Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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In 1947, George wrote again to Myra, saying that now the war was well over she should come home and marry him.

Stories by Doris Lessing

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1978 is a pretty good time to stop collecting the stories of Doris Lessing for publication. That’s not to say that she didn’t continue to write and write well thereafter (though I am waiting to read a few more things post 1980 for her to see exactly what she did write), but in the late 1970s is when she really dove into her science fiction phase with the Canopus at Argos books (which I actually love in their strange imperfection) as well as her Jane […]

Even from the windows of a prison, Rhodia was a beautiful place.

Aftershocks by Marko Kloos

The Instrument by John O'Hara

The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Meaty by Samantha Irby

The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton

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Aftershocks – 3/5 Stars This is a novel that begins a new trilogy by Marko Kloos (author of the Terms of Enlistment series, which I haven’t read). I bought it from Audible one day on sale for like $3, and while I am not entirely sure I am going to seek out further books in the series, I found that to be a pretty good deal. It’s structured similar to the Expanse series or Game of Thrones, in that there are several main characters, from […]

I did not want to know, but since I have come to know…

A Heart So White by Javier Marias

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Sometimes novels have a story and sometimes they are about things, and sometimes both. This is a both novel. I have remember that every time I pick up a Javier Marias novel, especially his older ones, that this will be the case. Our basic set up here is that Juan is a translator for the UN and he’s recently married/about to be married. His father, a secretive man who has been married several times takes up a fascination with Juan’s new marriage (he asks him […]

Sarah Huff needed a gun.

Point B by Drew Magary

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It’s 2030 and humans, through specially developed phones, can instantly teleport anywhere in the world. Our story begins with someone using this technology to real world cyberbully (by specifically teleporting into their house and bullying them) someone into suicide through a terror campaign. We jump from there a few years later as the victim of this abuse’s sister is beginning school at an elite prep school. She instantly falls in love with her new roommate, who it turns out is the daughter of the CEO […]

In June of 2016 my wife, Jen, and I took our fourteen-month-old daughter, Oona, to the Nantucket Film Festival.

The New One by Mike Birbiglia

My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers

Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter

Hey Rube by Hunter S Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

Nickle Brickle'Bee by Sterling Nixon

Cold Storage by David Koepp

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Mark of Zorro by Johnson McCulley

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber

The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark

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The New One – 3/5 Stars This is the second Mike Birbiglia book I’ve read, after Sleepwalk with Me, and it’s good in the ways that comedians’ books are good and bad in the way that comedians’ books are bad (though this is a general issue with the form more than this specific book). Mike Birbiglia’s career is interesting in part because of the way he clearly got taken up by “Big Storytelling” around 2009 or so, and the opportunities to write movies that came […]

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one’s outlook; it only confirms one’s idea that one is unique.

The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen

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This is a 1935 novel from the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen. I know her primarily for her novel The Death of the Heart, which always reminds me of the Cure song “Pictures of You”, but I think she’s also as well known for The Heat of the Day. This novel takes place primarily in Paris at a house on a single day. Henrietta has been promised a trip to Menton, the last town on the southern coast before you get to Italy. It’s a seaside town, and […]



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