Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


This b**ch bites

Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan

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 cbr14bingo Verse  Level 1 (prose verses)  When I first saw Baby Teeth I thought “Finally, a book that is ‘cover different’ and still eye catching.” (Or in other words, it was not “just like all the other” covers out there.) And then “Ooooh prose poetry.” (When reading I would think, “Less poetry … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:394 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Fiction, Health, Horror, Poetry, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·

Who knew importing coffee could be so dangerous?

The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers

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Few things in life are as pleasurable for me as stumbling upon a book and being exposed to a fascinating concept I had never thought much about before. In this case, the concept is the world of high-end specialty coffee. How it is grown, harvested, processed, brewed, and then rated is fascinating. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

They Were, In Fact, Roommates

Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

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I would simply communicate with my partner what my desires and feelings were and not assume that they didn't like me as much as I liked them, leading to us both feeling awful and hoping that the casual status quo is better than ruining things by telling her how I felt. - Me, reading this book, … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Finishing the Black Stars series

These Alien Skies by C. T. Rwizi

We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

2043...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) by Nisi Shawl

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Getting back on my reviews with Cannonball Read 14 Bingo! I liked all three of the remaining stories from the Black Stars anthology. I highly recommend you check them out on audiobook. Bingo Square: Star "These Alien Skies" was my favorite story from this round. Two human space explorers are … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Audiobooks, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Return from Vacation – Various books!

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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I've just returned from our family vacation - where me, my husband and daughter caught Covid (there's not many great times to catch Covid, but catching it while staying with your extended family in a vacation rental is definitely a supremely shitty time to catch Covid). My brain still feels a bit … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:74 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Burned. Out.

Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

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Best for: All of us, collectively, as a society, who are fed up with the expectations that we just work work work. In a nutshell: Author Petersen explores how the Millennial generation has been put into basically a really shit situation. Worth quoting: “This isn’t a personal problem. It’s a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·


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