Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have five year old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

Carriejay's Reviews:

It did start to drag on…*

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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Bingo Square: Take the Skies (has dragons and riders) Violet Sorrengail has always known she would not be a dragon rider like her brother and sister before her, she’s far too delicate and would die even attempting to train. She’s going to be a scribe and hang out with books and history, where it’s safe. But then her mother, a general, decrees that Violet will join the cadets after all. And now Violet has to survive various tests – as well as murderous students – […]

Unnecessary back story

Shift by Hugh Howey

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Bingo Square: Politics (senators, congressman, terrible people bringing about the end of the world) In 2049, congressman Donald Keene is recruited by Senator Paul Thurman to help build a containment system for a new nuclear waste facility. Donald has known Thurman for years, dating his daughter Anna in college. She will be on the team too, along with Donald’s friend Mick. The Democratic National Convention takes place at the site, just as nuclear bombs are detonated over the US. Those present file into the silos […]

“Justice may be slow, but she’s also relentless.”

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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Bingo Square: Bodies, Bodies (lots of talk about the female body and menopause, but also dead bodies) Three middle aged women, tired of being ignored and facing hideous sexism, band together to take on a serial killer. Nessa hears the call of dead girls, coming from near the ocean. She was told she had this gift when she was a child, and it would surface when she was much older. Now she can’t rest until she helps these lost souls. Jo’s hot flashes are almost […]

There is Only One Cat

The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail

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Bingo Square: Asia & Oceana The world is ending. In nine months’ time, it will cease to be, and nothing can stop it. 17 year old Aisha is navigating this new reality, while trying to heal from other wounds. Loss of family members, the disappearance of her sister June two years ago. Making the decision to go and find June before the world ends, Aisha and her mother, Aisha’s boyfriend Walter, and Walter’s parents, get in a camper van and set off in search of […]

A Book to Kick Me Out of my Reading Funk

The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

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Bingo Square: North America A group of teens goes on a volunteering trip with their school, only to be the victims of a tragic accident. There are nine survivors, but on the first anniversary of the accident, one of them kills themselves. Reeling from shock, the remaining eight make a pact to be there for each other, and on every subsequent anniversary they meet at a beach house for a week. Checking in, being there, even though, as adults now, they have little to nothing […]

A truly smackable protagonist

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

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Bingo square: Relation’ship’ June Hayward is out celebrating her pseudo-friend’s latest literary success (the Netflix deal!) when the unthinkable happens. Athena Liu, rising star of literature, dies in a freak accident in front of June. And June – jealous of her friend’s success and pitying herself for her own publishing woes – steals Athena’s latest manuscript and passes it off as her own. After a little name change and some racially ambiguous author photos, Juniper Song is born. And becomes the latest sensation. But with […]



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