Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


So many people spent their lives wishing to be understood. All Alice wanted was more time.

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

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CBR14BINGO: Time Square (Hitting the nail on the head here. Very literal. Time in the title. The whole plot is about Time. You get it.) Alice is about to turn 40. A milestone birthday for anyone, but particularly for someone who generally keeps their life on an unproblematic even keel. She … [Read more]

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

..they suspended their arguments, united for once in their astonishment at the unusual spectacle of an elephant lumbering across the square.

The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh

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CBR14 BINGO: Elephant Square (Another literal one. Sometimes googling for the square yields great results, sometimes not so much. ) In 1940s Belfast, a young woman working at the local zoo sees the arrival of a new baby elephant as her opportunity to prove herself. Hoping to become the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: , , , , ·

Carrie Soto is Back

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This is probably my favorite of the Taylor Jenkins Reid books so far. Carrie Soto appears early in Malibu Rising as the tennis star who crashes figuratively into one the character's life. In this book she is the star and narrates almost the whole novel, minus the interpolation of media surrounding … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:528 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

A heart removed, returned, and gifted: Maiden, Mother, Crone

The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

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CBR14 Bingo: "Cold" Bingo! - Winter lasts for three years before the start of Ragnarok. Mobius_Walker's  review of The Witch's Heart brought it to my attention last year during bingo and now it's my turn to review The Witch's Heart for bingo.  My knowledge of Norse mythology is sketchy at best.  … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

“Nothing in Jane’s experience had ever encouraged her to be any kinder to herself than others were.”

Who's That Earl? by Susanna Craig

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Plot: Jane and Thomas spent a few short weeks together one summer before he was shipped off by the military and she was run off by her family. By fluke, Thomas is recalled to England to discover that he'd inherited a title he had no knowledge of and a run down castle he hasn't visited since he was … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·

“I don’t like mice.” “I will be as quiet as your favorite quiet thing.”

What Kind of Day by Mina V Esguerra

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Who is this witch that can write novellas about a one day romance and make it good? Plot: Naya loves her hometown of Manila. Not the one tourists get, but the real one. So much so that after having a Millenial quarter-life crisis, she's now running one of the most exclusive tours in the city as a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·


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