Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

CBR11Bingo: The Collection & Reader’s Choice — BLACKOUT!

A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

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Woohoo! I’ve got a blackout board and I’m almost completely caught up on reviews (10 left after this one). A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett I don’t normally read or really enjoy short stories, so this is definitely a good example of Bingo making us broaden our horizons! I found this short story collection by searching “collection” on Overdrive. I had thought I might reread some Stephen King or Neil Gaimen short stories, but when I saw this Terry Prachett […]

CBR11Bingo: Classics

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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I tried really hard guys. I want to be a person who likes Charlotte Brontë or Jane Austen and reads loftier works then the YA fiction and detective thrillers that make up the bulk of my TBR. I figured Bingo will be a great opportunity to force me to get something a little different a shot, so I downloaded Jane Eyre. I was hoping that listening to it on audio book might make it more enjoyable then trying to read the print version (which I […]

CBR11 Bingo: Travel

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

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The writing in this book is very simple, but that makes the extremely powerful story it’s telling feel much more accessible. Despite the rather adult nature of the topic, it feels like it’s written to a slightly younger audience than most of the YA fiction I read. Which is good, in my opinion. This is the kind of book both girls and boys should be able to read and understand before they reach high school. “Thirty minutes feels like forever when you’re standing in a […]

CBR11Bingo: Banned Books and Back to School

A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, E.G. Keller (Illustrator)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

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I’ve almost got this thing blacked out! Here are two CBRBingo11 reviews — both books courtesy of my children. CBR11Bingo: Banned Books — A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, E.G. Keller (Illustrator) I can’t remember who got this for my kids — I want to say it was Caitlin_D, but I might be wrong. The thing is, I have many wonderfully liberal and subversive friends and family who would all jump at the chance to buy my boys a book […]

And this one is just a grab bag!

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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We’ve got space spiders, a magical mystery, a serial-killer, and a literal deal with the devil. How’s that for a grab bag? (2 stars) Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky I REALLY wanted to like this. I am mad that I didn’t. Set in the future, Children of Time takes place after humans have finished destroying the Earth. A spaceship takes off with the last of humanity in suspended animation, heading towards a planet that has been terraformed in preparation for […]

This post is a grab bag of fiction

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

A Lily in the Light by Kristin Fields

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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So I’ve got three fiction novels to review here — all of which are kind of hard to classify, which is how they ended up here… (4 stars) Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah I didn’t really know what to expect from this one, but I ended up really liking it. The writing was lovely and the characters were very realistically portrayed. “If she’d learned one thing in the last two years, it was that life could be hard enough without adding […]



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