Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Drug Store Showdown

The Time Has Come by Will Leitch

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It’s been a wild ride watching Will Leitch grow as a writer. I’ve been reading him since his early Deadspin days and followed the growth of his career. Like a lot of writers who had success young, he had a choice of whether or not to be trapped forever in the enjoyable-but-inevitably-forgettable writing mindset of stale beer and bong hits. Or he could grow and find new avenues. And found them, he did as he moved on to popular magazines, podcasting, a TV show (cut […]

Panic! At the Book Show

I Didn't Do It by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

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I don’t have any perspective of being a published writer but as an aspiring one, I know all writers have an ego. You kind of have to; I mean, it takes a certain level of arrogance to think people are going to pay their hard-earned money to read what comes out of your brain. Hours, days of their lives they’re never gonna get back they’re willingly going to give you money for this experience. So yeah, you have to have one. However, I just attended […]

Breuckelen

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

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I rarely read the afterward in an author’s book. Usually it’s because I’m too excited to get started on the next book to really care. But I enjoyed Pineapple Street so much, I raced to the afterward because I wanted to see what inspired her to write the book. Reading it amused me because I think the book she produced was one her brain wrote as opposed to the one her heart thought she was writing. And that’s perfectly fine. According to Jackson, she was inspired by […]

Drugs and War

Box Nine by Jack O'Connell

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Life has been a lot lately — nothing too bad, just new developments — and it’s affected my reading. Usually, I knock out around 10-12 books a month. This month, I’ll get to maybe 7 if I’m lucky. Hopefully, I’m back on the horse by next month when my library’s summer reading bingos begin. At any rate, part of why I read so fast is not just retention but also so I can keep up with the momentum of a story. When I don’t have […]

To The Victors Go

Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace

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What often grates me about David Peace’s endless style of repetition works here. Whereas his Red Riding Quartet was full of a bunch of self-loathing white policemen and journalists who couldn’t deal in a world their fathers had built, Tokyo Year Zero has a more compelling lead detective: a man who may or may not have committed a war crime in China now operating as a police officer in the first year of Allied occupation in Tokyo. His nation has lost and must now deal with […]

April 2023 Leftovers

Lady Boss by Jackie Collins

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Flux by Jinwoo Choo

The Cutie by Donald Westlake

The Boy with the Faster Brain by Peter Shankman

The Widening Gyre by Robert B. Parker

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Happy spring! Lady Boss** So after two books and almost 2k pages of enough internalized misogyny to make Phyllis Schlafly blush, with stories chock full of men and women who will literally hump anyone and anything, Jackie Collins suddenly decides to make Lucky purchase a movie studio…in order to get rid of casting couches and male dominance in favor of female-driven movies that are less horny. What? Whatever. I’ll still keep reading this garbage. The Hunting Party*** I was prepared to write about this being […]



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