Welcome to the mid year check-in for the CBR15 Passport challenge! You can see the challenges and rules here. This is a self directed, year-long challenge, so I’m noting the Cannonballers who have posted at least one Passport review, but not how many reviews. BlackRaven booktrovert carmelpie Debcapsfan ElCicco elderberrywine Jake jomidi kittenkong42 Leedock LittlePlat Malin Mobius_Walker narfna persnickity chick Pooja reginadelmar The Chancellor I hope the challenge is fun and motivating. If you have questions or suggestions for improvement, please tell me in the […]
CBR15 Bingo-Week 1 Check-in
Welcome to the first weekly check-in post for the CBR15 Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can view the kick-off post with the categories, rules and card here. The Players: BlackRaven – 23 reviews, 10 bingos* carmelpie – 1 review GentleRain – 4 reviews KimMiE” – 1 review Malin – 2 reviews Merryn – 1 review RevGirlUtena – 2 reviews Sophia – 1 review tiny_bookbot – 2 reviews The information above should be accurate as of 10:00 am eastern, Saturday, July 8. If it is not, […]
CBR15 Book Bingo Reading Challenge Begins
As with last year, you interpret the categories. How easy or challenging you make your reading is up to you. Below are suggested interpretations and some suggestions are stronger than others. But it’s your time so pick books that appeal to you. Our theme this year has been travel your bookshelf. Like traveling, reading can expand our world. While a bad vacation may be a lifetime of stories, a bad book is just miserable. You don’t have to finish a book to review it. There […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: elderberrywine
You read a wide variety of stuff! (Second tier Russian classical authors?) How do you decide what to read next on your TBR list? I generally read two books at once, unless one of them really gets going. I have a list of books to read, goes back about 20 years by now, about 120 pages long. So first I try the LA County library system, and then Powell’s, and then Abe’s, a British used book system. Sometimes when I get it, I do wonder […]
CBR Diversions: Oh, The Horror – With a Chainsaw
I am a huge scaredy cat! I cannot watch horror movies or read horror books. I still have nightmares from scary movies I saw as a kid. This makes me the perfect person to pen the Cannonball Read Horror in Summer blog post. Nowadays, there are so many subgenres of horror books – Gothic, Paranormal, Psychological, Post-Apocalyptic, and Sci-Fi, to name a few. But I am taking you back to the old horror genre of Splatterpunk. How could anybody not love that word? Under the […]
CBR Diversions: You made me read it!
We humans succumb easily to peer pressure. We want to fit in. We want to do what our friends are doing. Well, it is no different with books. You are browsing Cannonball Read reviews and a book catches your eye, you think “Hey, this might be interesting.” Then you keep seeing that book being reviewed, over and over again. Why is everybody reviewing this book? What is all this fuss about? Curiosity gets the better of you, you rush out and read that book. Here […]
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