Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Not What I Was Expecting? Maybe?

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories by Karen Russell

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I absolutely loved Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove short story collection, but was really disappointed in Swamplandia!, so when I saw she had another short story collection, I was so excited to read more of her short works. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves was....not what I was … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Fun Behind-The-Scenes Stories

The Office BFFs: Tales From The Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There by Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey

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Best for: Fans of either The Office TV show, or The Office Ladies podcast In a nutshell: Jenna ‘Pam’ Fischer and Angela ‘Angela’ Kinsey share stories of their time on The Office, which led to them becoming best friends. Worth quoting: N/A (audio book) Why I chose it: It was suggested by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: , ·

Sequels get the job done

Clash (Click, #4) by Kayla Miller

Gina: The Girl Who Broke the World (Hilo #7) by Judd Winick

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Sequels are interesting parts of an author’s catalog. Sometimes you like them, and sometimes not. Sometimes they are too much like the others and therefore, you fall out with them as they have nothing new to say. And sometimes they are what keeps us reading. And two series that have been all that … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:438 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

The author might be hiding away in Donegal, but these books are not!

The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan

The Space Between by Meg Grehan

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Meg Grehan came on my radar recently with Baby Teeth. I was intrigued for many reasons; I had read another book titled Baby Teeth and wondering how it compared. I was interested as the cover was romantic, old fashioned, but screamed modern. The colors were both perfect and overly done at first … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:436 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Health, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Soylent Green is people!

Technopoly by Neil Postman

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It’s nearly impossible for contemporary critical thinkers to write about our relationship with technology without referencing Postman’s Technopoly. While it was originally published thirty years ago, many of its points and predictions remain as relevant as ever. However, Postman also gets a lot … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Page-turner mystery series alert

Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

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Fortune Favors the Dead is the first book in the “Pentecost and Parker” mystery series. If you like a little bit of Sherlock Holmes and a little bit of hard-boiled noir, this could be the series for you! The Pentecost half of the series is the (in)famous NYC private detective, Ms. Pentecost. Ms. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , , ·


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