Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Future I Can Believe In

The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

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I seem to be having a bit of a #scifisummer and it has been so fun and refreshing, even when it’s tense and complicated. Sometimes the chaos goblin who runs my brain at the library is on the right track, and I’ve had some excellent grabs recently. Rocketing straight to the top of the list (get it? rockets?? science fiction???? you’re welcome), is this bonkers beauty that I finished this morning and cannot stop thinking about. In short, we’re about 50,000 years in the future, […]

There is the crime and there is the silence.

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake

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CBR15 BINGO (You Are Here square: Parts of the book take place in coastal Maine and I read the book while I was visiting the area.) I can fall into a good story fairly easily, but there is something to be said about reading a book in its actual setting. A little sea air and waves crashing against rocky cliffs? Summer reading heaven. This novel spans three generations of the Miltons, an “old money” family in New York who went on to build an empire […]

…he wonders, nearly seriously, if he should steal the marlin.

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

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CBR15 BINGO (Edibles square: If you consider Red Lobster edible, I guess? Set in a restaurant.) Manny is the manager of a Red Lobster that’s being downsized. At the last lunch and dinner service, he’s convinced a few of his staff members to come in and work even though an impending snowstorm will most likely scare customers away. Whether begrudgingly, out of loyalty, or needing that last paycheck, the employees trickle in, including a few whom Manny was not able to secure jobs for at […]

…the generation that was born with planes, with the flights full of bags..

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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CBR15 PASSPORT COMPLETED! (Stamp #15: Books from other countries) CBR15 BINGO (South America square: Colombian author, set in Colombia, Translated from Spanish) I was very excited to pick up this book when looking for a contender for the South American bingo square. My husband and I have fallen down the Narcos rabbit hole on Netflix. So, a novel about Bogatá? Mentions Escobar’s hippos? Yes, please and thank you. Antonio is a law professor living in the city he was born and raised in: Bogotá. After […]

‘No airport was an island either.’

Airport by Arthur Hailey

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CBR 15 Bingo – Nostalgia: This book is set in the glamorous heyday of air travel (and as I am currently in hour three of a ten hour layover in Munich, I can assure you I am feeling very nostalgic.) Over the course of seven hours, Lincoln Airport must go through a snowstorm, a protest, and the return of an airplane that’s had a hole blasted in its side. I love stories about airports and airplanes. They’re exciting to me because they are emblematic of adventure – […]

Heartbreakers

Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

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But Sigourney Weaver is a murderous narcissist and Jennifer Love Hewitt loves her, hates her, and is terrified by her. Just like the classic 2001 film! Beautiful, accomplished Bea is about to marry the extremely rich man of her dreams and disappear into a life of peaceful domesticity. Her only problem is winning over his protective family who think she’s a gold digger along with everyone else in his upper class social circle who are determined to keep her out. And then there’s the best […]



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