Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Who are the dolls in the doll house? CBR14 Bingo: ‘Verse

The Sandman, volume 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg (illustrator), Malcolm Jones III (illustrator), Robbie Busch (colorer), Todd Klein (letterer), John Costanza (letter)

by Leave a Comment

CBR14 Bingo: ‘Verse – The Doll’s House is part of the Sandman ‘verse. The Doll’s House introduces readers to the schemes of the Endless.  It contains issues nine through sixteen of ‘The Sandman’ comics wherein Dream sets out to put his kingdom, the Dreaming, back to rights.  A census by castle librarian, Lucien, shows that four major creations have escaped; Brute and Glob, the Corinthian, and Fiddler’s Green. Threaded through is the story of Rose Walker, a human pawn caught in the machinations of the Endless. Desire […]

‘“Nonsense, my dear! It is the 1920s, you know.” She squeezed Bella’s hand. “The world is changing. For the better, I hope.”’

Hotel Portofino by J.P. O'Connell

by Leave a Comment

CBR 14 Bingo: Hot We are on the Italian Riviera in high summer, and the characters lavish in beach days and garden parties. Bella Ainsworth has just opened her hotel in Portofino, but she is already facing trouble – unruly guests, blackmail, and some business about a Rubens… This was my second stab at this book. I received an audiobook ARC originally, but I found it could not keep my attention so I went with an ebook for the library instead and it coasted by […]

‘… and to the women of science whose names we will never know -‘

The Physicists’ Daughter by Mary Anna Evans

by Leave a Comment

CBR 14 Bingo: Minds Justine’s true weapon is her mind, the things she learned from her parents, and her ability to solve problems and crack codes. Justine, a physicists’ daughter who lives in New Orleans, suspects that someone at her factory is a saboteur trying to thwart the war effort. But even she doesn’t know that she is the crosshairs of a spy. I really thought very hard about my rating for this book – I was torn between three stars and four, because while […]

CBR14 Bingo – Week 5 Check-in

by 6 Comments

Welcome to the Week 5 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: adapt. I’m day dreaming about how much I’d love someone to to do a big budget adaptation of Tasha Suri’s Burning Kingdoms series. I read about the Netflix v Unofficial Bridgerton Musical lawsuit last night. Wow. You have to make a lot of bad choices to get me to side with a corporation over individual.   Please check your tags and […]

“People bury the parts of history they don’t like, pave it over like African cemeteries beneath Manhattan skyscrapers.”

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

by 6 Comments

Thrillers aren’t usually my genre. Is that why When No One Is Watching is good but not great for me? Possibly. But we read out of our comfort zones on purpose so that maybe the next one is better, or that we’re more ready for it. This is another book that hopped to the front of the to read line based on this year’s Read Harder Challenge which has a task specifically for reading a political thriller by a marginalized author and this fits the […]

“some perfect and unexplainable force of love”

Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan

by Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo Square: Time I mentioned my summer of Irish fiction to my former mentor, and after recommending Dorothy Macardle to him, he enthusiastically recommended Donal Ryan, and especially his newest book, Strange Flowers, to me. Turns out one of the libraries where I hold a card had a digital copy available, so I checked it out (and ordered two of his previous novels) and got to work. Y’all, it was a good recommendation. The novel unfolds in distinct parts, each named for a book of […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo