Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR17
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • Suggest a Review
    • 2025 Registration
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

Lyrical historical coming of age fiction

Red Dove, Listen to the Wind by Sonia Antaki

October 27, 2019 by J Leave a Comment

Thirteen year old Red Dove lives in interesting times for the Lakota people. Shortly after the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Battle of Little Big Horn), her people have fallen on hard times. Food has become scarce, and the Lakota have learned that they cannot trust the people who have settled on their lands to live peacefully. In a moment of weakness, Red Dove’s mother agrees to send her children to a local Catholic school, hoping that the children will at least find regular meals […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: middle grade, middle grade fiction, NetGalley, Own voices, Sonia Antaki

J's CBR11 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: middle grade, middle grade fiction, NetGalley, Own voices, Sonia Antaki ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

I learned something when I didn’t expect to!

Dare to Disappoint by Özge Samanci

October 16, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

I was browsing the high school graphic novel section where I substitute, looking for something to read during a prep period, when I stumbled upon this.  I had never heard of it before, but the entire section had some good stuff in it, so I picked it up. It looked cute and clever, so I started reading it.  I didn’t expect to learn things! This is a graphic memoir, taking place in the early ‘80s in Turkey.  Özge is about 10 years older than me, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: #memoir, cbr11bingo, Graphic Novel, Own voices, Özge Samanci

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:55 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: #memoir, cbr11bingo, Graphic Novel, Own voices, Özge Samanci ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

Extremely solid second book; I liked it better than the first. #CBRBingo – Own Voices

The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2) by Helen Hoang

September 10, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

I liked this quite a bit, maybe even more than the first one. It still featured miscommunication as one of the central conflicts, but with one of the characters being autistic, and the other being from another country, I feel like here it’s actually justified, and it didn’t really bother me. (It still bothered me a little in The Kiss Quotient, even though Stella was on the spectrum as well. Also, that book featured a couple of other tropes that didn’t sit well with me, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: cbr11bingo, contemporary, Helen Hoang, narfna, neurodiversity, Own voices, read harder challenge 2019, Romance, The Bride Test, The Kiss Quotient

narfna's CBR11 Review No:74 · Genres: Romance · Tags: cbr11bingo, contemporary, Helen Hoang, narfna, neurodiversity, Own voices, read harder challenge 2019, Romance, The Bride Test, The Kiss Quotient ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

It Is the Innocence Which Constitutes the Crime

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

September 2, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

This book consists of two letters, one that is addressed to Baldwin’s nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a longer one that he calls ‘A Letter from a Region in My Mind’. They concern themselves with the history and the state of race relations in the US in the 1960s, both from a very personal and a more general perspective. I put this on my TBR when I read an article in my local newspaper earlier this year, in which they […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, James Baldwin, Own voices

blauracke's CBR11 Review No:46 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, James Baldwin, Own voices ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

August 25, 2019 by KimMiE" 1 Comment

CBR11bingo: Own Voices I struggled for quite some time trying to decide what to read for CBR11 Bingo’s center square. I’m so glad that I finally landed on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, not just because it’s a book I definitely should have read by now, but because it’s moving and beautiful and painful. I expected The Bluest Eye to be powerful; I didn’t expect it to be poetic. This novel tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl growing up in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #ownvoices, african american history, African American literature, cbr11bingo, KimMiE", Own voices, Toni Morrison

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #ownvoices, african american history, African American literature, cbr11bingo, KimMiE", Own voices, Toni Morrison ·
Rating:
· 1 Comment

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read.” (CBR11 Bingo)

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

August 12, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I don’t know if I knew what to expect when I decided to read The Bone People. I knew it had won the Booker Prize, which isn’t always a great indicator if I’m going to enjoy a book or not, and that it was an Own Voices book by a New Zealand author. Keri Hulme spent over a decade crafting a story of people of Maori heritage in the part of the country she still lives in, and she was steadfast in writing the novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, keri hulme, Own voices, read harder challenge, read women, the bone people

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, keri hulme, Own voices, read harder challenge, read women, the bone people ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments
  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Next Page »


Recent Comments

  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission: Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2025 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in