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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John Prine: One Song at a Time by Bruce Rits Gilbert

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I should know better than to read a self-published book by a debut author, but John Prine: One Song at a Time was pitched pretty well. It’s described as a look at John Prine’s life and work through the lens of his songs. In actuality, it’s just all of Prine’s songs listed in chronological order by release date, with a few paragraphs of commentary on each. Even that could be interesting, if not for the fact that the author has little insight into Prine’s lyrics […]

Rocky Mountain Why?

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

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When you’re as big a name as Stephen King, they really will just let you publish anything. The Colorado Kid is purportedly a mystery novel, but it determinedly disavows the conventions of the genre. What it actually is, is a tease. The novel takes the format of a conversation between two old newspaper hands at a local weekly paper on an island off Maine and their young female intern. They’ve just dispatched a nosy Boston Globe reporter who was looking for fodder for some kind […]

Surface Level

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Carrie Soto retires from professional tennis at age 32 as the winningest player in the history of the Women’s Tour. However, five years later she watches in horror as her mark of 20 Grand Slams is tied by the younger star, Nicki Chan. Unwilling to let go of her most cherished accomplishment, Soto decides to come out of retirement alongside her father/coach Javier and take another crack at extending her record before Chan can surpass it. In Soto, Taylor Jenkins Reid has rendered an unusual […]

The Rise and Fall of Total Football

Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner

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Before cracking open this book I could have told you the following things about Dutch football: that there was a famous player named Johan Cruyff who has some kind of “turn” named after him, that the best team in the country is named Ajax but it’s not pronounced like you’d think, and that the national team wears orange. I was also familiar with the name “Total Football” but I couldn’t have described it in any detail. Winner’s book is only sort of a history of […]

Dickens in Appalachia

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Demon Copperhead, born to a drug-addicted single mother in an Appalachian trailer park, is the protagonist of Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, a modern re-telling of Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. Like his literary forebear, Demon’s life will be full of struggle and cruelty, mostly from an indifferent society and from adults who are too focused on their own problems to help out. The beats of the story will be familiar to anyone who has read the original novel. Demon’s mother makes a terrible miscalculation in marrying […]

An Offer I Couldn’t Refuse

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

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My father has this theory that the only reason people usually say that the book is better than the movie is because they encountered the book first. If you read the book and then watch the adaptation, you’ll be caught up with what got left out of the movie and thus find it wanting. Whereas if you saw the movie first, you’ll be more likely to agree with the filmmakers that the book is overstuffed with unnecessary characters and superfluous scenes. I usually try to […]



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