Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It could be witches! Some evil witches!

Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman

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CBR Bingo: Red I recently picked up Death on the Caldera, the debut novel by Emily Paxman, because the author is local to me and my bookstore had signed copies. I didn’t know much about it going in, but the cover was intriguing (don’t judge me, trains are cool, okay). Set in a world where the landscape is dominated by a volcano, and the ground around the eruption has certain magical properties, this is essentially a murder mystery after a train crash. The primary characters […]

Cannonball Read 17 Bingo: The First Check-in

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Welcome to the first monthly check-in for the Cannonball Read 17 Book Bingo Reading Challenge. The card, square descriptions, and rules can be found here. First, thank you for being here!!! Second – check your tags! the tag should be cbr17bingo with no spaces. I’ll clean up the other tags I’ve found this week. Third – check my math. I think what we’ve all learned in the past seven years of bingo is that I don’t math so good. Fourth – Y’all are amazing. BlackRaven […]

We’re all just animals after all

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

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Bingo Square: Rec’d (Colormeloverly raved about this novel repeatedly last year on IG) Definitely not my usual kind of novel nowadays – I don’t venture into literary fiction all too often anymore but if they were all like this, I might. Shortly after their wedding, Lewis notices some odd changes in his body, and after consultation, he is diagnosed with an animal mutation: he is transforming into a great white shark, and has less than a year before his transformation will be complete and he […]

Not all men, but certainly a lot of them. Especially rich, white ones.

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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4.5 stars Buzzwords Cover Challenge 25: Pattern CBR17 Bingo: Red (A book with a red cover) Official plot summary: In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long […]

A Great Conclusion to the Duology

The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem

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cbr17bingo – purple This was so good! I really liked The Jasad Heir, but I didn’t love it, and I recall thinking some of the writing was a bit awkward at times. But this one? I loved this one. It took some getting used to because it incorporates more POVs than the first book, and even that I ended up liking more than I expected, especially the chapters from Sefa’s perspective. The Jasad Crown picks up very soon after where The Jasad Heir left off. Arin is preparing for […]

We Sold Our Souls by Grady HendrixWe

We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix

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“We Sold Our Souls” follows Kris Pulaski. Kris is 47 and after a hellish night working at a motel realizes that her life has a hole in it that she never got back after her band Dürt Würk broke up in the 90s. Kris starts see billboards and ads that her former bandmate Terry is about to put on an epic show. And this makes Kris wonder what happened all of those years ago and what caused her band that was about to make it […]



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