Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ghost Hunt Turns Into Murder Investigation

Death At the Manor by Katherine Schellman

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After seeing Captain Hartley off to his ship, Lily heads off to the country to stay with her aunt, traveling with Ofelia and her husband.  They quickly get pulled into the mystery of a local haunting with Ofelia wanting to see if they can prove if a ghost actually exists.  However, they’ve barely arrived at the manor experiencing the haunting when the matriarch of the family is found dead in her room, seemingly scared to death.  The family is convinced it’s the ghost while Lily […]

CBR15 Bingo: Sex (Bingo AND Cannonball)

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

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CBR15 Bingo: Sex (the protagonist is a god-touched masochist courtesan spy) Kushiel’s Dart is the first novel in the Kushiel’s Legacy series, which came to number six books in total. Jacqueline Carey also wrote an additional trilogy in her Terre D’Ange universe, and over the course of all of her books, pretty much explored every continent in her alternate-history fantasy world. This first book is set in an alternate historical version of Europe, set at about Renaissance times, or somewhat earlier, although the descriptions of […]

CBR15 Bingo: Queer Lives (Bingo)

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

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CBR15 Bingo: Queer Lives In July, the Forever Young Adult Reading Challenge prompt was Banned Books. Since All Boys Aren’t Blue was the second most banned book in America during the 2021-2022 school year, only beaten by Gender Queer, and I’d had the book on my digital bookshelf for a while, it felt like a suitable book to choose. This book was also one of the book club selections last year for the Cannonball book club, when we did banned books (this year we did […]

CBR15 Bingo: North America

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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CBR15 Bingo: North America I’ve been hearing about this book since it came out. So many people I know on the internet and whose opinions I trust have read, reviewed and absolutely loved it. So I feel bad only rating it four stars, but for all that that the story and the characters appealed to me, there was something that kept making me prioritise other things over listening more to the audio book, and I never really fully emotionally connected with this one. There are […]

“Food was how my mother expressed her love.”

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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I’d seen Crying in H Mart (2021) by Michelle Zauner on Barack Obama’s Recommended Reading List as well as NPR’s Best Books, but it never really called to me. My husband read it last year, but he was very vague on what it was about: he said it was a woman feeling lost about her life (or something). So that didn’t really make me want to read it either. But I never forgot it, and when I needed a book about Asia for Bingo, I thought it just […]

Have a banana, Hannah!

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel

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CBR15 BINGO: Edibles, because it’s about bananas BINGO: In the Wild, Violence, Guide, Asia & Oceania, Edibles The 19-page introduction to Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World is quite interesting. If you know nothing about bananas other than that they are a tasty and easily portable treat (and really, why would you?), you’ll learn some fascinating facts in these introductory pages. First, the banana most widely sold today, and the single most popular variety of fruit in the world, is the […]



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