Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Whodunnit? Whodonut!

City of Lies by Alafair Burke

by Leave a Comment

New York, 2010-ish. A woman runs down the street in the pouring rain and stops at a payphone to make a 911 call. She tells them a murder has been committed. A man has been shot in the luxury penthouse that belongs to a wealthy investor. The police try to trace the call but the woman is long gone by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , ·

“Telling her best friends about accidentally summoning a goddess, being named her priestess, and being blessed with the ability to breathe fire wasn’t something that Kenna would like to repeat”

Forged in Flames by Ali Williams

by Leave a Comment

I’d read some of the author’s contemporary romances before so when I found out she had a shifter romance coming out? Heck yes! And it’s absolutely delightful, with a strong heroine and the exact opposite of an alphahole hero. It’s no exaggeration to say that Kenna is very surprised when the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

The Schoolhouse Blizzard

Maddy and the Monstrous Storm by Julie Gilbert

by Leave a Comment

Maddy  is new to the prairie, but when she and her classmates are trapped in their schoolhouse by a ferocious blizzard, she must lead them all to safety. I'd first heard of the Schoolhouse Blizzard a year or two ago, when I read Melanie Benjamin's The Children's Blizzard, which similarly followed … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:67 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Beats a very low bar – barely

Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford Simak

by 2 Comments

When I was complaining about old-school sci-fi written by old white men (darn you, library sci-fi book club!) a couple commenters suggested I try Clifford Simak. My mom had also recently suggested him, so when I found Enchanted Pilgrimage at a used bookstore, I figured it was a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·

“Words are our tools of resurrection.”

The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel by Pip Williams

by Leave a Comment

I would not have expected the story of the creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary to be a gripping topic for a novel, but I stand corrected. Pip Williams’ historical fiction encompasses not only the work of compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary but also events of historic importance … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

A Book on Video Games with Some Design Flaws

Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More by Dustin Hansen

by Leave a Comment

If I have one complaint about Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and More, it’s to do with the page and section design, not the content. As the title suggests this book is a history of video games and game systems beginning with the arcade type things like Pong … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·


Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo