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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

Featured Reviews

finnyfinfinn's CBR18 Review #10:

Here There Be Dragons (it’s Steve)
The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst

Jen K's CBR18 Review #37:

Lectures, Research Papers and Romance
An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister

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Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake

Debcapsfan's CBR18 Review #4:

Blah Blah Blah Girl Power
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake

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Miss Jane Marple

Chris's CBR18 Review #2:

Review: The Life and times of Miss Marple by Anne Hart
The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple by Anne Hart

What is Cannonball Read?

Cannonball Read (CBR) is an annual, memorial reading challenge that challenges participants to read and review 52 (or 26 or 13) books in a calendar year. We donate profits to the American Cancer Society in memory of AlabamaPink, our fierce warrior queen, in the fight against cancer. Read More »

CBR Diversion – Bingo – “One”

July 1, 2026 by jomidi 18 Comments

The Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge is a beloved annual tradition. You can get the complete information on this year's Bingo here. This year I'd like to help with your bingo board by providing assistance in finding books to meet a particular bingo circle. Where better to begin than with … [Read more]

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: #CBRDiversions, CBR Diversions, cbr18bingo, CBRDiversion ·
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Hawthorne & Horowitz go to the movies (sort of)

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

July 29, 2026 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR18 BINGO: And, because this is the 6th book in the Hawthorne & Horowitz series Anthony Horowitz is back with another Hawthorne mystery, and the premise this time is that his novel The Word is Murder is being turned into a movie! As you can imagine, this novel has fun skewering the movie … [Read more]

KimMiE"'s CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Anthony Horowitz, cbr18, cbr18bingo, Hawthorne and Horowitz, KimMiE", metafiction, mystery ·
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I don’t want it to be over

Blood of Dragons: Volume Four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb

July 29, 2026 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr18bingo Versus Blood of Dragons is the thrilling conclusion to The Rain Wilds Chronicles featuring the showdowns readers have been waiting for: men versus dragons, old ways versus new, and that nasty, greedy abuser Hest versus Alise and Sedric.  The traders of Bingtown and the people of the … [Read more]

ElCicco's CBR18 Review No:35 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, blood of dragons, cbr18, cbr18bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, realm of the elderlings, robin hobb, The Rain Wilds Chronicles ·
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a book cover that looks like a tarot card, showing a woman in a red dress looking at a phone walking through a landscape of fire and ice.

“We are burning and we are falling / and we are stuck”

New Arcana by Jessica Traynor

July 29, 2026 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR 18 Bingo: FRIENDS Back in mid-March, I was like, "Life is leveling out! I can write reviews again!" And then my beloved 16-year-old dog, not two weeks later, passed away. And I did not write any reviews, obviously. I'm not going to tempt the fates again by suggesting life is leveling out. … [Read more]

tiny_bookbot's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: cbr18bingo, Jessica Traynor ·
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Dear Lord, This Was Awful, But Dammit it Stuck the Landing

Hide and Seek by James Patterson

July 29, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: Success. The two main characters are huge successes in their fields. Hide and Seek by James Patterson is terrible by any measure. It’s poorly written (and this is when Patterson was writing his own stuff I believe and not pairing up with ex presidents and a team of ghost writers). Its … [Read more]

esmemoria's CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr18bingo, James Patterson ·
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book cover for "every Tom Dick & Harry" by Elinor Lipman -- posterized art of men lining up outside a multistory mansion

Tee hee a brothel how scandale

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry by Elinor Lipman

July 29, 2026 by auntadadoom Leave a Comment

So the premise is, our heroine takes over an estate sale business when her parents retire, and then oo la la a potential client turns out to be a brothel, should she take the gig? The naughtiness of the very thought! Frissons! Palpitations! This is nominally a rom com and kinda gestures towards … [Read more]

auntadadoom's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Mystery, Romance · Tags: cbr18bingo, elinor Lipman ·
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Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb

July 29, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

Not a bad installment to the "In Death" series. This honestly gets four stars since there was less what I call aggravations in this one. Plus, this one had a call back to a previous book, Innocent in Death. There are some loose ends in this long running series, so it was nice to get something nice … [Read more]

Classic's CBR18 Review No:81 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: cbr18bingo, In Death #62, J.D. Robb, Stolen in Death ·
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Recent Comments

  • BlackRaven
    on I am Patient 6
    Even if I could run, I don't .... so there is that.... but yes, no AC?
  • auntadadoom
    on I loved this book
    This sounds so lovely! My kid randomly picked "Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story" on Disney Plus the other...
  • tamaranth
    on Among the Stars
    I think you may have misunderstood the book. Caroline was his sister, not his wife.
  • Tracy
    on I loved this book
    Me, too! Glad I'm not the only one who started to tear up at that. But then again, I used...
  • esmemoria
    on I loved this book
    This book sounds wonderful and very moving.
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