Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I Parrot – Deb Olin Unferth (2017)

I, Parrot by Deb Olin Unferth

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If you’ve read Melissa Broder’s book The Pisces, you’ve probably had the thought that, yeah, obviously I wouldn’t asking this person to watch my dog. And this graphic novel gives us about the same vibes. A woman with a young son, a recent divorce, and a new boyfriend who seems great, and maybe is? Embark on an obviously ill-fated housesitting gig. The boy shows up later, but when we first arrive, a woman’s boss is about to leave town, and she’s worried she might lose […]

Dimestore – Lee Smith (2016)

Dimestore by Lee Smith

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CBR13Bingo – Home A short memoir that’s not exactly a memoir. Instead, this short book by Lee Smith is a series of topical essays about her memoir. They tie together in the sense of their being all part of her life, but the individual parts are much more interesting than the whole. They don’t hang together, but treated separately they’re wonderful. If you don’t know Lee Smith, you should! She’s from a small town in the far western mountains of Virginia. From where I lived, […]

Inferno – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1975)

Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell

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CBR13Bingo – Mythic Like Dante’s Inferno, this book is more of a time capsule than a truly interesting reading experience. Unless I completely missed it, and I might have, it’s not as thickly layered with criticism and allusion to much more obscure and more “minor” sinners the way Dante’s is, and instead tries to hit the big bads. Instead of Virgil, his guide is Mussolini, hinting at the more fallen nature of classicism in the 20th century. If Virgil was the cultural historian of Rome/Italy […]

Saga of the Swamp Thing vol 1- Alan Moore (1982)

Saga of the Swamp Thing vol 1 by Alan Moore

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CBR13Bingo – Flora Some of the other reviews mention that this one is a little rough compared to where this series will go. Good…I liked it and found it interesting, but not super compelling. It felt very much like a time capsule or like listening to a somewhat immature first album that shows a lot of promise. Swamp Thing is a weird one. I watched the movie as a kid, but the story, the pathos, the ideas don’t really stick with me. I suppose I […]

Before the Storm – Rick Perlstein (2001)

Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein

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CBR13Bingo: People (check out Barry G on this cover) “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;” So this is a 2001 history of the Republican Party starting in about 1955 or so and moving through election night (and a tiny bit thereafter) in 1964. If you’ve read Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” you already know a lot about the feel of the feeling of conservatism around this time. In addition, another oddly positioned book The Day […]

A Lie someone told about yourself – Peter Ho Davies (2021)

A Lie someone told about yourself by Peter Ho Davies

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This is a strange book that was more interesting and intricate than I realized until near the end. The book itself is a rather intimate first person narration of a father, in the capacity of being a father. The narration feels like it’s pretty close if not directly about Peter Ho Davies, and certainly gives that impression. The novel is about a father who has a son, and in addition to this son, he’s still giving a lot of thought and feeling to an abortion […]



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