Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

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One of the weirdest things that’s happened to me as an adult is that I’ve learned how fluid “history” can be. Growing up, my understanding of the concept of history was that smart people figured out what happened, and they told us, and that was it. In college books like Lies My Teacher Told Me and A People’s History of the United States opened up my thinking to the idea that any narrative (historical or otherwise) comes from a point of view and has a […]

Last Evenings on Earth

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

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“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.” Last Evenings on Earth is a dreamlike collection of 14 short stories by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. I write “middling” with affection; many of the stories in this collection are semi-autobiographical in spirit if not fact and the author focuses on what it’s like to be a writer of low notoriety. Many of the stories include petty jealousies and insecurities amongst artists in social […]

Grumpy Sunshine Literary Summer

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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My wife reads around 100 books a year. At the end of each year, she picks five or 10 of those for me to read. They’re usually some of my favorites each year – it’s almost like she knows me.) One of her choices for me this year was Emily Henry’s Beach Read, which was a Book of the Month Club choice and would probably be a great movie with the right cast. It’s a “grumpy sunshine”-styled rom-com, although it doesn’t fit squarely in the […]

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

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Years ago, I mentioned in the CBR comments that I was interested in learning more about the beauty of math, but that I was awful at math.  Some benevolent commentator told me that Charles Seife’s Zero was a great book about the beauty of math for a lay person. I can’t remember the person who told me that, but I’m appreciative of the recommendation. After years of sitting on my digital shelf, late last year this piece of niche non-fic finally got its time in […]

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“You lived; you will always have lived. Death does not erase your life…If only time could be seen whole.”

Time Travel: A History by James Gleick

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Good, where to start? The reader has parts from the beginning, middle, and end of the book that stand out; out of order out of….TIME! Time Travel is a curiosity of a non-fiction book. It’s almost literary in in its non-fiction meanderings. Explore science fiction, pop culture, physics, psychology, religion, cyberpunk, social media. It’s all here as Gleick tries to make sense of what we mean we talk about time and time travel. Over and over (a time loop) he quotes various experts in philosophy, […]

“The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.”

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

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Even though I’m a big ol’ nerd, I have never been interested in The Wheel of Time series until recently. The new Wheel of Time show on Amazon Prime did it (all hail Rosamund Pike). My family watched it together, and once season one ended I picked up the first book of the very long series. So, I’m coming at this review from the show first and then the books. My review of the show is that it’s not for me. I’m not really sure […]



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