Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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CBR 16 Bingo – Games: This whole series is centered around games and puzzles. Also it’s in the title. Avery is simply living her life, trying to make it through high school, get a scholarship, and get out when she receives a mysterious invitation to the reading of the will of billionaire Tobias Hawthorne. He leaves her the majority of his inheritance, even though she doesn’t know who she is and has never met the man in her life. To receive this inheritance, Avery has […]

“For that brief period when everything ugly is covered under the sparkle of something so new, the world almost feels like it’s living up to its potential.”

The Project by Courtney Summers

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CBR 16 Bingo – Cult: The main character’s sister joined a cult, and the main character is trying to reconnect with said sister. Lo Denham and her sister Bea were close, until their parents died in a car accident and Bea left to join a mysterious cult called The Unity Project. Now, 6 years later, Lo has been trying for years to reconnect with her sister, unsuccessfully, until she gets the perfect opportunity. However, it is clear that Bea doesn’t want to be found, so […]

Great life advice about lighting things on fire

The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands

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CBR 16 Bingo – Disco (Free) “Tom raised his eyebrows. ‘Master Benedict keeps cannon fuse?’ ‘We use it to light things from far away,’ I said. ‘You know,’ Tom said, ‘things you have to light from far away probably shouldn’t be lit at all.’” I read this book a few years ago, and really enjoyed it then. I decided to reread it this year in an effort to reread all 5 books I had already read before reading the 6th which came out in 2023 […]

Don’t Bring Helen! (Or Please Do)

The Expectant Detectives by Kat Ailes

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CBR16 Bingo: Games – Alice and her friends take up the murder investigation as diversion more than anything else while waiting to give birth, though things aren’t all fun and games for very long. Alice and her partner Joe move to the countryside hoping to raise their soon-to-be born son in a peaceful environment, but that peace is shattered when a local store owner is found murdered during the course of an eventful antenatal class. I’ve read plenty of flavors of cozy mystery, but a […]

If Agatha Christie wrote The Wind in the Willows

Shady Hollow by Juneau Black

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CBR 16 Bingo – Détante: The town was peaceful, but that state of peace was clearly fragile, and it was disturbed. In the small town of Shady Hollow woodland creatures live in harmony and peace. That is until Otto Stump, an old toad, is killed. The town reporter, Vera Vixen, who has been looking for a way to rise in the ranks in the town paper plans to write about the case and do some investigative work of her own. When she discovers that the […]

Honestly incredible… I’m at a loss for words.

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

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CBR 16 Bingo – Rage: …It’s in the title. No explanation required. This book, told through 3 perspectives, one from the past and 2 in the present. In the past, in Lahore, Pakistan, Misbah is newly married to Tofiq in an arranged marriage. They end up coming to the United States hoping for a new start and end up opening the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel. In the present, Salahudin (Misbah’s son, nicknamed Sal) and his best friend Noor were so close they were like family, […]



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