Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random hobbies!

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“I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.”

Just Kids by Patti Smith

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CBR Bingo: Music (and my second Bingo!) Just Kids (2010) by Patti Smith is another book I found and decided to read because of Cannonball Bingo. I’m sure I could have found a number of books that worked for the Music square, but I wanted to read something that made it worth it. I saw that Just Kids had won the National Book Award and I was intrigued. I don’t think I’m the target reader for this book. My knowledge of musicians and artists is limited at best, […]

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

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Cannonball Bingo: Money! (And my first bingo!) I’ve had a fun time figuring out what books fit for what squares in Cannonball Bingo, but I didn’t know what to read for “Money!” Although I’m a fan of having money, and I’d definitely like enough that I don’t have to work and can travel all over the world, the topic doesn’t hold my interest. So, I went on a Google search to find a good book on a topic that I often find tedious. And I […]

The mafia and romance?

Violet by Sophie Lark

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I found Violet (2019) by Sophie Lark with a little Google and Amazon searching. I was specifically looking for a book that filled the “Violet” square for Cannonball Bingo, and I figured there had to be a romance novel with ‘violet’ in the title. When I found Violet and saw that I could get it through Kindle Unlimited, I was sold. Violet is the third book in a series (about different mafia romances?), but the description said it was a stand-alone novel, which was perfect for me. Spoilers. Violet is a […]

The tree of our family was parted – branches here, roots there – parted for their lumber.

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I first found Ta-Nehisi Coates when my friend recommended The Beautiful Struggle to me. I found it very moving and have since read every book Coates has written. I’m also using The Water Dancer for Cannonball Bingo. It is filling the “Repeat” square. I am repeating “Uncannon” since Ta-Nehisi Coates is not an old, white man. In a story about slavery, Coates uses the words “Tasked” and “Quality” instead of slave and master. Hiram Walker is one of the Tasked. His life is relatively comfortable compared to some of […]

Good and fun historical romance

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

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Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore was a historical romance novel that I first saw on NPR’s Best Books of 2019. I’ve found some fun and different romance novels on this list, and I was happy to try another. And I liked this book. This was one of my favorite romance novels in awhile. It definitely fulfilled all historical romance expectations, but the female characters felt a little more realistic for their time. They weren’t simply women transplanted from the 21st century back in […]

It’s the nuances of desire that hold the truth of who we are at our rawest moments.

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

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CBR12 Bingo: No Money! I discovered Three Women by Lisa Taddeo like many of my books–on NPR’s Best Books of 2019. I decided to use it to fill my No Money! bingo square. This was by far the easiest square for me to get. I get almost all of the books I read from the library, so most of the books I’ve read this year would work. Three Women is an apt description for this non-fiction account of the sex lives of three women. Their stories vary dramatically, but […]



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