Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Grandma’s story

When I Was a Fairy by Tom Silson

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Like I said, Nobrow Press is really getting my reading flowing. We have When I Was a Fairy. Like the grandfather and his high-seas tall tales in When I Was a Pirate by Tom Silson we now have a grandmother telling a fairy tale about her youth and when she flew and soared as a fairy. Now, I was … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:286 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

“Maybe one day I’ll live somewhere and then I’ll have an address and I’ll send you a picture postcard and you can put it in your damn address book, since you seem so damn concerned about it.”

Killing Floor by Lee Child

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My husband has been reading the Jack Reacher series forever, and when the new Amazon series came out, we watched it together. The series is a perfect summer binge – full of action, enough plot to hold things together, but not so much you have to work particularly hard to follow along. I have an … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: ·

Cannonballers are so smart

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

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I’ve read and liked Robin McKinley, but somehow I managed to miss this one. Then a bunch of Cannonballers were commenting on another McKinley review that Sunshine was the best vampire book they’d ever read. When I found it at a library book sale, I was super psyched, and I was not … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Lots of Good Info

The Book About Getting Older by Dr Lucy Pollock

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Best for: Anyone, especially in the UK, who is getting older or cares for people who are getting older. In a nutshell: Geriatrician Pollock offers advice and observations about what life can be like as we age. Worth quoting: “Many of the difficulties that come with age are common but are … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

#CannonBookClub September Book Club Announcement

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Our September Book Club will be discussing Banned or Challenged Books on September 16-17, just ahead of Banned Book Week (September 18-24, 2022). Forty years ago, Banned Book Week began as a response to a sudden surge in book challenges in 1982. With the current push to limit access to books … [Read more]

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Feral and Ferocious: Two Plays About Girls

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

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The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe In the not-so-distant past, I performed frequently in small professional theatre productions. I’m a slightly-less-than 5’ tall woman, so I was often cast as teen and early-twenties characters, and I always had an eye out for plays that I could potentially pull … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·


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