Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Time for Something New

The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope

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CBR Bingo: Dough. As in “d’oh! This book drags” Nicole Trope’s The Family Across the Street is not a bad thriller, really, but Trope stretches out the plot to a glazed-eye degree. The premise is a family being held hostage by the father, who is enraged his wife wants to leave him. The chapters switch among POVs, including the father’s and his wife. But a lot of the chapters are devoted to others who “have a funny feeling” about what’s going on in the house, […]

Your Favorites Can Still Write Stinkers

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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Read this as part of CBR14Bingo: heart. One of the characters has a heart attack, won’t say which one. Also, Stephen King is a writer who has my heart. I love his books but this one was bad. I don’t really know where to start with how much I did not enjoy this book. And I feel terrible for that because I love Stephen King and appreciate what he is trying to do: rewrite beloved fantasy tales as a means of pandemic escapism. But ugh, this is […]

A slow burn romance with a deadly telekinetic and a wolf alpha.

Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

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CBR Bingo: Cold I’ve been tearing through Nalini Singh’s Psy Changeling novels. Kiss of Snow is the tenth book in the original series. Using this for the “Cold” square due to “Snow” in the title. But also down to the cold nature of the Psy in this world. I highly recommend you read the other nine books before this one. The tension between the love interests has been building across multiple books. So many fans say this is their favorite one. The hype level was […]

A little mystery and a lot of court intrigue

The Missing of Clairedelune: The Mirror Visitor Book 2 by Christelle Dabos

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Cbr14bingo Elephant (memory) the recovery of one character’s memories is key to the plot Book two of Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor series continues to enthrall. Main character Ophelia, who has the gifts of being able to travel through mirrors and “read” the history of objects in her hands, and her betrothed Thorn, the prickly Treasurer of the remote ark known as The Pole, are fast approaching their wedding day and seem no closer to developing a meaningful bond to each other. Meanwhile, in the […]

So many people spent their lives wishing to be understood. All Alice wanted was more time.

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

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CBR14BINGO: Time Square (Hitting the nail on the head here. Very literal. Time in the title. The whole plot is about Time. You get it.) Alice is about to turn 40. A milestone birthday for anyone, but particularly for someone who generally keeps their life on an unproblematic even keel. She lives in New York City where she grew up. Works in the admissions department of her old high school, walking the same hallways of her youth. She even has a convenient boyfriend that doesn’t make […]

..they suspended their arguments, united for once in their astonishment at the unusual spectacle of an elephant lumbering across the square.

The Elephant of Belfast by S. Kirk Walsh

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CBR14 BINGO: Elephant Square (Another literal one. Sometimes googling for the square yields great results, sometimes not so much. ) In 1940s Belfast, a young woman working at the local zoo sees the arrival of a new baby elephant as her opportunity to prove herself. Hoping to become the first female zookeeper at the Belfast zoo, Hettie quickly takes on the responsibility of handling the elephant in addition to all of the menial responsibilities delegated to her. Work is her escape after Hettie’s father abandons […]



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