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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…when you open your heart to rewilding a landscape…you’re opening your heart to rewilding yourself.

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

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CBR BINGO: Landscape Years ago a friend recommended I read Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, Prodigal Summer, about a wildlife biologist studying coyotes. It wasn’t something I thought would be in my wheelhouse, but I loved it and have been on the lookout for books of the the same ilk ever since. Give me books about folks obsessed with nature and wildlife written with obvious respect and awe. Paint those landscapes with words and give voice to the wild. I struggle with finding a name for this genre. The […]

Perhaps all humans are lonely. At least potentially.

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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CBR13 BINGO: Book Club (Obama’s Summer Reading List 2021 & Good Morning America’s Book Club) Ishiguro writes the kind of books that you can’t discuss too much without giving away the plot. In the most simple synopsis: Klara is an artificially intelligent robot that can be purchased to be a child’s bff. Initially showcased in a storefront window, she is soon supplanted by newer models and relegated to lesser and lesser positions in the store. While languishing in a shady corner in the back of […]

Is this what people do?

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR13 BINGO: Rec’d square (Cannonball Read has been my go-to when looking for something to read for as long as it has been around. That’s over a decade of recommendations, folks. One of the greatest loves of my reading life is Rainbow Rowell and I have to thank many, many great Cannonballers for that. So, I’m stretching the Rec’d Square here a bit because it wasn’t one specific Cannonballer who recommended this book in particular. It was a group effort recommending the author in general. While I may have come […]

Why does God let His children suffer?

Revival Season by Monica West

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CBR 13 BINGO: Rep (explanation in review) This book came to me because author Ann Patchett recommended it on Goodreads. Not sure that it was something that I would have picked up otherwise based on the title, cover and subject matter, but I’m glad I did. The Horton family’s entire life is subsumed by the father’s ministry and thriving congregation in Texas. Known for his power to heal, Reverend Horton leaves his church and takes his family on the road every summer for revival season. […]

There are different kinds of darkness.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR BINGO: Cityscape square (bottom left corner) Slammed it shut and immediately requested the third book in this series from the library. May have murmured “so, so, good” under my breath first. I’d really just like to leave it there, but we have that pesky 250 word obligation so, here goes. This is the second book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, so if you haven’t read that yet, by all means DO. This will get a smidge spoiler-y from this point on. In order to break a […]

Your senses are your greatest enemies; they will be waiting to betray you.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR 13 BINGO: Flora square (along top and right edge of cover) Somehow I missed this one when it was favorably (and unfavorably) reviewed a while back, but I follow some Instagram accounts that were raving about this series so I got curious. After a war between human mortals and faeries, the world is split. A wall is erected and humans are pushed behind it into the southlands. Generations of stories about powerful fae creatures that enslave, murder, and eat humans are handed down. Occasionally even stories […]



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