Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A Few Squirts of a Turkey Baster

Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: New to you authors #1 Chrysta and her sister are the daughters of a dynamic and damaged woman, a single lesbian who yearned for a child in the rather unaccepting 1980s - and found her ideal sperm donor in a hair salon. But both Debra and Jeffrey hid many secrets from … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

A cuddle bug sorta day

Secrets for the Mad: Obsessions, Confessions, and Life Lessons by Dodie

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse: The Animated Story by Charlie Mackesy

You're My Little Cuddle Bug by Nicola Edwards

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Having adored the original book, my excitement was palpable for the animated version I stumbled across thanks to my free trial of Apple TV. For me, it was one of the best Christmas presents I received. My wife wasn't really on board, but it happens. So when I saw this new version of the book with … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , , ·

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Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

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"When Harry Hamlin stood behind the pillar in the darkness of Medusa's lair in the Ray Harryhausen film Clash of the Titans, flames flickering off his shield, his face glistening with sweat, my brother and I were transfixed." So begins Natalie Haynes's book Pandora's Jar, which is not a retelling … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:21 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Quite an Epic

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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Where to start? There so much that happens in this 800-page novel, which almost defies genre. Is it science fiction? Dystopian? Horror? Probably all of those, and more. The novel starts in the near future, or what was probably the near future at the time it was written over a decade ago. Humans … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Girls Just Wanna Have . . . Fun?

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

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Think Charlie’s Angels facing their sunset years.  Far more deadly and ruthless than Farah Fawcett and her pals though, and there is four of them.  And to celebrate their retirement, the Museum (their employer) is sending them on an all-expenses paid cruise.  Hmmm.  Doesn’t really seem like the sort … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Joanna Russ (1)

The Female Man by Joanna Russ

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"I was born on a farm in Whileaway." I was thinking how funny it would be for someone to write a book called "The Male Man". I have no idea what it would be about, but it would make me laugh. This book also makes me laugh because at times it's downright hilarious. It's hard to exactly capture the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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