Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

New Love and a Complete Bingo Board!

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

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CBR Bingo – Cozy, like two lovers finding each other in old age – and a COMPLETE BINGO CARD! A widow walks into the home of a neighbor (also a widower), and proposes they sleep together. Addie Moore isn’t looking for sex, necessarily – she just feels lonely at night, and she knows that Louis Waters lost his wife some time ago and he might also feel lonely. And he does – he misses having someone to talk to, someone to look forward to seeing. […]

Excellent Book Club Fodder

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

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CBR 14 Bingo – Font (for the font of knowledge you’d get from this amazing school for mothers! jk) This novel would be well suited for a book club – it’s accessible and easy to read, while also brimming with topics that groups (largely of women, often of mothers) enjoy debating. The book has a point of view, but it also leaves a lot of room for the reader to consider and interpret. The title begs the question – what is a “good” mother?  Is […]

” … we ourselves are inseparable from nature.”

Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

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CBR book bingo – Holiday (and another Bingo!) – this book takes place in an airport, as two men talk as they await a delayed flight Two men who more or less knew each other in college meet in an airport. Their flight is delayed, and one has access to a first class lounge, so they sit together. Our unnamed narrator (a writer) listens to his former acquaintance, Jeff Cook, tell a tale about his life post college. Jeff’s story begins with saving the life […]



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