Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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39 years old. New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Circling and Circling

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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In the near future, six astronauts (well, technically four astronauts and two cosmonauts) spend a day on the International Space Station orbiting the planet sixteen times. While they do so, a separate crew of astronauts prepare for the first moon landing in decades. Back on Earth, a massive superstorm is bearing down on the South Pacific, and the crew is tasked with documenting its progress from space. A spacewalk is conducted, scientific experiments involving lab mice and heart cells are monitored, and the crew does […]

Stand-Up Guy

Good Material by Dolly Alderton

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Andy Dawson is a British stand-up comedian of middling success and, he is increasingly worried, of middling talent. Years removed from a Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, he knows finds himself stuck to performing at second-tier comedy clubs and desperately looking for low-level corporate gigs while his contemporaries are making TV appearances and becoming famous. That, however, is not what’s troubling Andy most as the story begins. He’s just been dumped by his girlfriend of the last four years. Andy was stunned when […]

Two Households, Unalike in Dignity

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

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Howard Belsey is a white Englishman married to a Black American woman. He teaches art history at a fancy pants liberal arts college in Massachusetts and has been readying his Rembrandt book for publication for years with little progress. He and his wife, Kiki, have three children. Jerome, a recent convert to Christianity, is a student at Brown. His sister, Zora, is a self-serious academic type who takes after her father and is enrolled at the school were he teaches. Youngest child Levi is a […]

You Can Call Him Al

Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino

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I’m not a huge reader of celebrity memoirs, but when I saw Al Pacino’s was available on Spotify Premium, the idea of listening to him narrate his life appealed to me. I wouldn’t say Pacino is a particular favorite of mine, but he’s obviously been in some incredible movies over the years. Though celebrities vary widely in how perceptive they are about their own lives, one of the more interesting aspects of reading their own thoughts about their careers is that you get a sense […]

Nifty Fifty

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

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Baseball’s status as the national pastime has been called into question more and more over the last few decades, as its own popularity has declined and that of other sports have surpassed it, but there’s almost no question that baseball is the preferred sport among writers. Baseball, with its curious rhythms, obsession with mythology, and opportunities for heroism, seems to speak especially to those with love for a good story. No one loves a good baseball story as much as Joe Posnanski. He’s got a […]

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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Do you know anyone  who’s just obsessed with what they were like as a little kid? They can talk for hours about their elementary school teachers, their friends from the neighborhood, first crushes, friendship betrayals, every time their parents were unfair to them, how mean their siblings could be, etc? Aren’t they just exhausting? My Brilliant Friend is the first volume of Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, which followst two female friends throughout their entire lives. At the beginning, set in 2010, 60-something Elena Greco receives word […]

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