Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The perfect emotional gut-punch for the time (my June #CannonBookClub pick)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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In contrast to my last book review, where I thought reading about a plague probably wasn’t the best read for the current time, An Unkindness of Ghosts is the perfect book to read during this week especially. More than that, it is an important book to read during this week. And I am completely, utterly, devastatingly unqualified to review it. An Unkindness of Ghosts is an emotional gut-punch throughout. The premise alone is brilliant: a spaceship, the Matilda, is taking the remnants of humanity to an unknown destination, a […]

Being a teenager is hard enough without the threat of total annihilation looming on the horizon.

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

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Jesse, Cate, and Adeem are all just trying to survive- even before they catch wind of an alien planet’s message to earth: you will all be destroyed in seven days. Our main trio holds a treasure trove of teen torments between them: absent parents, the desire to be loved, the inability to accept care, the need to be anywhere other than where they are. Everyone is attempting to find someone who does not necessarily want to be found, and I was worried that we’d being […]

Announcing 2020 #CannonBookClub Topics and Dates!

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For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]

Better late than never for CBR? (Bingo Square: Classics)

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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I read A Study in Scarlet a few weeks ago to prepare for Cannonball Read and… forgot to review. So here’s my quick review before I dive into the discussion posts because I don’t want to be influenced. I’d read this before as a kid, when I went through a big Sherlock Holmes binge and read as many of the stories as I could get my hands on before I eventually got rather bored. Reading this now as an adult, I remember why I got bored–this one […]

Humanizing Holmes

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Bingo 9 (Classics), and also in preparation for book club. I honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever actually read a Sherlock Holmes story exactly as it was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I remember reading some Holmes mysteries when I was younger, but the more I think about it, I’m wondering if they weren’t abbreviated version, something like Great Illustrated Classics. I’ve certainly read variations of several sorts, as well as followed Sherlock, and seen a few of the movie versions. Hound of the […]

A silly tale of the end times

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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Good Omens, The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch was my first foray into the mind of Terry Pratchett. It was my fourth read from Neil Gaiman. I know, I know, I need to read more Pratchett. Since I enjoyed this collaboration, I definitely will soon. The book follows two unlikely friends Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, who must stop the end of the world. They’ve known each other since the Garden of Eden. They kept in touch despite working for […]



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