Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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It was her third time with live ammunition…and her first time on the draw from the holster Roland had rigged for her.

The Waste Lands by Stephen King

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This is my second read through the series, having read The Drawing of the Three and The Gunslinger a few more times. The first time I read this book was about 8 or so years ago while being a nanny for my newly adopted nephew. He cried a lot and I would sometimes sing to him, or I would sit with him and rock him while playing the audiobook of this aloud for us both to hear. He was an infant, so it was ok. […]

I never read prologues.

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

White Fang by Jack London

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

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In the Dream House – 4/5 Stars This memoir came out a year or so ago, and because I was kind of mixed on the short story collection, I didn’t pick it up. Since then, I’ve been a little back and forth on reading it or not reading. Partly, because of the subject matter, I knew it would be rough going. And it is. This is a book that involves Carmen Maria Machado looking back and narrating being in an abusive relationship with another writer, […]

The brown ant had already forgotten its home.

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

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The second novel in the Cixin Liu series about Earth’s Past series which began with The Third Body Problem. This novel is great, and it’s a great follow up to the first novel. For one, it’s a branching off the good work of the first novel while also needing to be vastly different because of the ways in the which the narrative had shifted by the end of the first novel. Knowing that an invading alien force is coming for the Earth, but not for […]

Tragedy had struck the Winshaws twice before, but never on such a terrible scale.

What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

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A truly bizarre and inventive novel from the mid-1990s by the British writer Jonathan Coe. I’ve read one of his later novels later and really enjoyed it and IT oddly felt like a first novel, while this novel, earlier feels more mature in some ways. We meet Michael Owen, failed novelist (well, successful, but now fading) who has been commissioned by a spinster aunt of a rich land-owning British family to write a definitive biography of the family. The Winshaws are a corrupt and awful […]

The prince is sleeping now.

Letters from Atlantis by Robert Silverberg

Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg

Nightwings by Robert Silverberg

Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson

The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi

Technopoly by Neil Postman

The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman

The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

The Game of X by Robert Sheckley

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

White Fang by Jack London

The Man on the Balcony by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall

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Letters from Atlantis – 4/5 Stars In this novella, we meet a time travelling archeologist/anthropologist writing letters to his wife. Seems normal enough (well, minus the time travelling) but what we find out is that this narrator is actually 20,000 years in the past in Atlantis, the mythical or not mythical island country that existed pre-historically, and if the stories that go at least as far back as Plato go, was seemingly advanced. So the time traveler is observing, this society has electricity, as well […]

It began to snow.

The Samurai by Shusako Endo

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In the introduction to this novel, it seems as if Endo had a Western audience in mind for this novel (though he wrote in Japanese) because he writes an introduction introduces some historical context for the reader who wouldn’t be familiar with Japanese history. That context is in the years of first contact with Europe by way of Catholics missionaries (Dominicans in this novel if I recall correctly), and prior to the full on cultural invasion of those same missionaries in that next two centuries. […]



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