Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Gossip, Judgement and Destruction – Read this Book

Good People by Patmeena Sarit

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Are we not all outsiders to another person's life?   Mesmerizing Debut Novel  The novel's unique structure lacks traditional chapters, paragraphs or narrator. Instead there are 1-2 page personal accounts, giving a 360 degree view of the leadup and the aftermath of one family's tragedy. I … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Mid-April Review roundup

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

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It's time for another mega-post reviewing a bunch of books that have nothing in common with each other! Lousie Erdrich's The Mighty Red was so achingly beautiful that when I finished it, I got genuinely worried that I would never find a book this good again. Set in the Red River Valley of … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

Japanese Gothic

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

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Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker was perfectly fine. I'd even be comfortable saying it was good. In 2026 Lee Turner takes a lot of drugs to treat insomnia, and probably other things that were never named. He unnerves his father, but gets along with his father's Japanese girlfriend. After Lee … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: ·

Quiet your tongue, and listen with your heart.

Struck Speechless by Tati Richardson

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I read Tati Richardson’s Losing Sight last month in preparation for reading the arc for Struck Speechless. I loved Tamika and her friend group. I really enjoyed Richardson’s writing. I did not like Tamika’s love interest, Gideon in the last third of the book. He acknowledged that the many women … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:27 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·

Not the review I was expecting to write

Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt

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I was really expecting this to be a strong 4 star read, instead I’m rounding up to 3 stars. The things I didn’t like, someone else will love, I’m sure. But the last 20-25 % of the book took me from “this book is imperfect but I’m enjoying it” to “oh no, I don’t like this.” I’ve read a lot of romance … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , ·

The Sorry State of the Modern Malaise Novel

A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee

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The more I read of a particular genre of modern literature, the more it feels the same. The genre is a relative recent one, looking at well-off white people experiencing a midlife change, usually precipitated by crisis. There's a familiar pattern to the plots which goes beyond typical story beats … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , ·


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