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Did not expect to love a book about economics and baseball but here we are

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

October 31, 2021 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

I know far more about baseball than someone with my level of interest (mild) should. I have favourite players (Mookie Betts and Corey Seager), a lot of thoughts on player hair and facial hair (Cody Bellinger’s haircut, Seager’s unfortunate ‘goatee’) and I even know the team’s GM (Dave Roberts). In short: I live with a baseball fanatic (Dodgers fan, obviously) and have essentially absorbed these things, osmosis style from the many, many games that play in the background to my daily life during baseball season […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Michael Lewis, moneyball, sportsball

Wanderlustful's CBR13 Review No:39 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Michael Lewis, moneyball, sportsball ·
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So, Do You Like Knives?

The Martial Arts of Indonesia: A Guide to Pencak Silat, Kuntao and Traditional Weapons by Donn F. Draeger

October 25, 2021 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

  Yes, I am really amusing myself here for picking a ‘sportsball’ book where balls don’t really feature in the sports of focus. To make up for that though—as I discovered—nearly everything else that you could think of has been used as a weapon in an Indonesian martial art at some point. This includes knives, more knives, swords, shields, sticks, more knives, whips, chains, and teeth. And the knives? More knives than spam in Monty Python. Some of these people folks really love their knives. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Donn F. Draeger, Indonesia, martial arts, pencak silat, sports, sportsball

LittlePlat's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: cbr13bingo, Donn F. Draeger, Indonesia, martial arts, pencak silat, sports, sportsball ·
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“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small.”

Björnstad (Beartown) by Fredrick Backman

October 24, 2021 by Malin 3 Comments

CBR13 Bingo: Sports Ball (could easily also be used as Rec’d, since a lot of Cannonballers have read and reviewed it favourably) Official book description: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Sports Tagged With: adapted into TV, Björnstad, CBR13, cbr13bingo, contemporary fiction, Fredrick Backman, ice hockey, LGBTQIA, Malin, small town life, sports, sportsball, Swedish

Malin's CBR13 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction, Sports · Tags: adapted into TV, Björnstad, CBR13, cbr13bingo, contemporary fiction, Fredrick Backman, ice hockey, LGBTQIA, Malin, small town life, sports, sportsball, Swedish ·
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“Love couldn’t solve everything, but without love, there was nothing to solve.” (Bingo #3!)

40-Love by Olivia Dade

October 19, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I think I laugh the most whenever I read an Olivia Dade romance, her humor hits all the right notes for me. Even when I’m not expecting a laugh, Dade delivers them through her characters who are achingly self-aware, or sometimes not. Following a meet-cute involving a runaway bikini top and the need to keep from flashing nearby children, we get the story of Tess and Lucas. Lucas, 26, a former top-level tennis pro now giving lessons at a Florida resort, fled there after the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: 40-Love, a little romance, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, Olivia Dade, read harder, read women, representation matters, sportsball, there's something about marysburg

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:47 · Genres: Romance · Tags: 40-Love, a little romance, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, Olivia Dade, read harder, read women, representation matters, sportsball, there's something about marysburg ·
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Part Fantasy, Part Messianic Fever Dream

Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

September 10, 2021 by ElCicco 4 Comments

Cbr13bingo Sportsball Here’s one of those rare (for me) cases of the movie being better than the book. Shoeless Joe, the basis for the 1989 Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams, is a decent-ish fantasy swathed in backward looking heteronormative tropes where a beleaguered white messiah-figure brings redemption to all around him. The parts of the story that interested me involved the baseball field and the players from the past who were resurrected when main character Ray Kinsella built it in his cornfield. Unfortunately, those […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Shoeless Joe, sportsball, W.P. Kinsella

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, CBR13, cbr13bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Shoeless Joe, sportsball, W.P. Kinsella ·
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Minor minor league hockey romance. #CBRBINGO – Sportsball

Breakaway (Scoring Chances, #1) by Avon Gale

July 6, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 3/30 This was a good time. I was really into it at the beginning, but then the tension sort of fizzled out near the middle. It had a pretty strong ending, though. I’m definitely going to check out later books in the series, because some of the summaries seem like they will be a little more angsty. This was mostly just bantery and fluffy and full of hockey stuff. I almost bumped it up to four stars, but that […]

Filed Under: Romance, Sports Tagged With: Avon Gale, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, hockey, hockey romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, Romance, sports romance, sportsball

narfna's CBR13 Review No:83 · Genres: Romance, Sports · Tags: Avon Gale, cbr13bingo, Contemporary Romance, hockey, hockey romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, Romance, sports romance, sportsball ·
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