Welcome to the cbr13bingo October check-in! You have 27 more days to play! There are 31 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 411 reviews. This post is a place for you to ask questions, ask for recommendations for categories. You can always post your questions in our Facebook group – Cannonball Read Book Chat, or on Twitter @cannonballread. Finally, we’ll be posting administrative notes and reminders. Administrative Stuff Photos and Images: For the categories that ask for an image on the cover (Flora, Cityscape, People, Landscape and Fauna), […]
CBR Diversions – Unbanned Fiction
Did you hear about the students and parents in Pennsylvania who banded together to pressure a school board into overturning a ban on books, most of which were written by Black and Brown authors? I looked over the very long list, and then I read the rationale behind the ban. The board believes that the fundamental purpose of school is that of core academics, objective education without indoctrination from any political or social agenda… The racism really jumps out. One thing that struck me, among […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: Jake
How do you decide what to read next on your TBR list? I wish I had an easy answer. In the summer, I participate in various library bingo games, which help me clear my shelves of books I would otherwise let sit there. I read only Black writers in February and I’m going to try to read only female/femme writers in March. I collect Hard Case Crime novels and make a point to read one a month. Otherwise, it’s wherever the wind (and my library […]
September Bingo Check-In
Welcome to the cbr13bingo September check-in! Congratulations to BlackRaven for Blacking out her card on August 18! We’re at the half-way(ish) point of the game. There are 30 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 287 reviews. This post is a place for you to ask questions, ask for recommendations for categories. You can always post your questions in our Facebook group – Cannonball Read Book Chat, or on Twitter @cannonballread. Finally, we’ll be posting administrative notes and reminders. Administrative Stuff Photos and Images: For the […]
CBR Diversions: Most Memorable Books of the Summer
The other day my Facebook memories was flooded with “10 Most Memorable Books” lists from 7 years ago. Of the 10 books on my list, I would probably still include 3 today. Which got me thinking about the books I’ve read this summer, and which ones I think I will remember, revisit, or recommend as the years go by. I think my most memorable books of the summer are going to be: Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild Built*. It hit me in exactly […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: esmemoria
You read a lot of heavy stuff! (Or ‘deep’ as you call them.) What do you like best about reading challenging books? I am very interested in how people get through difficult or traumatic experiences. It’s kind of like why I watch a lot of true crime. There is something about people’s responses to adversity that make me feel more connected to humanity and my own story. Even when books don’t have an uplifting ending, I find it important to understand life in all of […]
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