For International Women’s Day, we are celebrating our favorite “difficult” women in books. I love reading about women who live their lives the way they want to live them, whether we call them strong, difficult, or even unlikable. It’s one of the reasons I read so much romance, it’s a genre where difficult women are rewarded with love and success. I asked four Cannonballers to share some of their favorite difficult women, fictional and real, from books. Teresalectro sings the praises of Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan: […]
CBR Diversions – It’s Never too Late to Have a Happy Childhood
In May, the CannonBookClub will discuss books that take us back to childhood. That might mean a favorite book from your childhood, or a more recent book that you wish you had read as a child. As a child and early teen, I loved books where virtuous people suffered virtuously until they were rewarded at the end. How very Victorian! Fortunately, I’ve grown past that and I’m not terribly interested in revisiting the books of my childhood. I am, however, delighted and slightly jealous of […]
CBR Diversions – Literary Couples That Make You Swoon
With Valentine’s Day swiftly approaching, romance is in the air. To complement our featured romance book reviews, this week’s CBR Diversion celebrates our favorite literary couples. Who makes you swoon? I know many of you are historical romance fans who love a reformed rake who meets his match. Daphne and Simon have become quite popular in the zeitgeist after the Netflix adaption of Julia Quinn’s The Duke and I premiered. Personally, I’m a sucker for the slow burn courtship in urban fantasy series. In the […]
CBR Diversions – Whale Hello There!
Welcome to January 2021! What a year the last two weeks have been. Four years ago I wrote a post in which seasoned Cannonballers gave advice to new Cannonballers. I hope it helped a few people, and it’s all still good stuff. This year we thought we would start off with a chance for new folks and veterans to introduce yourselves, tell us what you are looking forward to reading, and ask any questions about Cannonball Read that come to mind. In that vein, there […]
CBR Diversions – Your Personal 2020 Round Up
I’m giving Jake credit for this diversion. His Best of…post is something we should all feel welcome to do. The very fact that we made through 2020 deserves a celebration. Would you like to celebrate by creating your own Best of 2020 Books post? Great! We have some suggestions that will make your post easier on the reader’s eye. First, book titles should be italicized. The most viewed review post of 2020 was Sophia’s review of The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. Second, lists […]