Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Don’t Go West

The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James D. Bradley

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Like a lot of Americans, I learned the broad strokes about the Pacific theater in World War II. The Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor. Attacked us! Obviously, we couldn't just stand pat. So we warred with them from island-to-island until we had no choice but to drop the atomic bomb and end the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:120 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

Finally read this classic children’s book!

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

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CBR BINGO 14: Verse, because it's a collection of classic children's poetry My father likes to send me little Brain Teaser quizzes, and recently we had one about matching the covers of classic books to their titles. I told him I got all of them correct, but I had read only 7 out of 10. I jokingly … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Children's Books, Poetry · Tags: , , , , , , ·

The Treasure Really Was the Friends We Made – Update

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

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I really needed Legends and Lattes last night. It's a gently domestic fantasy about an Orc who retires from the mercenary life to open a café. It asserts in the very best way that the true treasure is the friends we make along the way. It's a hug. It's a cuddle. It's the smell of coffee and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:61 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·

Less about Mozart’s starling than the author’s starling, but still interesting

Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

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CBR BINGO 14: Bird, because there is a bird on the cover and it tells the story of a bird (two, in fact!) Although the bird didn't appear in the movie Amadeus, Mozart owned a starling during three of the most productive years of his life, the time period when he wrote The Marriage of Figaro, … [Read more]

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

Frat Boys and Mean Girls, Gilded Age Edition

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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CBR BINGO 14: Scandal, because heroine Lily Bart is undone by scandals The House of Mirth has been on my list since I first fell in love with The Age of Innocence a quarter of a century ago. Nobody writes the glamour and treachery of Old New York as deliciously as Edith Wharton. I've been putting … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

It’s been two months, and I’m still thinking about this one.

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It has not affected the content of my review. I requested this on a whim last week after I happened to see it on NetGalley, and only the day before a YouTuber I just started watching had gotten a physical ARC. It sounded interesting, and I've … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:108 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·


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