Cannonball Read 17

What? He Quit?

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

October 4, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo Free Meeting up with our old friend Mike Bowditch, game warden, it turns out that he is no longer a game warden! Except for one of his first supervisors, Sgt. Kathy Frost, none of the rest of the folks he’s worked for have been too keen on him. There is that odd predicament … [Read more]

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Always helpful to be rich, Bloodshed, cbr17bingo, Dead dog awwww, Maine woods are not a place for the nervous, Mike Bowditch - former game warden, Paul Doiron, Suicide by cop-not good dude ·

Books about books are the best kinds of books

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

October 4, 2025 by KimMiE" 6 Comments

CBR 17 BINGO: Favorite (revisiting this old favorite for Bingo) BINGO: Favorite, Red, Family, Border, Green Visiting local bookshops is standard practice whenever my husband and I go on vacation. Recently in Vancouver, we wandered into a store called MacLeod's Books, which is one of those … [Read more]

KimMiE"'s CBR17 Review No:31 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Books about books, cbr17, cbr17bingo, helene hanff, KimMiE" ·

Gals being literary rivals, then pals, then more?

Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti

October 4, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. Lady Georgiana Cleeve was disowned by her father when she announced that she was the author of several popular novels, and has lived alone with her mother ever since, cut off from all contact with her brothers, … [Read more]

Malin's CBR17 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Alexandra Vasti, ARC, authors, Belvoir's Library, cbr17, emotional abuse, family, gothic, historical romance, Ladies in Hating, LGBTQIA, Malin, NetGalley, Regency ·

B*Witched

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

October 4, 2025 by NatalieH Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: 'B' Horror isn't my usual genre, but it's October, and I really enjoyed one of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's previous novels (Mexican Gothic), so I figured I would give her latest release, The Bewitching, a try. This is a novel about witches, told over three timelines. Minerva, in 1998, is … [Read more]

NatalieH's CBR17 Review No:78 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, silvia moreno-garcia ·

This memoir legitimately deserves 5 stars, but I’m too angry to give it a rating yet

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

October 4, 2025 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR 17 BINGO: "G" (for Glass) Back in 2019, I recommended Educated to my sister. After she read and enjoyed (not sure that's the right word) it , she asked me whether I'd ever read The Glass Castle. "In some ways, it's worse," she told me. I finally got around to reading The Glass Castle, and I … [Read more]

KimMiE"'s CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, alcoholism, Alcoholism and mental health issues, cbr17, cbr17bingo, Jeannette Walls, KimMiE", mental illness ·

Our Little Rainbow Warriors

The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata

October 4, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

The Rainbow Troops (Laskar Pelangi) was first published about 20 years ago in Indonesia, where it soon became an absolute bestseller. The book, very loosely based on Andrea Hirata’s own childhood, is set on Belitong Island, where the people are poor, but the surrounds are rich in tin. Most children … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Andrea Hirata, cbr17bingo, Education, Indonesia, school, semi-autobiography ·

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