Cannonball Read, Inc. became an official 501(c)(3) organization in 2022, and not only that, we topped that milestone by reaching, and then exceeding, the $10,000 mark in our total donations to the American Cancer Society. To think all this began as a friendly wager on a pop culture site between a … [Read more]
“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
I’m nearly a decade late to The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. It has been on my to read list since 2016 and got pushed to the top tier of the pile last year for the Read Harder challenge (as it does take place in a big way in a bookstore). Then I never got to it but seeing that … [Read more]
's CBR15 Review No:6 ·
Genres: Fiction ·
Tags: a little romance, adoption, death and dying, Gabrielle Zevin, movie adaptation, read harder challenge, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry ·
Kathryn Moon’s Sweetverse
Baby and the Late Night Howlers by Kathryn Moon
Lola and the Millionaires parts I & II by Kathryn Moon
Bad Alpha by Kathryn Moon
Faith and the Dead End Devils by Kathryn Moon
I’m excited about writing this because none of y’all know me! These are the books I comfort reread with a disturbing regularity, and they are the sweetest, filthiest Why Choose/ABO romances out there. I just finished a buddy read with some romancelandia friends and I gotta share em with y’all as … [Read more]
's CBR15 Review No:7 ·
Genres: Fiction, Romance ·
Tags: abo romance, Kathryn Moon, omegaverse, Romance, Series, sexually explicit, why choose ·
CJ Cherryh (1)
Downbelow Station by CJ Cherryh
"The stars, like all man's other ventures, were an obvious impracticality, as rash and improbable an ambition as the first venture of man onto Earth's great oceans, or into the air, or into space." A few years ago I read the Cyteen novels, which exist in this same universe as this one, but … [Read more]
Claire Keegan (1)
Foster by Claire Keegan
"Early on a Sunday, after first Mass in Clonegal, my father, instead of taking me home, drives into deep Wexford towards the coast where my mother's people came from." This is a novella published by Claire Keegan, who was nominated for the Booker Prize last year for other short novella Small Things … [Read more]
Paul Auster (1)
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster
"I have never owned a gun." Paul Auster begins this...not quite polemic...with a story of being given a toy six shooter and watching tv and doing the kinds of things kids did (especially boys) in the US for the longest of times. I imagine it still happens, but not as much. Later he describes … [Read more]