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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Without shelter, we stand in daylight.

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

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CBR11 Bingo: Science! I am not a science-y person, but I am a pretty avid gardener. Having spent a lot of time playing in the dirt, coaxing plant life to flourish and googling to find out what bug is terrorizing my plants, I am a sucker for fiction that circles the natural sciences. Barbara Kingsolver is the first author that I encountered that delves in that particular niche. A friend recommended her book “Prodigal Summer” to me several years ago and I was hooked. She […]

But we inherit it.

The Travelers by Regina Porter

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CBR11 BINGO: Listicle (Read it Forward’s Favorite Reads of June 2019) This is a unique and wonderful book that I don’t think anyone could feel ambivalent about. It is definitely a novel that you will either love or hate. The title kept popping up all over the place so when the library had it on display I snatched it up. So glad that I did. “The Travelers” is a sweeping saga following the lives of several different families who are interrelated to one another by blood […]

“…a young plant that has yet to toughen fully.”

The Cactus by Sarah Haywood

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CBR11 BINGO: Summer Read Yep. It’s another of Reese’s Hello Sunshine picks for my book club this month. Again, I hate to admit that she really does make good selections. I’ve read seven of them so far and each of them was pretty darn good. Susan Green is a very regimented, no nonsense woman with an overly organized life to show for it. Even her personal relationships verge on contractual. Her lack of sentimentality places a barrier firmly between her and her co-workers, boyfriends and […]

First we only want to be seen…After that, we want to be remembered.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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CBR11 BINGO: Cannonballer Says Since CBR6, Cannonballers have been (mostly) raving about this book. It was a CBR7 book club selection, faintingviolet read it more than once and the list of Cannonball reviews is over 34 and spanning CBR6 to CBR11. My eyes began to blur while attempting to calculate it. Suffice it to say, it is a looooonnnnngggggg list. Caitlin_D said that she was “late to the party” 3 1/2 years ago when she read and reviewed it. Maybe that makes my review the […]

But no other option was presented to her…

Mother Country by Irina Reyn

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This is a very moody and atmospheric little book about the complexities of female relationships, particularly mothers and daughters. It was displayed at the library (I am easily suggestible) and the author is a writing professor at a local university so I thought I would give it a go. Fearful of the political climate and worried about continuing to afford managing her daughter’s diabetes care, single mother Nadia and her 20 year old daughter, Larissa, plan to emigrate to the United States from the Ukraine. […]

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free.

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

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CBR11 BINGO: Reading the TBR This was a book that I received for CBR 10’s holiday book exchange (thanks again, kfishgirl). I read and reviewed Walls’ “Glass Houses” last year and loved it. I waited a bit to start this one because I am quickly going to run out of Jeannette Walls titles to read and I’m trying to drag it out a little. So, this one has been on my TBR pile since December 2018 and thus fulfills the “Reading the TBR” bingo slot! […]



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