Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Ride the Pink Horse – Dorothy Hughes (1946)

Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy Hughes

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This is a book offered up for free by the new Audible Plus service, and that’s probably mostly why I listened to it. I’ve read Dorothy Hughes’s much more famous novel In a Lonely Place, which is a pretty bleak and dreary novel too (and this is as well), but it also holds up a little better than this one. We meet Sailor, a kind of cast away character who shows up in a town hosting a Spanish festival. He, of course, makes the mistakes […]

The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts by Burke Davis

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I bought this book at some kind of book fair when I was a kid. I think quite possibly at a school library fair in elementary school. This was about the time I first read Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith and was reading a lot about the Civil War, especially novels where kids were the protagonists. I probably read this book a dozen times as a kid, and I am reading it again for the first time in 25 years probably. Well, you can […]

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Civil War: A Narrative Vol 1 – Shelby Foote (1954)

Civil War: A Narrative Vol 1 by Shelby Foote

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I guess it’s important to start with a list of what this book is and isn’t. It’s a narrative history of the US Civil War starting with the months prior to the war and moving through the first years of the war ending leading up to the release of the Emancipation Declaration. Because a lot of different things happen on a given day, there’s often multiple threads happening at the same time. It’s clearly based on primary documents (in much of what we get here) […]

Magnificence – Lydia Millet (2013)

Magnificence by Lydia Millet

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Another book I read not realizing it’s part of a “thematic” trilogy, so not really part of a trilogy. Anyway, this book begins with our lead character, a middle-aged woman, whose husband goes to a foreign country to bring back her boss, and ends up being murdered in the street. She doesn’t find this out until she’s at the airport to pick up both men and sees her boss and her husband’s coffin. From there, she inherits an uncle’s large mansion and taxidermy collection. It […]

Old Herbaceous – Reginald Arkell (1948)

Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell

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The blurbs on this book sell it short, because they compare it to a Jeeves and Wooster novel. There’s the slightest of comparisons there, but it also belies that this novel is more so like a Stoner (by John Williams) for gardeners. We begin with the old Old Herbaceous working in his garden in his 80s. We’re told a little about his reputation and his sensibility. He’s arrogant, but competent. He’s a genius, and he’ll let you know it. Those kinds of things. When get […]

A Smuggler’s Bible – Joseph McElroy (1966)

A Smuggler's Bible by Joseph McElroy

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Similar to when I read Robert Coover’s first novel, The Origin of the Brunists, which came out about this same time, I mistook the overall impression and reputation of the author when I first came across them for what that early novel would be like. Like Coover, McElroy is categorized as a writer alongside Pynchon, Delillo, Gass, and of course William Gaddis. But like Delillo and Coover, especially, there’s as much modern as postmodern in the fiction. This book also is slightly in the shadow […]



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