Each year Cannonball Read holds a (completely voluntary) Holiday Book Exchange, and we’re happy to continue the tradition this year. It’s a lovely part of our community here at CBR and a great way to get to know a fellow Cannonballer a little bit better. If you are able to join us in the fun of … [Read more]
It's time to submit the three best and one worst books you read during 2025. If you have reviewed them, please include links to your posts so people can read your reviews. The books may have any publication date, you just need to have read them this year. If you have something you must tell the … [Read more]
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
I've found a number of interesting books when I need a new audio book by just seeing what is "available now" at my library, sorted by popularity. Is that how I found A Marriage at Sea (2025) by Sophie Elmhirst? Honestly, now I can't remember. I may have seen it on a list somewhere. Also, now that … [Read more]
Not Quite A Ghost by Anne Ursu
The genome has been mapped. The systems studied. Everything is known. Just like theworld, they tell themselves. The mysteries have all been solved. There is nothing that could possibly lurk beyond what humans can apprehend. They are wrong. When a virus slips its way into a body, sometimes that body … [Read more]
All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
I am ever so pleased with my first Aardvark book! Only my third 5-star rating of the year (although a couple have been close). I chose this one on vibes – I was partway through Band Sinister and enjoying myself, loved the cover, and was in the mood to say yes to some gothic mystery goodness. All … [Read more]
All Superheroes Need Photo Ops by Elizabeth Stephens
When I reviewed Elizabeth Stephens’s first book in the Supers in the City series, All Superheroes Need PR, I started off "Hinges? I don’t know her” – Elizabeth Stephens, probably. Well, in All Superheroes Need Photo Ops, Stephens proves that she knows exactly what a hinge is and she enjoys listening … [Read more]
Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Bradlee
Fern, the profaneity-heavy Rattikin and bookseller first appearing in Bookshops and Bonedust, has run her quiet little shop in her quiet seaside village for years. Now, offered a change of scenery and a potential end to the ennui she's fallen into in recent years, she transplants herself to the city … [Read more]
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands: Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series: A Novel by Heather Fawcett
To be honest, it took me three weeks to get through this book. Not that it was overly long (at 341 pages, I don't consider it a long book), and not that I hated it (though to be honest, I would probably have to work up an emotion to it past "meh" to get towards something like hate), but because my … [Read more]
