I’m happy to announce our third CBR9 donation to The American Cancer Society for Cannonball Read 9, in the amount of $100! Thanks to another generous donor, all donations through today were matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000. So our donation really counted for $200! That brings our total for the year so far to $500. Find out what else you can do to help our mission to fight cancer.
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: scootsa1000
How many times have you participated in CBR? Has it changed the way you read? This is my 7th CBR. I started on a whim in CBR3, just to see if I could actually read 52 in a year. And as we all know, the reading is easy, it’s the writing that’s hard! And absolutely, it has changed the way I read. Now I read books that I never would have even considered pre-Cannonball (especially YA and Romance), and I take note of certain passages […]
Edna Ferber, 20th Century Feminist Novelist
It’s time to take a new look at an author who wrote most of her work nearly 100 years ago! Edna Ferber won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925 for her novel So Big. She also penned the book that’s the basis of the musical Showboat and two books made in to successful movies, Giant and Cimarron. However, very few modern readers know her name. All of her stories deal with racial tension and gender bias, topics rarely addressed so openly in her day but certainly […]
Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: Caitlin_D
How many times have you participated in CBR? Has it changed the way you read? This is my fourth round of CBR. I started with CBR6 at my sister, badkittyuno’s, suggestion. I didn’t take it terribly seriously. I read about the same as I would have every other year only now I would write reviews for what I read. Then last year I made the mistake of requesting the audio version of a book when placing a hold at the library instead of the hard […]