Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

OMG I love these old crime fighters

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

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So, this is another Audible book that my sister bought that I get to enjoy. Thankfully she bought all three, so I get to listen to them all! This is book one. The premise of this this book was totally new and refreshing to me. The closest parallel I can make is to the Netflix show “Only Murders in the Building.” It’s kind of a loose parallel though. Anyway, we get pulled in immediately as Elizabeth, an octogenarian asks her friend Joyce, a former nurse […]

such a delightfully odd book, definitely on my list of books to recommend in turn

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

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Cannonball Passport: a recommendation from Chris, spasibo How to explain this book, which was exactly what was promised on the back cover and yet hard to fully explain? It is historical fiction, with some characters plucked from the annals of the USSR and others constructed—not from whole cloth, but from several scraps who did exist (or who probably did). It’s a different take on the Soviet Union, painted not with satire but not with nostalgia/wistfulness either? I wonder how much would resonate with someone from […]

“Sometimes I think,” she said slowly, “that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn’t make it past noon.”

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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CBR Bingo – On the Air This book came highly recommended by a few people who have similar reading sensibilities as me, so I went into it presuming I would like it, and I was not wrong. However, bit of a quick disclaimer: I was shaken up at the start of the book because in this instance, judging the book by its cover will leave you on uneven footing as you get your book legs (I’m workshopping it a la “sea legs.” You heard it […]

Real Fictional Comic about a Comic Artist (in middle school)

New Kid by Jerry Craft

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Bingo 8: Picture This Since the book club book I’m thinking I want to start with is part 2 of a series, I figured I’d get a hold of book one first. Somehow, I’d forgotten that New Kid was a graphic novel, so it fits in just fine for Bingo. Turns out the main character want to be a drawer of pictures, so it double works. I was a little unsure about this one before starting it because it was more of a middle grade […]

Yes, THAT Vampire Series

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

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It’s okay to admit it – you have an opinion about the Twilight series, just like everyone else on Earth. Whether you love it or hate it, you’ve probably spent longer than you’d like to thinking about the folks up in Forks. I resisted the pull of these horny teenage vampires for years before finally giving in to my girlfriend’s plea to watch the movies with her. It only took thirty minutes of Kristen Stewart looking bored and Robert Pattinson looking constipated to make me […]

This book got canceled because of its author’s online behavior, but I think we should be reading it anyway.

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

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I just need to write this review. It just needs to happen. I read the book back in APRIL and it is now August. I’ve been letting the whole THING around this book and it getting canceled and review-bombed get to me. This was a book club pick for one of my in-person book clubs, and my friend Alison who picked it definitely picked it in part because it was a controversial book and she likes drama. If you’re not aware of the drama surrounding […]



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