Cannonballers, I’m finally passing the hat around these parts, and I’m asking you to kick in a few dollars to help with the costs of running the group blog. As you know, we moved to our own website address for this year, so that means we had to purchase the domain name and hosting for the site. And there were costs involved with switching to the new host back in March. So far I’m out of pocket just over $200. Some of those dollars go […]
December Donation to the American Cancer Society
Cannonball Read just made a $130 donation in AlabamaPink’s name to the American Cancer Society. Thanks to all of you for visiting our ad partners, and thank you for hitting the Cannonball Read Buy Hole. Keep it up!!
Let’s Have a Book Exchange!
It’s that time of year again – holiday shopping! Last year Jen K suggested and organized a Cannonball Read Book Exchange. To keep this new tradition going, Katie (faintingviolet) has offered to handle the arrangement of the exchange for 2014. You can email her directly with any questions and to sign up (see the directions below). The CBR Book Exchange is completely voluntary, but it’s a nice way to add another layer to our sense of community here at CBR and a lovely excuse to […]
October Donation in AlabamaPink’s Name
We just donated $120 to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink’s name! Hit up the Cannonball Read Buy-Hole and your purchases on Amazon can fight cancer too!
Happy Birthday Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser
Many of the participants in the sixth Cannonball Read are big fans of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. To celebrate the 96th birthday of its heroine, Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser, we’ve gathered this year’s reviews of Gabaldon works. Be forewarned that spoilers may abound, so curl up in your shift to get our participants’ views on what Salon magazine calls: “..the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting “Scrooge McDuck” comics.” Outlander omg omg omg: alwaysanswerb […]
April Donation to the American Cancer Society
We’ve just made a donation in the amount of $183.10 to the American Cancer Society. You made this possible. Find out how else you can fight cancer! Thanks so much everyone!