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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The Sea Was Angry That Day, My Friends

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

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I imagine that most people who read The Wager will do so having already read David’s last work, Killers of the Flower Moon. One of the most acclaimed non-fiction books in recent memory, Killers excavated a largely forgotten story and not only brought it back into the light but brought it to life with vivid prose and unforgettable real-life characters. In The Wager, Grann tries to do the same thing but with a much different story. Whereas Killers of the Flower Moon covered events in […]

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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Sally Milz (sidenote: what an annoying authorial choice, just make it Mills), 36, is living out her dream as a staff writer on The Night Owls, a late night comedy institution that just so happens to air on Saturdays at 11:30pm, feature a celebrity host and a musical guest, and is run by a legendary figure who is good friends with all the big-name ’70s rockstars. Any resemblance to real people or television shows is purely coincidental, I’m sure. Sally is used to the crazy […]

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?

Trust by Hernan Diaz

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I decided to read Trust because it recently split the Pulitzer Price for Fiction with Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead. I had already read (and reviewed) Kingsolver’s novel, and wanted to be able to say I had read both winners. A word of warning: I couldn’t figure out how to talk about this novel without a few mild spoilers. Trust is divided into four sections. The first relates the story of Wall Street financier Benjamin Rask and his wife Helen. Benjamin, the scion of a wealthy […]

Spies Vs. Spies

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

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In New York City, teachers charged with misconduct whose cases are still pending are not allowed in the classroom but also can’t be fired. They are instead assigned to a “reassignment center” that is commonly called the rubber room. The teachers stuck in the rubber room don’t have any real work to do, but they must show up day after day until their cases are resolved or they quit in frustration. Mick Herron’s Slow Horses, the first novel in the series of the same name, […]

Forty Thousand Winks

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King, Owen King

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A strange but beautiful woman calling herself Evie shows up in a small town in Appalachia, murders the local meth dealer in a shocking display of violence, and starts making cryptic statements from the local women’s prison. Meanwhile, a mysterious illness has broken out all over the world, wherein woman develop fibrous cocoons after falling asleep and can’t be woken up without deadly consequences. Figuring out the connection between these two events is a job that largely falls to a local married couple, Clint and […]

Fools and Their Money

French Exit by Patrick DeWitt

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To give you some context, I read this book a while ago and just forgot to write a review, so my memory of it isn’t quite as fresh as I would like it to be. Frances Price and her son Malcolm are idly rich New Yorkers who have been gradually spending down the fortune accrued by their husband and father Frank, a cutthroat lawyer who neither of them had much feeling for by the end. At long last, their accountant gives them the bad news […]



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