cbr13bingo – Page 15 – Cannonball Read 17

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small.”

Björnstad (Beartown) by Fredrick Backman

October 24, 2021 by Malin 3 Comments

CBR13 Bingo: Sports Ball (could easily also be used as Rec’d, since a lot of Cannonballers have read and reviewed it favourably) Official book description: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better […]

An Affair you won’t remember

The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

October 24, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

The Heir Affair is the second installment in Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan’s (of gofugyourself.com fame) royal fanfic series. The story picks up the adventures of Prince Nicholas and his new wife Bex (a thinly disguised Will and Kate, if Kate was also somehow a mix of Kate and Meaghan) immediately after their wedding. I would recommend reading these in order- there are some plot points that connect and you’ll give yourself some spoilers if you read the second novel first- on which point: beware […]

CBR Bingo- What does home mean?

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

October 24, 2021 by persnickety chick 1 Comment

This fills the Home square of the CBR Bingo card quite nicely! It’s taken me a long time to get around to reading the Wayward Children series and i actually started with book 2- Down among the sticks and bones. Wayward children is about a school/home for children who have been “taken into fairyland”. There are many lands, all of them different from outs. There is a rough schematic of how these worlds fall relative to each other- between logic and nonsense and virtue and […]

“What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?” “I would think an infamous rake would already know.” “I was never infamous. In fact, I’m fairly standard as far as rakes go.”

A Cold-Hearted Rake (The Ravenels #1) by Lisa Kleypas

October 23, 2021 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Roguish Cannonball Read Bingo: Gateway My one word may seem a little on the nose because “rake” is right there in the title, but this is a fun romp about three roguish rakes (or two and a half really, since one fellow is introduced mainly as the set-up to book #2 in the series) who have forsaken love for either leisure or work but might be (okay, definitely will be) answering the siren song of a woman soon. Though I started with […]

“Don’t you think it’s possible that this could be good? That maybe this won’t lead to disaster after all? What if we find out that we fit together, like your grandparents and their hands?” (Bingo #8)

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

October 23, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Blackout is a novel comprised of several short stories covering five hours in the course of one night in New York as it experiences a blackout. Tiffany D. Jackson writes The Long Walk which is broken up into five acts, Nic Stone contributes Mask Off (perhaps my favorite of the bunch), Ashley Woodfolk’s Made to Fit, Dhonielle Clayton provides All the Great Love Stories… and Dust, as well as being the person who sparked the project into existence, Angie Thomas’s No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and […]

A hodgepodge of Italians, Poles, Syrians, Lebanese, Greeks and the occasional bearded Amish family…

New Castle's Kadunce Murders: Mystery and the Devil in Northwest Pennsylvania by Dale Richard Perelman

October 23, 2021 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBRBINGO13: Home Square (BINGO! The Wilds square to Book Club square) I think this close to Halloween, it’s fitting that I picked a book about a murder in my hometown that haunted my middle school dreams. New Castle is a small rust belt town about an hour and 1/2 northwest of Pittsburgh. By the time I was growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, most of the city was already in decline as local industry and jobs dried up. It wasn’t a bad place to […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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