Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A pleasant but rambling (and jarring) journey

Where the Dear and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

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Nick Offerman’s fifth book, Where the Dear and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American who Loves to Walk Outside is as unnecessarily wordy and rambling as its title. Arranged as a collection of three separate journeys, Where the Dear recounts actor/writer/humorist Nick Offerman’s hiking trip in Montana with Wilco musician Jeff Tweedy and writer George Saunders, his repeated visits to the farm home of James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd’s Life, outside of Liverpool, and finally a cross country ramble to […]

Oh wait, have you heard this one before?

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

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One year ago. They were pissed, to begin with. A little. Not nearly as much as Horatio is now. Only a shared Viognier bottle over fresh pasta, then a pair of whiskeys so they wouldn’t have to leave the restaurant, abandon the silk ribbons of wind. All the sharp corners sanded off their inhibitions. It was the sort of perfect-weather night that saddens New Yorkers because there are only ten or twelve per year. The city becomes an hourglass, precious grains lost every second. – […]

A tense, haunting, and beautifully written thriller

Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta

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He thought he could get them. He didn’t understand who they were, though. What they were. She could see them again and, worse, hear them, those calm voices in a beautiful, still night. Could smell the old smoke and the old blood. Then the fresh versions that followed. She prayed for her husband then, prayed that he would not meet them, would not hear them, would not smell them. It felt too late, though. She’d slept too long, and he’d made his choice too early. […]

Hail Mary, full of Grace

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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According to Wikipedia, “A Hail Mary pass is a very long forward pass in American football, typically made in desperation, with an exceptionally small chance of achieving a completion. Due to the difficulty of a completion with this pass, it makes reference to the Catholic “Hail Mary” prayer for divine help.” When Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary begins, Ryland Grace is the sole living astronaut onboard a spaceship named Hail Mary heading to a distant star as a one-shot suicide mission to save the Earth. […]

You (still) can’t take the sky from me.

Firefly: The Unification War (Vol. 1-3) by Greg Pak (Writer), Dan McDaid (Illustrations), Marcelo Costa (Coloring)

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Everyone’s favorite band of space smugglers are back in the black with Boom!Studios comics revival of Firefly. Fans of the criminally short-lived Fox tv series Firefly have been waiting for a continuation of the beloved series. After the big-screen Serenity ended the series with a bang the property lay dormant for a few years. Every now and then a new graphic novel would drop but those all took place after Serenity or heavily featured flashbacks to tie in dead characters. That is until Boom! Studios […]

Paula Hawkins third novel is her best one yet.

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

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Daniel Sutherland is found viciously murdered aboard his houseboat on the dock of a London canal by Miriam, an older woman on a neighboring boat. A troubled young woman, Laura, was seen leaving the docks covered in blood, and the police quickly zero in on her as the suspect, despite the fact they cannot find the murder weapon. Soon the people that best knew Daniel are pulled into orbit with one another and long-simmering resentment will erupt into a conflagration.  Motive is the question that […]



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