Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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We agree to disagree (Bingo Blackout!)

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks

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#CBR11 Bingo: Two heads are better than one (would also work for Illustrated or Youths!) For two months of the year, all through high school, Deja and Josiah are best friends, while working at the local Pumpkin Patch extraordinaire. For four years, from the start of September until Halloween, they’ve been dutifully serving customers in the Succotash hut, and sharing pretty much everything with one another for those two months. Once they go back to school, they don’t really interact. This year is different. Deja and […]

A violent, sad, but very satisfying ending (Triple Bingo)

Locke & Key, vol 6: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

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#CBR11 Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (horror) (Would also work for Illustrated) Spoiler warning! This is the sixth and final volume in the Locke and Key series. It is absolutely NOT the place to start. This review will probably contain spoilers both for earlier and this collection, so don’t read it unless you’re completely caught up. The first volume is Welcome to Lovecraft.  In this final volume, the Locke kids have to confront the evil that has been haunting their family for over a generation. If there was any doubt that […]

Waiting for Tom Hanks (a.k.a shut up Annie you don’t deserve a movie star)

Waiting for Tom Hanks (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #1) by Kerry Winfrey

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CBR11 Bingo: Two Heads are Better Than One Caitlin_D: So when I started to read this book I knew immediately that you need to read it too. And then I remembered I needed someone to write a review with me!! Badkittyuno: I love rom-coms. (Caitlin_D: we both do) In fact, one of my favorite things about my fiance is that he is 100% willing to watch silly romantic movies with me. And as a child of the 90s (and a huge Nora Ephron fan), I […]

When my brain is about to melt, I pick up YA

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen McManus

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CBR11Bingo Travel- both books involve moving across the country   **Alex, Approximately This is the first book I’ve read by this author. I see a lot of authors that I follow on Twitter shouting her out, so I thought I would try her new book, The Lady Rogue. No luck- the bookstore was sold out. Instead, I picked up an alternate title and ended up with Alex, Approximately. It is a cute book and had some great aspects, but also some things that I found […]

Returning once more to one of Hercule Poirot’s greatest cases #I Love This

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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Sometimes I feel like my CBR reviews are either fantasy or Agatha Christie. I’ve been a fan of both for years, and I return sometimes to Christie when I need a quick read. This time, it was actually because I found that my library has the audiobook version of Death on the Nile–read by DAVID SUCHET. Who uses his Poirot voice when appropriate. Needless to say, I LOVED this version of something I’ve already loved for ages. Death on the Nile is one of Christie’s […]

Not something I might have chosen myself, but really enjoyed! #FarAndAway

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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I picked this one up for a book club a few months ago. I really do not often read literary fiction, but I wanted to give this one a try. And lo and behold–I loved it! I ended up only finishing half before the book club meeting and got all sorts of spoilers, but to be honest, this book isn’t read for the plot. Knowing what’s going to happen does not ruin it at all (and I usually hate spoilers). This is a book that […]



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