Cannonball Read 17

A sinister Halloweentown, a missing dad, a murder. CBRBINGO – Free Space (in place of Border)

No Rest for the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams

November 6, 2025 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn't affected the contents of my review. So many thoughts, where to start. How about that cover? I love it, but questionable marketing. Not sure it conveys the tone of the story! Which is not horror, and is not cozy at all. There are … [Read more]

narfna's CBR17 Review No:33 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: ARCs, audiobooks, cbr17bingo, mystery, narfna, No Rest for the Wicked, Rachel Louise Adams ·

“My unhappiness was rooted in my mother’s inability to stop drinking.”

There Was a Little Girl by Brooke Shields

November 5, 2025 by Sophia 1 Comment

CBR17Bingo: "School" - because Brooke Shields talks a lot about the process of getting into Princeton and how much that school changed her life. I'd recently seen some media of Brooke Shields talking about her childhood, so she was in the back of my mind when I was hunting for another audiobook … [Read more]

Sophia's CBR17 Review No:42 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Brooke Shields, cbr17bingo ·

The Hardest Loss of All

Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

November 5, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

In this book, the fourth in the Maisie Dobbs series, Maisie is asked to investigate the death of an old school acquaintance’s twin brother. Nick Basington-Hope was a controversial artist and a veteran of the recent Great War, as is Maisie. He had been keeping his work from the view of others due … [Read more]

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: 1920s Britian, Anti-war sentiments, Artists colony on the beach, Jacqueline Winspear, Lives of the workin class not as frtunate, Maisie has her hands full, Mitfords love this new guy Hitler, Plenty of PTS from WWI, Ruling class still has big money ·

“In my mind, the world is not reasonable, and can never be made reasonable. It is more interesting than that.”

In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

November 5, 2025 by Sophia Leave a Comment

President Obama and I don't always have the same taste in literature, but I still anticipate his list of favorite books of the year more than any other list out there (although NPR's list is a close second). I only heard of and read In Ascension (2023) by Martin MacInnes because of Obama, and now … [Read more]

Sophia's CBR17 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Martin MacInnes ·

As Slippery as a Fish

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

November 5, 2025 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

"Billy Gould could not escape the growing suspicion that he had become entrapped in a book, a character whose future as much as his past was already written, determined, foretold, as unalterable as it was intolerable. What choice did he have but to destroy that book?" I’ve saved the most … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: art, Australia, cbr17bingo, fish, Fishes, metafiction, Richard Flanagan ·

Esperanza Rising: Powerful Historical Fiction for the Y.A. Crowd

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

November 5, 2025 by BigNerdes 5 Comments

I was excited to read Esperanza Rising because Pam Munoz Ryan wrote perhaps my all-time favorite Y.A. novel, Echo. It did not disappoint. Munoz Ryan excels at crafting thought-provoking historical fiction for the fourth/fifth grade crowd...though I personally enjoy her work myself and think other … [Read more]

BigNerdes's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Pam Muñoz Ryan ·

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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