Cannonball Read 17

A Contemporary Canadian Gothic(ish)

The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu by Mindy Hung

October 17, 2025 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Initially, I read The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu back in May (?), but as is wont to happen in 2025, my brain erased all memory of everything I had read. So I started again a few months later and it was like revisiting a friend I hadn’t seen in forever. At first I was a bit anxious because I had … [Read more]

Emmalita's CBR17 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Canada, Mindy Hung, perimenopause, The glowing life of Leeann Wu ·

So easy even Humans can get them

Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld

October 17, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Do you know anything about physics? Well, if you are a more serious provider of this particular knowledge, you might not want to read Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld because there is not a lot of seriousness going on. Then again, maybe you need a bit of humor to get you through the bumps, bruises and … [Read more]

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:405 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Featured, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: science-based cartoons, Tom Gauld ·

A Bit of Illogical Fun

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

October 17, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: “I” Seventeen year old Avery is on the ropes. Her mother has died, her father is nowhere around, and she’s living with her beloved sister until her sister’s abusive boyfriend moves in. Refusing to live with him, Avery moves into her car. What she doesn’t know is her life is about to change … [Read more]

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: cbr17bingo, Jennifer Lynn Barnes ·

Yes, There Will be a Quiz

1066 and All That. A Memorable History of England, Comprising all the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates by W. C. Sellar

October 17, 2025 by elderberrywine 1 Comment

cbr17 bingo School A real oddball of a book! Basically, it is a photocopy of a previously existing library book, (dated 1930) including a copy of check out card and index card (remember card catalogues?). The back blurb states: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally … [Read more]

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:55 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: 1920s, British history, british humor, cbr17 bingo, Delightful illustrations, Not to be trusted in the least, The best quizzes, W. C. Sellar ·

“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

October 17, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo 25: A Bookish Memoir/biography CBR17 Pie Chart: Education CBR17 Bingo: Citizen (Nafisi lived and taught in Iran during increasingly more dictatorial strictures against its citizens) Official summary: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a … [Read more]

Malin's CBR17 Review No:61 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, authoritarianism, Azar Nafisi, BIPOC, cbr17, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, cbr17bingo, dictatorship, feminism, friendship, liteature, literary analysis, Malin, non fiction ·

Wish You Were Here

The Balloon Hunter by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor

October 17, 2025 by Tracy Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo - review (from TikTok) I think this might be the most unique book I've ever read. It's a short novel told exclusively through postcards (that seem to be actually hand-written). The two characters are Rita, who writes the postcards and sends them out attached to balloons, and Clayton, … [Read more]

Tracy's CBR17 Review No:73 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Elinor Taylor, Hugh Howey, Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor, post-apocolyptic ·

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