Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Disney World lover. Chewbacca hugger. Reader of books. Writer of words. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Leedock's Quick Questions interview.)

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…a great experience in a park typically doesn’t happen in a few minutes.

Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share

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CBR15 BINGO (Guide square: all about the NPS and the jags that give them bad reviews on Yelp.) BINGO! Hold Steady to Nostalgia BINGO! In the Wild to Edibles I think I first found @subparparks on Instagram during the pandemic. I can’t remember the first post that I saw, but I laughed out loud at the ridiculousness of some people. Amber Share’s account blends her love of lettering and illustration with her love of the national parks in the U.S. After reading a one-star Yelp […]

Your body is not your own.

Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

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CBR15 BINGO (Sex square: Sexy times, sexual politics, sexuality ) BINGO! South America to Sex BINGO! Sex to Europe BINGO! Sex to History BLACKOUT! *First, a big thank you to everyone involved in the annual CBR Bingo setup, monitoring, artistry, and square-developing shenanigans. It is one of my favorite times of the year. Hats off to you all. * I enjoyed all but one of the Bridgerton books and loved the first and third seasons of the Netflix series. I appreciate that the series uses the books as a blueprint but isn’t afraid to expand the story […]

Flight is but momentary escape from the eternal custody of earth.

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

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CBR15 BINGO (Take to the Skies square: memoir written by the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to North America) BINGO! (Take to the Skies to Adulthood) For last year’s CBR Bingo, I read Circling the Sun by Paula McClain and loved it. I fell hard for the problematic but endlessly fascinating shenanigans of mostly swanky Europeans living, farming and cocktailing their way across East Africa. McClain’s novel centered on Beryl Markham who was the most interesting of the bunch. Raised on her father’s farm, she grew up with […]

That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in…

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

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CBR15 BINGO ( In the Wild Square: Set in an unknown apocalyptic (?) wilderness. Scientists sent to explore.) For some as yet unexplained reason, a portion of the world called Area X has been blocked off from civilization. After several decades, a new ecosystem has taken over full of marshes and wildlife. To study the phenomenon, multiple expeditions of scientists have crossed over the border to map the area and take samples. Most of the scientists never returned and those few who did were husks of […]

…a voice on the radio offering a loom on which to spin his dreams.

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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CBR15 BINGO (On the Air square: Lots about radios and radio communication) BINGO! Dwelling to On The Air This is going to be a terrible review. I liked this book too much and generally, when that happens I freeze when trying to review it. Doerr’s book won the Pulitzer nearly a decade ago. I’ve had this book recommended to me countless times and, as is often the case with books everyone raves about, I put it on my virtual TBR pile and forget about it. Why do I […]

Hi, Goldbug…wherever you are.

Cars and Trucks and Things That Go by Richard Scarry

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CBR15 BINGO (Nostalgia square: Read this to my kid a billion times.) Okay. This is going to be more about me than the book, but that’s nostalgia for you. We moved my son to college a few weeks ago. He’s our only kiddo. I’m an official empty nester now so I’m nostalgia-ing all over the place. He loved a lot of the Scarry books but this was his favorite. A superfan of all things vehicle-related, there was never a construction site or road re-surfacing that he […]



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