Cannonball Read 13

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search This Site

| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Twitter
  3. Follow us on Instagram
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • About CBR
    • Getting Started
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
  • Our Team
    • Leaderboard
    • The CBR Team
    • Recent Comments
    • CBR Interviews
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • How You Can Donate
    • Book Sale
    • CBR Merchandise
    • Supporters and Friends of CBR
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Follow Us
> FAQ Home
> Tag: CannonBookClub

Not my “best of” but YMMV.

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Memorial by Bryan Washington

December 29, 2020 by scootsa1000 2 Comments

In which it becomes clear to me that a “best of” list means next to nothing. I’m trying (and doubt I will make it) to catch up with my long backlog list from 2020 and to actually reach my goal of 52 reviews. Putting together mini-groups to review together has made this somewhat easier, and yes, I know that some of my groupings are probably random. Here we have two books that I thought were fine. I probably wouldn’t recommend them to friends, but if […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bryan washington, CannonBookClub, cbr12, Emily St. John Mandel, memorial, Scootsa1000, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel

scootsa1000's CBR12 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bryan washington, CannonBookClub, cbr12, Emily St. John Mandel, memorial, Scootsa1000, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel ·
Rating:
· 2 Comments

Book Club Discussion: The Glass Hotel

October 16, 2020 by faintingviolet 16 Comments

Our third and final book club of the year has arrived, and I’m excited to see what everyone has to think about Emily St. John Mandel’s latest The Glass Hotel. For those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome, and you don’t need to be registered* for this year’s Read to speak your mind. For the boilerplate: ground rules remain the same as they always have. The topics are numbered, and we ask […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: book club, Cannon Book Club, CannonBookClub, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

Post by faintingviolet · Genres: Book Club · Tags: book club, Cannon Book Club, CannonBookClub, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel ·
· 16 Comments

“I don’t want you to keep downplaying the hurt you feel like you’re not even human. You keep it up – all these lies to yourself, to other people, and soon you’re not going to know who you are.” (CBR12 Bingo)

I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

July 5, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My Cannonball Bingo tradition is to sit down with the square descriptions and game plan out options for what books to read for each category. I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi could qualify for several squares (this is her debut published October 2019, we read it for CBR Book Club) but I’m using it for UnCannon. The ‘Canon’ is often made up of books written by old, white men and the goal of this square is to read as far from […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: CannonBookClub, cbr12bingo, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, The Future is Queer, UnCannon, we need diverse books

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:34 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: CannonBookClub, cbr12bingo, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, The Future is Queer, UnCannon, we need diverse books ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

cbr12bingo – Shelfie!

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

July 1, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

What a treat, to have had this Wayfairers series at my fingertips (thank you again, CannonBookClub)! Now, what a drag to have to wait another year for another entry! Oh well, that’s what I get for loving things. Once again we’ve been thrown back into the same universe, but with a new (and hinted at) cast of characters: the sister of a main from the first entry, a teen desperate to escape, a person who cares for the dead, an intellectual explorer, a new kid in town, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, CannonBookClub, cbr12bingo, communal living, found family, funerary tradition, human composting, new kid in town, shelfie, space, survival, The Future is Queer

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, CannonBookClub, cbr12bingo, communal living, found family, funerary tradition, human composting, new kid in town, shelfie, space, survival, The Future is Queer ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

TEENS! IN! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

The Disasters by M. K. England

June 20, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Got in juuuuuust under the wire with this one! Another #CannonBookClub pick, another book I probably wouldn’t have picked up without being told to do so! Fortunately, it was fast-paced, warm-hearted, just dangerous enough hold me in suspense, and (last but not least) cute. The basic set up is, well, pretty basic: misfit teens up against their own social structure and a corrupt regulatory force in a race against time to stop the big bad thing from being big and bad. The misfits get into […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: audio book, CannonBookClub, debut author, diverse cast, LGTBQ, M.K. England, representation matters, school drama, space, survival story, The Future is Queer

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:62 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: audio book, CannonBookClub, debut author, diverse cast, LGTBQ, M.K. England, representation matters, school drama, space, survival story, The Future is Queer ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments
Next Page »


Recent Comments

  • Emmalita on Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: dsbs42Loved the perfect amount then. Could maybe use a little more love though.
  • dsbs42 on Reread: Twenty years later I still love this bookI loved this trilogy so much as a kid! My copy is *battered* and I'm a very gentle reader. You've inspired me to add it...
  • dsbs42 on Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: dsbs42It's so good.
  • dsbs42 on Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: dsbs42I think I'm going to do it next year, too. There's something satisfying about watching it shrink, and putting a just-finished book back on the...
  • dsbs42 on Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: dsbs42She is the best. Deserves and gets all the pizza. Per her vet, "This dog is...chronically over-loved."
See More Recent Comments »

Want to Help Out?

CBR has a great crew of volunteers, and we're always looking for more people to help out. If you have a specialty or are willing to learn, drop MsWas a line.

  • How You Can Donate
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo
  3. Google Pay
© 2021 Cannonball Read | Log in