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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A Puncher’s Chance

Fat City by Leonard Gardner

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From most perspectives, Billy Tully and Ernie Munger would both be considered young men, but in their world of low-level professional boxing 18-year-old Ernie is a fresh face while 29-year-old Billy is a washed-up fighter barely hanging on. After a chance meeting at the Y, Billy convinces Ernie to go see his former trainer and try to make it in the fight game. Besides boxing, the only thing Billy and Ernie have in common is trouble with women. Billy has been miserably lonely since his […]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to read a book about Goodfellas

Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas by Glenn Kenny

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For an octogenarian, Martin Scorsese has a surprising talent for riling people on the internet. His passion for cinema is matched only by his forceful opinions about what exactly is cinema and what is not. His oft-stated belief that superhero movies like those of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are more akin to “carnival rides” than works of art has made him the enemy of some corners of the internet, while of course making him even more of a darling to the nebulous entity known as […]

A Change in the Weather

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

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From the outside the Barneses are a stereotypical Irish family. The father, Dickie, runs a car dealership and garage he took over from his father. The mother, Imelda, is a housewife still beautiful enough that strangers ask her if she’s a model. Daughter Cass is a bright student destined for university life in Dublin, while son PJ is a curious and rambunctious little boy. But, in parallel with the crashing economy, the Barneses are falling apart. Sales are down at the dealership, a problem exacerbated […]

Hot Cops and Robbers

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

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Jack Foley is a cool customer. Whether he’s robbing a bank or breaking out of prison, Foley doesn’t let anything get to him. Until he gets a look at U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco. When Sisco shows up at his Florida prison coincidentally just as he’s making his break, Foley and his friend Buddy wind up taking her along for the ride, albeit in the trunk of their car. Foley gets right there in the trunk with her, and the close quarters only make him more […]

Good Golly, Miss Holly

Holly by Stephen King

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You don’t know about Holly Gibney unless you’ve read about her in a few books by a man named Stephen King. Holly got her start as a minor character in Mr. Mercedes and grew into a more prominent role throughout the Bill Hodges trilogy. Since then she’s taken on supernatural forces in The Outsider and in the short story If it Bleeds, but Holly is the first novel where she is the main protagonist. King has made it clear how much he adores Holly and […]

Terrifying Faith

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor

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Frances Marion Tarwater, 14, has been raised by his great-uncle Mason. Frances was “born from a wreck” as his mother was injured in a car crash and lived just long enough to deliver her son. Originally, the boy was sent to live with his uncle Rayber, a schoolteacher. But Mason, a religious fanatic who lives out in the woods and sells homemade hooch, kidnaps the baby so he can raise him to be a prophet like himself. As the novel begins, Mason dies, leaving young […]



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