Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Where do you get coins like that?” “In Pairs.” (double bingo, Two heads are better than one)

Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Despite having read The Color of Magic my first day of college, adoring Good Omens, and in general living up to every nerd stereotype, I never got into the Discworld series. So for my dual review, I asked my husband, a major Discworld fan, to recommend a good entry point and discuss the book with me. Apparently much of the internet agrees with the octospouse that this is a good one to start on, and while I did enjoy it, it may have been a […]

And exhausted is my patience. (back to school, bingo)

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I was hoping that re-reading this might make me more apt to like it; after all, it’s been eleven years since I graduated college and this is seen as one of Fitzgerald’s masterworks. But yeah, after MeToo there is no WAY I’m feeling anything resembling sympathy for Dick Diver, the worst psychiatrist in history.  There’s actually a line in flashback where Dick states his aspiration to be the world’s best psychiatrist and his partner thinks he’s joking and laughs; I laughed too because HE MARRIES […]

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 […]

“I shall tell you where we are. We’re in Hell.”

From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell

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I own very few graphic novels, and this one about Jack the Ripper and his crimes I’ve had for years but never read it. Someone gave it to me, but it seemed unappealing because I’ve grown tired of the serial killer who mutilates women. I can stomach it if it is more about the discovering of the murderer’s identity than the actual deeds themselves, which this book, as I understood it, was not about. To just dive into the sick psyche of such a man, […]

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 […]



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