Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I've been doing this since 2015, and though I'm not going to read a hundred books a year, I plan on doing this for the foreseeable future. I also maintain the Cannonball Read database, and make infrequent updates on our reading habits. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ingres77's Quick Questions interview.)

ingres77's Reviews:

Who had Roger Rabbit as my most entertaining book of the year?

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf

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I really enjoyed this movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was 7 – so I was prime Roger Rabbit age. It was a….different time. That movie was huge. It was maybe the first time I was aware of movies as blockbusters. It was huge, and then I didn’t think about the movie for about a decade. In the mid-90s, I remember Who Framed Roger Rabbit? being in the TV Guide. It was given 5 stars, and I remember being shocked […]

I am Joe’s transgressive angst

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

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It was the Fall of 1999 and I was a junior in high school. I’d stayed after school for some reason, was waiting to get picked up by my mom, and was sitting outside on the concourse in front of the school cafeteria – probably reading a book – when a student walked up to me. I didn’t know the guy, but he started talking about a movie that just came out called “Fight Club”. He said it was amazing, and proceeded to describe the […]

I don’t know if you’ve heard of this Jane Austen person, but she’s pretty good. She’s going places.

Persuasion by Jane Austin

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At the risk of sounding melodramatic, there is a feeling that I love, but don’t get to experience that often. It’s a kind of melancholic beauty, piercing in its intensity, with a haunted mien and nebulous structure that can be hard to pin down. It is the beauty of autumn rain, dark chocolate, and sad songs. The beauty of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars. The beauty of Joy Williams singing “Don’t Let Me Down”. The beauty of unrequited love, and […]

A tough read that gives a lot of attention to struggles with mental health

Truth of the Divine by Lindsey Ellis

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For what was perhaps the first time in my life, I read a book with a trigger warning that I actually benefited from. I didn’t know, at the time, that I was going to be grateful for the warning, but it helped prepare me for the in-depth exploration of trauma and mental illness that followed. So this review, too, has a trigger warning. Self-harm and suicidal ideation feature prominently in this review, because they both feature prominently in the novel. Through some gift of fortune […]

Trigger warning. Also, spoilers.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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I don’t consider myself particularly well-read. I’ve never read Faulkner. Only read The Great Gatsby last year (or the year before, I don’t remember). I’ve read Hemingway once, and didn’t particularly like The Old Man and the Sea. I’ve never read Austen, or Waugh, or Virginia Woolf, or Pynchon, or countless other important literary figures. But I’ve long flirted with the idea of being comfortable with books enjoyed by well-educated people with posh British accents who casually insert French into everyday conversation. (For the record, […]

I have nothing new to say about an 85 year old book, unsurprisingly.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck grew up in the first decade of the 20th century on some of the most fertile soil in the world, and as a teenager he spent his summers working on nearby ranches. More than 20 years later, he used these experiences to inform the story that would become this novella. Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, fleeing one farm and looking for work at another. Lennie is large, strong, and mentally disabled and George is […]



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