You’ve joined (or rejoined) Cannonball Read this year and are all set to write a review. But wait, what are the rules, where do I start? This diversion helps answer your review writing questions. First, the two most important rules: Book reviews should be a minimum of 250 words. You do not have to review everything you read. (View the complete rules.) My personal tip is to pick and choose which books you write reviews for. I read 100 books a year. When I joined […]

Welcome to Cannonball 17. A new year and a new Cannonball bring new opportunities. A chance to read lots of books, review lots of books, and connect with other Cannonballers. I hope to read 100 books in 2025. I am looking forward to new titles from some of my favorite authors:  Fredrik Backman, Fiona Davis, and  V. E. Schwab. And of course, connecting with other Cannonballers (because you guys have the best book recs!) Want to meet fellow Cannonballers and talk books, then join us […]

November is a time for harvest, gratitude, and let’s be honest, eating. What happens when I combine two of my favorite hobbies: eating and reading? I change book titles into edible book titles. You guys had so much fun creating beach reads, so this month you have a chance to make edible books.  Change one word in a book title to a food to make the book title edible. Here are mine: A Separate Peach (Peace) The Music of Beets (Bees) French Bread (Braid) All […]

How has your summer been so far? I don’t care about places you’ve been, people you’ve seen, or stuff you have done, I want to know what have you read! I have been having a good summer reading wise. I am once again participating in my local library’s summer reading program. For which I got to write my annual summer reading poem: There once was a reader from Mass, Summer reading she wanted to pass, A limerick she penned, And so to that end, More […]

I heard the phrase “Private Eye July” and thought, there is a diversion in this. So this month, let’s discuss fictional detectives. A well-written mystery often features a memorable detective. You root for them to solve the mystery as you attempt to figure it out before they do. So many of these detectives are eccentric and bigger than life. Let’s for a moment imagine some of our favorite literary detectives in real life and fit them into our lives. I would like it if Flavia […]

As summer approaches, people start to think about beach reads. What exactly is a beach read? Does it have to be set in a beach community? Should it have sand on the cover? Does it have to be a light read? Must it be a romance? Does it have to be written by Elin Hilderbrand? Well, I am proposing that we completely rethink beach reads. Read anything you want in the summer. Make anything into a beach read. Now there’s an idea. Let’s create beach […]