Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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Try and contain your shock, but a book by Joe Hill is dark. I’m used to the horror author writing books that have a macabre bent, but this was less “skeleton and ghost dark” and more “I’m gonna curl up on the couch and remind myself that this is fiction dark.” The collection is four novellas connected loosely by abnormal weather – lightning storms in “Snapshot,” a firestorm in “Loaded,” an unusual cloud in “Aloft” and fulgurite rain in “Rain.” But the darkest part of […]

Salt the earth outside the wheelhouse

she just wants to forget by r. h. sin

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I don’t read much poetry, and I read even less inspirational literature, so this is a twofer for my Not My Wheelhouse square. I feel like I’ve been asked to review The Room. As a comedy, this book gets 1000/5 stars (skip to the end for some schadenfreude). As a deep work of inspirational poetry, zero stars and I want the half hour this took me to read back.  There is a reason poetry is out of my wheelhouse, it can be amazing or a […]

What do I read next, hivemind? (I Love This)

The Trespasser by Tana French

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I’m so in love with Tana French’s murder squad series that I temporarily convinced myself that I liked mysteries (keep a lookout for my Not In My Wheelhouse pick, which is almost certainly going to be one of two remaindered books I bought because I wanted more Tana French and have run out of her writing to read). I don’t know that I do, I just really like good writing, and French is amazing. So yeah, my “I Love This” isn’t the genre or the […]

I’m not going far. I’ll always be here. Just an inch away. I promise. (listicle)

Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott

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This was a book I didn’t know existed until it showed up on two lists, as though the universe wanted my Listicle bingo square filled.  Some website, probably Barnes and Noble, had a list of young adult books turned into movies, and as An Old, I had never heard of either the book or the movie. A coworker also had it in her to-be-read pile. As today was a slow day at work and I accidentally brought a book in today for my lunch break […]

Lust and Wander (Rainbow Flag)

Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

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My choice for my Rainbow Flag bingo space is Augusten Burroughs’ Lust and Wonder, another memoir from the author of Running With Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking. I love Burroughs’ earlier books, and there are flashes of brilliance here, but I think that this reads more like a diary than a cohesive book. Burroughs writes here about relationships both failed and successful, and his pattern of allowing his anxiety and neuroses to have him fall into familiar patterns of denying his feelings and attempting to […]

More like late fall (summer read) / Cannonball!

The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

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I’m shooting for a double cannonball this go-round, so yay to the halfway point! Only slightly off-target, but there’ll be time to catch up, two trips coming up in the next six weeks. This is also my “Summer Read” square for cannonball bingo, specifically purchased for sunbathing and relaxing, as Liane Moriarty writes the literary equivalent of frappucinos. Frothy, sweet, perfect for the heat, but with a little espresso darkness to give it body and make you feel both fancy and like you’re not having […]



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