Cannonball Read 18

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Russians created Pushkin, Rachmaninoff, and Petrushka the homicidal puppet. What could Sesame Street teach them?

Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Lance Rogoff

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CBR18 Bingo - Middle: Between 1st world problems and 3rd world problems, there is Sesame Street. I mean, there are 2nd world problems. This book is about Russia’s problems after the collapse of the 2nd world and Sesame Street, with the author in the middle of the storm. Muppets in Moscow: The … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:39 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , ·

CBR BINGO: Middle—”How much shower stuff does he think one woman needs for a month? It’s like how NASA tried to send Sally Ride to space for one week with a hundred tampons ‘just in case’.”

Happy Medium by Sarah Adler

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This was fine! I waited too long to read it. I still liked most romances back in 2024 when it was published. This one follows Gretchen, a fake medium who has a Rule that she will only take money to lie to people about their dead relatives if she can leave them better than she found them. Her most … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:24 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , , , ·

CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”

A Trade of Blood (Shadow of the Leviathan, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Robert Jackson Bennett is on a mission to document the entirety of his own made-up world by creating unsettling, weird, fantastical murders that letting him explore it, and I am here for it. This time we're exploring the complicated and fraught world of agriculture and how it intersects with … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ·

“The trouble with believing things is that they have an annoying habit of turning out not to be true”

The October Girl: Book One by Matthew Dow Smith

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I first heard of The October Girl at an event at my local indie bookstore. They were booktalking recent and soon-to-be published books and this was one of them. I enjoy reading a graphic novel from time to time and the plot seemed interesting too. Autumn Ackerman is about to graduate high school … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: ·

Reclaiming a city from past memories

The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

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Bingo Square: Repair (the best man tasks Layla with fixing things when the bride gets cold feet) Quote: Being an even moderately aware adult in the twenty-first century had taught Layla that pretty much every billionaire belonged in prison, or at the very least kept in some kind of island … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , ·

“There’s no point in denying it. Anger is my faithful companion.”

After We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

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CBR18 Bingo: Justice - Beatriz spends the whole novel searching for justice for the death of her brother and her family's exile from Cuba after the rise of Fidel Castro. Though Beatriz and her family have found safety in Palm Beach after fleeing from Cuba, she has not found peace, and rages about … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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