Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

CBR11 Bingo: The Collection

Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron

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I think the only appropriate thing to read after a book heavily influenced by Nora Ephron is a collection written by Ms Ephron herself. “The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.” Wallflower at the Orgy is a collection of articles Ephron wrote in the late 1960’s and early 70’s. You can tell that this collection was relevant when it was originally published but unfortunately the articles didn’t age well. For the […]

Waiting for Tom Hanks (a.k.a shut up Annie you don’t deserve a movie star)

Waiting for Tom Hanks (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #1) by Kerry Winfrey

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CBR11 Bingo: Two Heads are Better Than One Caitlin_D: So when I started to read this book I knew immediately that you need to read it too. And then I remembered I needed someone to write a review with me!! Badkittyuno: I love rom-coms. (Caitlin_D: we both do) In fact, one of my favorite things about my fiance is that he is 100% willing to watch silly romantic movies with me. And as a child of the 90s (and a huge Nora Ephron fan), I […]

I’m as shocked as anyone that I love a book about trees!

Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori

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CBR11bingo: Not My Wheelhouse BINGO, diagonally: Cannonballer Says, Not My Wheelhouse, Own Voices, Illustrated, Reading the TBR I may have been called a tree hugger in my day, but botany has never been my area. I can enjoy plants from a purely aesthetic point of view, but reading an entire book dedicated to trees? For my tree fix, I’d prefer to turn to Joyce Kilmer’s 12-line poem and call it a day. But Jonathan Drori’s Around the World in 80 Trees. . . I’m speechless! This […]

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 […]

I’ll need a round two

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

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Compare anything to Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire and you’ve pretty much guaranteed I will jump right on it so when I saw Black Leopard, Red Wolf being teased as “African Game of Thrones” right on my hold list it went. But I’m going to need at least one more pass at this because I just couldn’t quite find my way through it. It was like I could never quite find my entry point, like I was just lost and wandering at the gates. I […]

Opacities (Blackout Bingo, Award winners)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Ok, I had half started this review for my penultimate bingo square, and then realized that I almost missed the opportunity to make this book LITERALLY TITLED ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE AND FEATURING A BLIND PROTAGONIST my blackout finish. Luckily I realized my error in time to finish strong. This book follows Marie-Laure, a girl with congenital cataracts which have left her blind, in Nazi-occupied France. Her father, a locksmith for the Museum, is one of four employees sent with a priceless gem […]



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