Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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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: , , , , , , , ·

Killing time between planes

Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Bingo Square: Or (this collection explores alternate planes of existence and inter-dimensional travel) Quotes: “Although his campaign had become increasingly outspoken against “godless” and “foreign” elements of Obtrian society, many Astasa voted for him. They wanted a strong leader, they … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Voted “The Most Beautiful Baby in Hong Kong” in 1947 – and He Was!

Vagabond: A Memoir by Tim Curry

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cbr18bingo Card - Clown (Because, c'mon, Pennywise!) There are two Muppet movies that will always make me squee, because of their human costars.  The first is Christmas Carol with Michael Caine, and the second is Treasure Island with Tim Curry.  (An astute critic remarked that the first one … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:22 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ·


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