Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Two authors is one too many

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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CBR11 Bingo Rainbow Flag square. This is a collaborative book written by two authors who have had individual success in the Young Adult market. Arthur and Ben meet cute at a post office when Arthur follows a cute guy who is trying to mail a package to his ex-boyfriend. They don’t exchange information before they are separated by a flash mob and then spend a third of the story thinking about how to find the other, and if it is even worth the attempt. Arthur […]

I Could Make a Pun Here, But Just Read the Book

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

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BINGO: Rainbow Flag Best for: People who enjoy quality fiction, ridiculously good writing, and are looking for something a little different in their protagonist. In a nutshell: Writer Arthur Less’s ex-boyfriend is getting married. Arthur Less is about to turn 50. Instead of wallowing, Arthur Less decides to accept all the literary invites he’s received and spend the summer traveling the world. Worth quoting: “You and me, we’ve met geniuses. And we know we’re not like them, don’t we? What is it like to go […]

The spotted custard was the kind of place where exceptions were made, because everyone was strange and exceptional.

Reticence by Gail Carriger

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CBR BINGO: Love This I have been a huge Gail Carriger fan now for a decade. Yep. That’s when she started rolling out her “Parasol Protectorate” series. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE those books and pretty much adore the “Custard Protocol” series (of which this book is the last of). Sassy, witty, stylish romps served with the perfect cup of tea. This is the 13th book (plus a handful of novellas and short stories) in Carriger’s alternate Victorian London full of vampires, meta and pretnaturals, were-younameits, […]

If My Life Was a Story it would have a better sound track….

If This Were a Story by Beth Turley

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#cbr11bingo #SummerRead If This Were a Story looks at anxiety within a modern setting. Perhaps the issues are too easily solved by the end of the book, but it is an over good first novel for the 8 to 10 crowd. Hannah is a pre-junior high student trying to deal with issues even the adults do not always understand: bullies, fighting parents, friends growing apart and school work. Her way of coping is to ignore much of what is going on, keeping her head down, […]

Requires Research

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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I am (mostly) unashamed to admit that my first encounter with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or any of Mark Twain’s books, were not in school, but on my own accord after watching Disney’s 1995 “Tom and Huck.” I was twelve, smitten with the carefree, super hot (at least I thought so at the time) characters going on crazy adventures, and after the movie was over, I wanted more. I read Tom Sawyer first and loved it since the movie follows it fairly closely.  I started Huckleberry […]

Go Fund Yourself. (illustrated, bingo)

Crowded by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt

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Let’s lead with this – this is the best book I’ve reviewed for CBR11. Go buy it, it’s good. I’m breaking one of my self-imposed rules for CBR here. I am a MAJOR comic book reader. I love them. I literally have three bookshelves devoted solely to my comics after having pared the collection down to just the essentials, my local comics purveyors know my life, I once started to estimate how much I spent on the comic books I have and shut that down […]



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