Cannonball Read 17

You’ve heard of Queen for a Day? This is Duchess for a Month.

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff

October 5, 2025 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR 17 BINGO: School, because Helene has Trinity and Oriel Colleges in Oxford on her must-see list and has a hissy fit when she almost doesn't get to see them BINGO: School, Diaspora, G, Border, Work One of the surprising benefits of stumbling upon a beautiful, used copy of 84, Charing Cross … [Read more]

KimMiE"'s CBR17 Review No:32 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr17, cbr17bingo, helene hanff, KimMiE" ·

What is a flop, anyway?

Box Office Poison by Tim Robey

October 5, 2025 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

One of my coworkers and I love to chat movies. When his birthday came this year I went on the hunt for a book about Hollywood that I thought would be up his alley and while I couldn’t put my hands on my first choice for him Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris (a book I read back in 2008 before … [Read more]

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:43 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: borrow, Box Office Poison, cbr17bingo, flops, hollywood history, Tim Robey ·

A Giant of Scientific Thought and Deep Humanity

The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

October 5, 2025 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: TBR. This has been on my TBR for ages. [T]he history of science–by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans–teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but … [Read more]

esmemoria's CBR17 Review No:50 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Carl Sagan, cbr17bingo, science, skepticism ·

Dear Faerie: We Need to Chat About How to Put a Fair Maternity Leave Plan in Place.

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire

October 5, 2025 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

Look, I do feel a bit bad not following every bingo tile to the letter, but I have one that I am having difficulty filling, and I have not written a review for an October Day novel for nearly two years, so I think I can excuse myself. First, a point of confusion: I had thought that the next book … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Blood Everywhere, cbr17bingo, faeries, Free Space, October Daye, pregnancy, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy ·

Scuttlebut

Network Effect (Murderbot #5) by Martha Wells

October 5, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Murderbot is at it again. Once more, he is keeping his favourite humans (or at the very least, humans that it doesn’t hate) safe as they do exploration work. On the return, though, their ship is hijacked and dragged into a wormhole by none other than ART (short for Asshole Research Transport), … [Read more]

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:55 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: martha wells, murderbot ·

Another Infuriating Debacle.

Doctored by Charles Piller

October 5, 2025 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

This ended up being another one of those books I had to read over an extended period of time due the stress it gave me. This book shares some similarity to John Carreyrou's Bad Blood in a way, but it covers a field that I am somewhat less familiar with, which also contributed to it becoming a … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:28 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Alzheimers, cbr17bingo, Charles Piller, fraud, medicine, rec'd, true story ·

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