with my library system. Truth be told I have become an unabashedly mediocre … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

“I said, could I f*ck you, and you said, yes please, and I thought, there’s manners. Proper breeding, that is.”

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles

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Sometimes I'll get a book that I know I'm going to like a lot and I'm reluctant to read it because then it will have been read. I got my e-arc quite some time ago and was resistant to reading it for weeks. And then I finally opened it yesterday and read with brief breaks for sleep and food. I knew I … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it.

Gold by Rumi

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A great first meeting story.  The year was 1244, when Rumi met Shams in a bazaar in Konya, Persia.  Rumi was a young scholar, and Shams, about twenty years older, was a wandering free thinker.  They got to discussing literature, and Shams challenged Rumi to find his own voice.  Over the course of … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Alan Rickman: a bit catty, a bit snobby, and maybe a bit dirty?

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman (Author) Rima Horton (Afterword), Emma Thompson (Contributor)

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Do you have 'Bathroom books' or know what they are? For me, a bathroom book is a book you can take up or put down easily and not worry too much about losing your place. This book is the absolute perfect bathroom book. In fact, I would argue it is best read in small chunks a year at a time. It is not … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

We were boys who had created ourselves

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore

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Cannonball passport- New author How lovely is that cover? Self-Made Boys is a retelling of the Great Gatsby by Anna-Marie McLemore. I picked this up from the library after it was recommended on the podcast Worst Bestsellers. At the end of the year they do a compilation of the best books they read … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: , , , ·


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