Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I want to document the way food transforms the lives of people as people transform food.

Koshersoul by Michael W. Twitty

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July did not go the way I thought it would. instead of moving out of a very stressful 6 weeks dealing with health issues, I got drop kicked into a very stressful month of needing to find a new place to live, packing and moving and managing a whole bunch of people's emotions. I meant to get … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:82 · Genres: Cooking/Food, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Family Secrets Never Seem to Be Happy Ones

Leave Well Alone by AJ Campbell

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CBR Bingo: New Leave Well Alone by AJ Campbell features Eva Barnes, the protagonist of what seems to be the first in a series. Campbell is a new suspense writer I came across in looking for thrillers that don’t involve eyeballs in nether regions. The book follows the story of Eva, a law student … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: , ·

“Are you threatening me with a good time, Drew Sullivan?” “I don’t make threats, Dr. Kelley. I make promises.”

The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon

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I have enjoyed Farrah Rochon’s Boyfriend Project series a lot and The Hookup Plan has been one of my most anticipated reads this year. In the first book, The Boyfriend Project, Rochon created three women who meet and become friends when they all find themselves dating the same guy. The three - … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

Click, Click, Boom!

The Wicked and the Divine Book 1: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, Clayton Cowles

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CBR Bingo Center Square: Star This graphic novel collects the series the Wicked and the Divine, the first 5 comic books. The idea of the series is that every ninety years 12 gods incarnate as human beings. They become part of The Pantheon, and in two years they are dead. In this incarnation, the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

A story of profound neglect and trauma dressed up as…gumption, I guess?

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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I put off reading this book for a long time. I get really skeptical of those summer blockbuster books that everyone just loses their minds over. The only reason I ended up reading this book is because my book club picked it as their July book. For me, this book did not live up to the hype. At … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

“I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God”

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Bingo: Monster (The Sacklers themselves, in case that's not obvious) I read Say Nothing a few months ago, and it was excellent--so good that Empire of Pain immediately shot to the top of my TBR list. Empire of Pain is the story of the Sackler family--the family behind Purdue Pharma, the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·


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