Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The stars are people, and you do not fix people.”

The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg

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CBR14Bingo – Bird: The supreme deity in this universe is the goddess Bird and some of her creation lore plays a large part in the book. There is no one else in the world that writes fantasy like R.B. Lemberg: lyrical, heartfelt, and queer, the kind of deeply thoughtful writing that leaves you pondering things long after you’ve finished the book. It’s a magical experience and one I look forward to every time, but one that’s also accessible for a new reader. So while this […]

Cat-and-mouse in the New Orleans bayous

The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart

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BINGO – Time (spoilers) I checked this audiobook out from my local library on a whim. I wanted a thriller/horror for Halloween time and this was available. I figured since the author, Alaina Urquhart, was the host of a popular true-crime podcast that this book would be a fun but forgettable book. I did not anticipate how much I would enjoy it. The book is told from the point of view of two people: Medical Examiner Wren Muller and a serial killer known as The […]

CBR14 Bingo – Week 14 Check-in

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Welcome to the Week 13 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Happy National Pasta Day! It’s also Pasta Month! Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 8 reviews, 1 Bingo anana – 4 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – 9 reviews, 1 Bingo BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – Blackout Classic – Blackout CoffeeShopReader – 22 reviews, 7 Bingo Debcapsfan – 1 review Dome’Loki –  17 reviews, 2 Bingo drmllz – 3 reviews ElCicco – Blackout elderberrywine – […]

It’s cute! It’s spooky! It’s… kooky!

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

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CBR14Bingo – White Elephant: OK, this is stretching this one, but this is the perfect sort of thing to actually use in a white elephant gift exchange. It’s weird enough to make people go ??? but also interesting and cute enough to make them go !!! Sarah Andersen brings her signature humor and charm to spooky season. I’ve been a pretty big fan of her other work, and I’m a pretty big fan of crytpids (please check out some of my other questionable reading choices), […]

“You can’t protect what’s precious to you through violence” … unless there’s a bargain sale involved

The Way of the Househusband vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono

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CBR14Bingo – Funky: I can’t think of much funkier than a former yakuza gangster applying the same energy to bargain hunting as offing people. And, it’s my first BINGO! I’d heard wonderful things about this manga, so when I saw it was finally available at my library, well, I jumped on it. It’s a hilarious collection of loosely connected slice-of-life stories from a yakuza who’s traded turf battles for bargain sales. Tatsu has retired from being the infamous “Immortal Dragon” of the yakuza underworld to become […]

A Swoony Series Ender

Her Unexpected Roommate by Jackie Lau

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I have arrived at the final Cider Bar Sisters book by Jackie Lau. This is Rose’s story, and we’ve been introduced to Rose and her depression in bits and pieces over the previous books, but I think it’s important to note that Her Unexpected Roommate opens with an author’s note where Jackie Lau lays out what her reasons are for writing a lead like Rose and exactly the sorts of struggles the reader is going to experience via her characters (specifically treatment-resistant depression, and trauma […]



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