Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Power Broker – Robert Caro (1974)

The Power Broker by Robert Caro

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Cbr13Bingo – Cityscape! I didn’t grow up in New York and I’ve only been a handful of times to the city. I spent several years living in Central Tier, where some of the legends of the city don’t quite permeate, but I suppose I still experienced my share of Robert Moses projects. Robert Moses held around a dozen different posts in and around New York City and New York state from the early 1920s through the late 1960s. If you’ve basically stepped foot in New […]

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Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry

Loop Group by Larry McMurtry

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CBR13Bingo – Free! (Taking full advantage of the library system to get audiobooks of mediocre books by a writer I like!) Telegraph Days – 3/5 Stars Another of McMurty’s novels that takes on real figures and writes a novel around them. Nellie Courtwright and her brother Jackson have moved to the town of Rio Blanca (near, but not too near Dodge City Kansas) after finding their father dead from an apparent suicide. She’s 22 and her brother is just 17 and they’re the last two […]

Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami (2014)

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

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Most of all in his short fiction, I can never quite tell how seriously to take Haruki Murakami’s writing, but at the same time I am compelled by it. The lack of seriousness I feel (and I don’t mean in the writing itself, because I do think he takes himself seriously, and in an appropriate way) is that so many of the stories are almost exactly alike the other stories. If you took the names off and took the plots away a little, would you […]

Baal – Robert McCammon (1978)

Baal by Robert McCammon

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CBR13Bingo – Travel (Trigger Warning: sexual violence) One of my favorite tropes that happens in movies is when a character starts to realize that maybe their nextdoor neighbor is a vampire or whatever, and so they go to the library and get some giant book about vampires, and in one chapter there’s all the relevant information right there, and even a few illustrations to go with it that looks almost exactly like the character we’ve seen on screen. Crazy! Recent movies and books have of […]

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers (1940)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

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CBR13Bingo – White Whale From a combination of reading a lot of Southern literature in college and beyond, from various book lists like the MLA Top 100 and plenty of other sources, this is one of those books that’s been in my conscientiousness for a long time, and for whatever reason, I avoided reading it. It’s interesting too because I’ve A Member of the Wedding a few times, and all of McCullers’s short stories, but for whatever reason, I find myself only reading it now. […]

The Debt to Pleasure – John Lanchester (1996)

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

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CBR13Bingo – Libations Here, watch this:   On the one hand I liked a lot about this book, and on the other hand it got to be a little bit of a drag at certain parts. Like all food blogs, this novel, which poses as a cookbook or recipe book has a bit of a “when do they get to the fireworks factory” issue. Our narrator, an eclectic and cryptic food writer, is slowly taking us through a culinary adventure using the seasons as his […]



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