Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“But somehow I’m still here, and he’s still here, and even though I still feel like a hopeless case, this thing between us doesn’t feel hopeless at all.”

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR 13 Bingo Square: Shelfie THIS BOOK!  After having reread Carry On and Wayward Son, I was primed for Any Way the Wind Blows.  I devoured it so quickly that I immediately reread to be able to slow down and better absorb the story.   Rowell brings the Simon Snow trilogy to a satisfying close but what an emotional journey to get there.  Carrying their hearts on their sleeves, Simon and Baz are so vulnerable and continually bracing for the pain that might come.  Penelope’s decisions and the […]

Growing up brown in Norway is no picnic

Hør Her'a! (Listen here!) by Gulraiz Sharif

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CBR13 Bingo: Free (borrowed at the library) Official book description (translated by me): It is summer vacation and fifteen-year-old Mahmoud is imagining long days on the bench outside his building with his friend, one-eyed Arif. This summer will be different, however, because the family is getting a visit from Uncle-ji from Pakistan and Mahmoud’s job will be to show his uncle around. Uncle-ji is very surprised at what he sees in Norway, and what is going on with Ali, Mahmoud’s little brother, who is not […]

A hilarious and cheeky take on who Jesus (Joshua) was growing up, before becoming the Messiah

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

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CBR13 Bingo Square: Pandemic – I highly recommend reading this during a pandemic, the laughs were needed! No disrespect to Christopher Moore but had I not procrastinated I would have seen Jenny Lawson in conversation with either Felicia Day or Neil Gaiman for her Broken (in the best possible way) promotion.  However, I’m grateful I did as this was my first event with Moore and he was highly entertaining!  Lawson shared that Lamb is her favorite book by him which instantly put it on my […]

“I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel”

Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson

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4.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Rep (features honest and sometimes graphic descriptions of life with a variety of mental and chronic illnesses) It’s no secret that Jenny Lawson, known online and to her followers as The Bloggess, suffers from a large number of ailments, both physical and mental. She has dealt with various kinds of chronic illness throughout her life and manages to be mostly very light-hearted and humourous about it. I chose to get this book in audio, because Jenny Lawson narrates her own books, […]

There are remnant spirits in this country from another time.

Simon The Fiddler by Paulette Giles

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CBR 13 BINGO: The Wilds Giles’ Map of the World was one of my top 3 for CBR 10. LOVED that little book. My feelings for this one are the same. It hits “The Wilds” bingo square as the bulk of the story is spent travelling all over east Texas: the shores of the Rio Grande, the docks of Galveston, the swamps of Houston and the wagon trail from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio. The landscape of post Civil War Texas is one […]

…for in that direction she saw a quiet by preventable tragedy, if only people could be brave enough to go after what they really wanted.

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

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CBR13 BINGO: People I am not a re-reader. I think that I have only re-read maybe 2-3 books EVER. There are so many books out there, and so little time. I’m not a particularly fast reader so I stick with the new experiences rather than re-living the old. That being said, this novel did have me wondering just why on earth I haven’t suspended my self imposed “rule” for all of the Jane Austen novels. I dragged out the reading of her novels for YEARS because […]



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