Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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1066 and All That. A Memorable History of England, Comprising all the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates by W. C. Sellar

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cbr17 bingo School A real oddball of a book!  Basically, it is a photocopy of a previously existing library book, (dated 1930) including a copy of check out card and index card (remember card catalogues?).  The back blurb states: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.  Within the United States, you […]

It’s a Long and Winding Road

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

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cbr17bingo Diaspora The post WWII years in China were tumultuous times.  The Japanese, who had invaded and occupied a good deal of China, were leaving, but left in their stead a split China.  There was the nationalist government, supported by the Allies (think Chiang Kai-shek), many of whom ended up retreating to Taiwan.  Meanwhile Mao Zedong further expanded his alternative Communist regime.  And caught in the middle of all this were people just trying to live their lives, such as Suchi and Haiwen. The two […]

What? He Quit?

The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron

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cbr17bingo Free Meeting up with our old friend Mike Bowditch, game warden, it turns out that he is no longer a game warden!  Except for one of his first supervisors, Sgt. Kathy Frost, none of the rest of the folks he’s worked for have been too keen on him.  There is that odd predicament concerning the number of murdered people that seem to turn up in his vicinity.  He had been sent to the hinterlands of Maine for awhile now, but can finally take a […]

I Knew I’d Seen This Movie Before!

The Skin of Dreams by Raymond Queneau

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cbr17bingo  Play Written in 1944 by French surrealist author Queneau, this is the story of a man, Jacques, who lives in, as the cover blurb says, waking dreams.  He seamlessly transitions from chatting with his friends to imagining himself in a certain situation, and then back to everyday life.  I was about a quarter of the way through when I realized that I had seen this movie before.  And sure enough, in the afterword, the author reveals that he was highly influenced by the James […]

A Whole New World – At Least to Me

A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

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cbr17bingo TBR This was fascinating, a murder mystery set in a time and place that was unfamiliar to me.  In the early 1950s, South Africa had just entered into its apartheid era.  What had been previously informal, now became rigidly structured by law.  The population was strictly divided between the whites (original Dutch settlers and the mostly English settlers that followed – two distinct groups), the native Africans, and the colored population (for the most part settlers from India and anyone who was of a […]

As It Says on the Tin, a Novel in A Flat

Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer

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cbr17bingo Green Now I’m not even gonna pretend to understand the world of semi-rent controlled rental property, not to mention rampant gentrification, of the 1990s New York.  Seems like a product of an endless supply of need and a limited amount of acreage on which to build. Be that as it may, this is the story of a man (jazz musician) and his beloved dog Herbie Mann, a formerly abused mutt saved from an animal shelter death sentence.  They have lived in an apartment in […]



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