Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Oops, it’s been a hot minute since I wrote a review. I have been reading, but I also spent four months trying to do my job and also angst about whether I would still have that job in the fall, which ate up a lot of my focus. (I do! I got tenure!) Then I went traveling and continued not writing reviews, though also still reading quite a bit. But CBR Bingo is a nice little prod to get back to it, in the back half of […]

CBR15 Book Bingo Reading Challenge Begins

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As with last year, you interpret the categories. How easy or challenging you make your reading is up to you. Below are suggested interpretations and some suggestions are stronger than others. But it’s your time so pick books that appeal to you. Our theme this year has been travel your bookshelf. Like traveling, reading can expand our world. While a bad vacation may be a lifetime of stories, a bad book is just miserable. You don’t have to finish a book to review it. There […]

Beauty and the Beast, Shackled

Marvelous by Molly Greeley

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CBR 15 Bingo: Bodies, Bodies – Most everyone in this book is concerned with Petrus’s body – specifically the coat of hair that covers all of it. Pedro, a young boy with the rare condition that caused him to be covered with hair from head to foot, is bought as a gift for the French king, and eventually is married to Catherine, the beautiful daughter of a penniless merchant. I have heard of the story of Petrus Gonsalvus, but only in passing, merely the fact […]



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