I apologize now, this review will not really be a review. It is more a love letter to our community here at Cannonball Read. Of the ten books we had to choose from for So Popular, I had read most, but not all. The ones I haven’t read I don’t care to (looking at you, Divergent) so I was thinking about re-reading Eleanor & Park to go with last year’s re-read of Attachments or maybe The Martian to see if I still had a book […]
#CBR10Bingo: Two Heads Are Better Than One – introducing my husband (Blackout AND double Cannonball!)
#CBR10Bingo: Two Heads Are Better Than One So my final review of #CBR10Bingo requires some assistance, and I will be joined by my husband Mark (“Hello!”), who also gave me the book we’re co-reviewing. I figured I should start with some background. I hadn’t watched any of the now hugely popular children’s television program Doctor Who until I went to University in Scotland in the late 1990s, early 2000s. Of course, this was because at that point, the show wasn’t actually on the air, and anyone who […]
Animals make us human
cbr10bingo… Backlog BINGO #2 I got this on my Kindle on March 20, 2013. That’s over five years ago. I think it’s the first Kindle book I ever bought? I don’t know why it took me so long to read it. I guess I heard some stuff about how Temple Grandin was involved in helping to create humane slaughter practices, and I didn’t want to read about animal slaughter, even if it was humane. It turns out that only small parts of a few chapters talk […]
Fly Evangelist
You lot – yes, you lot over there, pouring all over the cute cat and puppy pictures on the internet? All those bloody memes? Have you ever stopped to think that there was more to fawning over cute and cuddly mammals? Have you ever considered diverting at least some of your attention in the direction of the poor, neglected invertebrates? Erin McAlister’s book ‘The Secret Life of Flies’ is like an Evangelist’s pamphlet for Diptera. She’s here to tell you fly stories, and hopefully, by […]
The End (CBR10 BINGO)
CBR 10 BINGO Square: This Is The End (Last in the Dark Iceland series) Best for: Completionists. Although if you’re not familiar with any of the characters in the series but like mysteries, you’ll probably enjoy this. In a nutshell: A police officer (not our protagonist) is shot at an abandoned house. Had he stumbled upon a drug deal? Was the mayor involved? Or was something else going on? Why I chose it: When I read the first in the series, I immediately bought the […]
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
[1/2 CANNONBALL!!!] [BINGO 4 & BINGO 5] After a steady stretch of some seriously challenging reading, I decided that to fill my final CBR10 Bingo square for “The Book Was Better,” I’d read something cheerful and pleasant. So, Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back by PL Travers it was! They were a perfect choice. Since I had only ever seen the Julie Andrews movie from 1964, and had never read any of the books in the series, this seemed a perfect opportunity to read the source material before Mary Poppins Returns comes out […]
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