Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

CBR12 Book Bingo – Gateway

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

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What was it like? Living in that house. Home Before Dark is a gateway book for me for two reasons: 1. It’s my first introduction to Riley Sager, and now I am OBSESSED with his books; 2. It’s my intro into LOVING horror books. I have spent a great deal of my life afraid of the horror genre, due to a traumatic viewing of the original Carrie at an impressionable age. In my adult life, I read Carrie to try to rid myself of the deeply embedded fear […]

October CBR12 Bingo Check In

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We are almost at the end!!!! Administrative Stuff Check your numbers! I caught a couple of bingo reviews that hadn’t been tagged correctly, so make sure I’ve got all of your reviews counted. There are 37 Cannonballers playing, and you have posted 399 reviews. This post is a place for you to ask questions, ask for recommendations for categories, and find a review buddy if you need one. You can always post your questions in our Facebook group – Cannonball Read Book Chat, or on Twitter @cannonballread. […]

A walk down white man memory lane (Bingo – Gateway)

Chances Are by Richard Russo

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I’ve been drawn to reading more diverse authors/stories lately so I feel a bit of guilt for going back to an old favorite, Richard Russo, an older white guy who writes predominately about old white guys, and this book is no different. That said, why should I fault Russo for writing what he presumably knows and creating layered and interesting characters, and why should I fault myself for reading a good book? I’ve liked every book of his that I read and consider his writing […]

Poisoning, Police, ex-husbands, oh my (Bingo – Fresh Start)

Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1) by Diane Mott Davidson

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This was a silly book about silly people and it is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve devoured many a mystery series in my day, and have a strong fondness for small town murder mystery hijinks, as I’m a big fan of TV’s Murder She Wrote and the book series by Lillian Jackson Braun, Rita Mae Brown and Alan Bradley. So, it was this hole I was trying to fill with Diane Mott Davidson so picked up the first of this series, published in […]

Small but mighty, a lot of heartache in a little book (Bingo – Friendship)

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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This novel is based on the true story of a boy’s reform school in Florida where abuse and mistreatment were rampant. And if that’s not enough, it’s also about the implications of race in such an environment, and how one black young man (Elmwood) essentially is railroaded into this awful place by being in the wrong place at the right time. The 2020 Pulitzer winner is not messing around. At it’s core, it is the story of the friendship that blossoms between Elmwood and Turner, […]

“People can be unpredictable in their cruelty.”

Real Life: A Novel by Brandon Taylor

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Cbr12bingo Debut BINGO diagonal, Money to Music Brandon Taylor’s debut novel Real Life has been nominated for a Booker Prize. Warning: contains scenes of violence, rape, abuse Real Life is the excellent debut novel from Brandon Taylor, nominated for the 2020 Booker Prize. Taylor shows the effect of memory, the past and racism on one man’s life. The setting is a mid-western university at the end of summer, and the protagonist Wallace is a graduate student who is gay and Black. The action takes place over […]



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