Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Beautiful Platters & Delicious Boards by Cedar Mill Press

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Beautiful Platters & Delicious Boards looks really pretty, as in it has many attractive and colorful picture. I had a good time with my New Year’s experiment with this trend (using a different cookbook), and I was hoping for some more ideas as March is not just birthday month, but also this … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Sorrowland-Did Not Finish at 20 percent

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

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I ended up DNFing this book at 20 percent. I am sorry, but this is dragging. It doesn't help that the book keeps jumping back and forth and I really don't understand the cult that the main character, Vern was involved with. And I assume this is in a different time and place than our Earth? Once … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:61 · Genres: Horror · Tags: ·

Have you heard of Pervitin?

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

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One of the weirdest things that's happened to me as an adult is that I've learned how fluid "history" can be. Growing up, my understanding of the concept of history was that smart people figured out what happened, and they told us, and that was it. In college books like Lies My Teacher Told Me and A … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , ·

Last Evenings on Earth

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

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"We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain." Last Evenings on Earth is a dreamlike collection of 14 short stories by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. I write "middling" with affection; many of the stories in this … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: ·

“Stranger things have happened,” I say. “Most of them in the last month.”

The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa

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I really enjoyed this contemporary fake dating romance set in and around Washington DC. The Wedding Crasher is Mia Sosa's follow up to The Worst Best Man. Solange Pereira agrees to help her cousin at a wedding and inadvertently becomes the main attraction when she overhears the bride profess her … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Son of the Morning Star by Evan S Connell

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Evan Connell is primarily known as a novelist -- Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge, et al -- but he's kind of a journeyman American letters guy who was interesting in a lot of different stories, ideas, histories, and places. This popular history of George Custer fits right along those. Custer occupies a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:97 · Genres: History · Tags: ·


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