Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Beautiful book whether you’re a baking newbie or a pro

What’s For Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People by Claire Saffitz

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Cbr15bingo Guide, Bingo BLACKOUT Last year I reviewed Claire Saffitz’s first cookbook Dessert Person, giving it two thumbs up. Her second collection, What’s For Dessert, is another great collection of recipes organized in a way that is super helpful to the baker, whether novice or pro. As I pointed out in that earlier review, I am not exactly handy in the kitchen but I do like baking. The biggest obstacle I run in to is that half of my household is gluten/casein/soy free, which can […]

If Mr. Darcy was a Vampire

My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine

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Cassie is a starving artist. She juggles 2 jobs just to barely make ends meet, so when she sees an ad for a huge apartment with crazy-cheap rent, she jumps at the opportunity, even if she is extremely suspicious of the deal. She should be. Turns out her roommate is a 300-year-old vampire who has just woken up from a 100-year hibernation and he is completely clueless about the modern world. Frederick J. Fitzwilliam dresses like an Austen character and he has no idea how […]

…a great experience in a park typically doesn’t happen in a few minutes.

Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share

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CBR15 BINGO (Guide square: all about the NPS and the jags that give them bad reviews on Yelp.) BINGO! Hold Steady to Nostalgia BINGO! In the Wild to Edibles I think I first found @subparparks on Instagram during the pandemic. I can’t remember the first post that I saw, but I laughed out loud at the ridiculousness of some people. Amber Share’s account blends her love of lettering and illustration with her love of the national parks in the U.S. After reading a one-star Yelp […]

Food at once grounded me and took me to other places. It comforted me and challenged me. It was part of the fabric that made up my creative self and my domestic self. It allowed me to express my love for the people I love and make connections with new people I might come to love.”

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

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CBR Bingo – Edibles Very important disclaimer: this book will make you absolutely ravenous for pasta. One part memoir, one part cookbook, Tucci takes us back and forth through his life via his tastebuds growing up in an idyllic childhood as the child of Italian-Americans in Northern New York. I’ve always been charmed by Tucci, my favorite performance of his is as one-half of my chosen fictional parenting duo of all time, along with Patricia Clarkson in “Easy A.” He has such an affable presence […]

“Remember. There will be other days. And there will be other feelings.”

The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

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CBR Bingo – Europe In the wake of a surprising lay off I was looking for something to lift my spirits and came across this little tome, from the English author of “The Midnight Library.” That book was an examination of a squandered life as Nora has decided she has nothing left to live for. After taking the matter into her own hands, instead of finding herself faced with nothingness, she finds herself in the titular Midnight Library which is filled with volumes of books […]

“You want to know if I’m as evil as everyone says I am. The answer is no. And yes.”

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

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CBR Bingo – History I don’t read a lot of horror but I do enjoy it from time to time; however, I’m jumpy by nature so I’ve got to be careful with what I read lest I freak myself out and make it even easier for my teen to achieve a satisfying jump scare. I wanted something good and juicy for October so asked friends who are big scary book fiends and they DELIVERED. This is my first Sager but likely not my last as […]



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