Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A Delicious Bundle of Romance for a Great Cause

Tasty Treats by Courtney Milan, S.A. Chant, Erin McRae, Racheline Maltese, Eli Wray, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Jackie Lau, Claudie Arsenault, Valentine Wheeler, Missy Jane, Reina M. Williams, Susannah Nix, Stacey Agdern, Shannon O'Conner

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The State of Texas hasn't been very friendly to trans folks for a long time, but right now the current Governor and the most recent Legislature are actively hostile. They are targeting trans kids and their families, threatening to charge adults who support their non-binary and trans kids with child … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:100 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

“I am a pawn in other peoples’ power games”

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

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CBR14Bingo: Hot - The spice is very high with this one, if also very bloody. I had these on my TBR for a while when they were previously self-published as the Bloodline Vampires novella series. So of course I jumped at the chance to read an ARC of the books released in one volume. This is pure … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:76 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

Happy Birthday Nona

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series) by Tamsyn Muir

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*Looks around sneakily*  Mild spoilers for the series in the review, more pressing ones have had the whiteout treatment. Yeah, split me Tipex.   Oh look, it’s a surprise book! When I first picked up Gideon the Ninth a few years back, it was advertised as being part one of a trilogy. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Franz Kafka got together with Charles Dickens and wrote an episode of the X-Files based on Little Shop of Horrors

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

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CBR BINGO 14: Funky: Where Steampunk meets your nightmares "The city reeked. But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

What we talk about when we talk about grief, and marriage, and … and … and …

All of This by Rebecca Woolf

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Bingo square - new (I let this book jump over quite a few others in my TBR pile, messing up library due date timelines, because I was that excited to read it) (BINGO! bodies - elephant) I loved reading Rebecca Woolf's blog, Girls Gone Child, from the early years when I was also building my family … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:91 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , ·

I Should Have Known By The Title…

On Being Nice by The School of Life

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Best for: I am not going to recommend this to anyone, though I could imagine that perhaps fans of Jordan Peterson might find this to be right for them? Not for any specific reason, just a feeling I have. In a nutshell: The best I can describe this is as the book form of one of those personality … [Read more]

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


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