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Featured Reviews

wicherwill's CBR18 Review #17:

very very belated ARC review :(
Pride & Provocateur: A Modern Pride and Prejudice Variation in Dildo, Newfoundland by Melissa Yi

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jeverett15's CBR18 Review #56:

It’s A Cookbook
The Wide, Wide Sea by Hampton Sides

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Dungeons and Drama

Dome'Loki's CBR18 Review #10:

I feel like these were written for a younger version of me
Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
Dating and Dragons by Kristy Boyce
Rolls and Rivalries by Kristy Boyce

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Fiat.Luxury's CBR18 Review #11:

A harrowing journey in 93 pages.
Happening by Annie Ernaux

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 – “Craft”

August 15, 2026 by jomidi 21 Comments

Hope you are enjoying this year's Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle "Craft". Craft – boats; knitting; a character makes something; this book is a good example (or bad example) … [Read more]

Genres: News from MsWas · Tags: #cbrbingo, #CBRDiversions, CBR Diversions, CBRDiversion ·
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Cover of muppets in moscow by Natasha Lance Rogoff

Russians created Pushkin, Rachmaninoff, and Petrushka the homicidal puppet. What could Sesame Street teach them?

Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia by Natasha Lance Rogoff

August 27, 2026 by vega-table Leave a Comment

CBR18 Bingo - Middle: Between 1st world problems and 3rd world problems, there is Sesame Street. I mean, there are 2nd world problems. This book is about Russia’s problems after the collapse of the 2nd world and Sesame Street, with the author in the middle of the storm. Muppets in Moscow: The … [Read more]

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:39 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr18bingo, Natasha Lance Rogoff, Russia ·
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CBR BINGO: Middle—”How much shower stuff does he think one woman needs for a month? It’s like how NASA tried to send Sally Ride to space for one week with a hundred tampons ‘just in case’.”

Happy Medium by Sarah Adler

August 27, 2026 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was fine! I waited too long to read it. I still liked most romances back in 2024 when it was published. This one follows Gretchen, a fake medium who has a Rule that she will only take money to lie to people about their dead relatives if she can leave them better than she found them. Her most … [Read more]

narfna's CBR18 Review No:24 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Contemporary Romance, Happy Medium, m/f, Romance, Sarah Adler, supernatural ·
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CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”

A Trade of Blood (Shadow of the Leviathan, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

August 27, 2026 by narfna Leave a Comment

Robert Jackson Bennett is on a mission to document the entirety of his own made-up world by creating unsettling, weird, fantastical murders that letting him explore it, and I am here for it. This time we're exploring the complicated and fraught world of agriculture and how it intersects with … [Read more]

narfna's CBR18 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, A Trade of Blood, Ana and Din Mysteries, bisexual character, cbr18bingo, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, Robert Jackson Bennett, Shadow of the Leviathan, sporror ·
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Reclaiming a city from past memories

The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn

August 26, 2026 by Jen K 2 Comments

Bingo Square: Repair (the best man tasks Layla with fixing things when the bride gets cold feet) Quote: Being an even moderately aware adult in the twenty-first century had taught Layla that pretty much every billionaire belonged in prison, or at the very least kept in some kind of island … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR18 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr18bingo, Contemporary Romance, Kate Clayborn ·
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“There’s no point in denying it. Anger is my faithful companion.”

After We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton

August 26, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR18 Bingo: Justice - Beatriz spends the whole novel searching for justice for the death of her brother and her family's exile from Cuba after the rise of Fidel Castro. Though Beatriz and her family have found safety in Palm Beach after fleeing from Cuba, she has not found peace, and rages about … [Read more]

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 1960s, cbr18bingo, Chanel Cleeton, Cuba, espionage, historical fiction, Romance, United States ·
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Killing time between planes

Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin

August 26, 2026 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Or (this collection explores alternate planes of existence and inter-dimensional travel) Quotes: “Although his campaign had become increasingly outspoken against “godless” and “foreign” elements of Obtrian society, many Astasa voted for him. They wanted a strong leader, they … [Read more]

Jen K's CBR18 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: alternate dimensions, cbrbingo18, short fiction, ursula k le guin ·
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    Thank you!
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    on Reclaiming a city from past memories
    Happy Cannonball!
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    I used it for 'craft' because both the protagonists are writers (although Blair doesn't believe she can write). Blair is...
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    on A favorite that just gets better
    No! They're on my list, but I haven't gotten to them yet. I'll need to fix that. Thank you for...
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    I used Parade of Horribles for Joker since Carl is chaos personified in case people need other ideas for how...
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