Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Horny Dragon Book

Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

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I am very fond of Kit Rocha’s books. When asked what they wanted readers to get out of their books, the two authors who make up Kit Rocha, Donna Herren and Bree Bridges, said hope and joy. I think they deliver. I found them in 2019, and I genuinely do not know how I would have made it through the last few years without the chaotic, supportive, and fiery communities they have built. Their new series, Bound to Fire and Steel, is pure romantasy (fantasy+romance). […]

Just a wholesome good time. And chickens.

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

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Skunk and Badger By Amy Timberlake   This was the book I chose as a “read aloud book club” for summer reading. I advertised it as a nice way to chill out, maybe with the family, and basically listen to a live audiobook via Zoom.  I basically had one family, with some of their friends popping in for a bit of the second session.  I picked it first for the length, because I could read the whole thing in a few sessions.  Then the theme […]

Agatha Christie-esque seaside mystery

Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

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Its 1932 and Amory Ames is having marriage troubles. Her playboy husband, Milo, has recently returned to their English country home from a trip to Italy and the rumours of his illicit adventures there have preceded him. When Amory’s old flame, Gil Trent, unexpectedly asks her to accompany him on a trip to the seaside for a week, Amory has the perfect excuse to give Milo a taste of his own medicine. Gil’s kid sister, Emmeline, has taken up with a suspiciously charming young man, […]

“Haven’t you noticed, American? I AM trouble.” (Double Bingo)

Bombshell by Sarah Maclean

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3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: New series Official book description: After years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom…and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend’s beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. If you ask him, […]

playing catch-up while playing bingo!

Kink: Stories by R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

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Hey y’all- long time, no read! I took some time off from reviewing while on vacation, then let vacation mind take over all of my non-work mind and found myself in a reviewing hole. Then, work swallowed me whole. I started writing this on August 9th. Just finishing it now on the 29th-Cait Also, I haven’t been reading reviews here either, so be prepared for a wave of comments coming your way! Good news: I truly enjoyed all seven of these books. One was a […]

A Memory called Empire – Arkady Martine (2019)

A Memory called Empire by Arkady Martine

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CBR13Bingo – New Series You’d have to tell me if my perception of this book is correct, but I read this book as an outsider looking into human culture as an empire and seeing it from this perspective. It’s the future, and it’s maybe a future version of earth or a future of humanity. We are following a new ambassador making her way to the head of this empire from her native Lsel station, a non-planetary, science-heavy but small civilization. This new arrival loves the […]



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