Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Has the bones of “Beauty and the Beast” but more sexy and with faeries. CBR Bingo – Cannonballer Says

A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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In August, alwaysanswerb posted a review of A Court of Thorns and Roses.  The review also covers the other two books in the trilogy of the same name.  It starts with over all impressions before moving into spoiler territory.  I stopped at the spoilers because I had been convinced to read this book and didn’t want to know!  Having finished A Court of Thorns and Roses, I’m wishing I had put the whole series on hold at the library instead of just the first one. […]

We don’t know what happens Behind Closed Doors…

Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris

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So I cheated a little bit with this one.  A coworker read this book and lent it to me because she loved it and wanted to talk about it.  I went to my trusty old CBR page to see if anyone had reviewed it.  I saw that badkittyuno read it and loved it, so I knew it was a safe bet: behind-closed-doors-badkittyuno/ So this book will be fulfilling my cbr11bingo Cannonballer Says square! When my friend Brianne gave me the book she said she read […]

2nd Bingo!!!

Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story by Debbie Tung

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The lovely faintingviolet read this recently, and her review prompted me to immediately request it from my library. I am an extroverted introvert (I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s true), and an INFJ on the Meyers Briggs scale, so when faintingviolet said that Debbie Tung’s Quiet Girl in a Noisy World hit all the right spots for her (an also INFJ and an introvert), I decided to give this a go. I’m not usually one for graphic novels, but I’m trying new things […]

Why Shouldn’t Quiet Be Strong? (CBR11 Bingo)

Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert’s Story by Debbie Tung

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I love a list, LOVE them. When Bingo is unveiled I happily settle in and draft up what books I want to read for what squares, cross-referencing them with my other reading challenges to see which books might cross-pollinate, and finally devise a schedule to try to get a Blackout by the time Bingo wraps up. It worked perfectly last year as I snuck in just under the wire with my 25th review. This year its been a slightly more bumpy road, two months in […]

“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says Caitlin_D posted her review of Words in Deep Blue a few days before I got on the Cannonball Read site in late June for some book inspiration.  I hadn’t exactly been paying much attention to new releases, so I quickly ended up discovering that some previously enjoyed authors had new novels out which were promptly added to the cart.  Between the review, the title and the cover, something about this novel appealed to me, so it too made the cut (I […]

“She was glad to have met someone who liked to read.” (Double Bingo)

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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#CBR11 Bingo: Cannonballer Says (recommended by Carriejay, faintingviolet, emmalita, dAvid, tillie, badkittyuno and Narfna, among others) Official book description: Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people […]



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