Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Ghosts of Every Flavor

Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season by ed. Tanya Kirk

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So this is probably very American of me, but I did not realize, Dickens Christmas Carol notwithstanding, that ghost stories are apparently a British Christmas tradition.  Hereabouts, Halloween is the spooky season.  But here we have a collection of late 19th and early 20th century ghostly tales … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: , , , , , ·

Baking *is* Therapy

Mind Over Batter by Jack Hazen

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A whole book talking about baking as therapy! From a therapist and a baker! This is so up my alley. I bake for sanity, I make food for people as a love language. If I can't bake I get antsy. I think this is a mostly excellent book. Hazen connects recipes to aspects of mental health that he wants … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:124 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Try this one in the summer

A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion

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This novel was pretty good, but for some reason I expected something completely different going in. Will I ever learn - expectations about any novel are a surefire way to be a disappointed reader. I picked this book up because it was suggested as thriller - and I assumed it would work well as a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:112 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

The details behind the politics

The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager

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There's been a lot of discussion of abortion lately--for obvious reasons. Full disclosure: I feel very strongly that the government should not force women to have unwanted children or butt into their healthcare decisions, so I was very angry about the recent Supreme Court decision. Right about that … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Well-written but not for me.

I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn't affected the content of my review. I don't think Courtney Summers is for me. I've tried three of her books now. This is an extremely well-written and timely young adult thriller that is supposedly about the death of a young girl … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:191 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·

“Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.”

Hidden Figures by Margo Lee Shetterly

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I wanted to like this book a whole lot more than I did. It was just okay. Very informative; kind of dull. I feel like a big jerk saying I liked the movie better, but I liked the movie better. I know this is an unfair comparison because the movie takes just a portion of the information in here and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:190 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·


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