Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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My name is Laurie Stratton.

Stranger with my Face by Lois Duncan

Ransom by Lois Duncan

They Never Came Home by Lois Duncan

Debutante Hill by Lois Duncan

Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan

Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan

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A Lois Duncan explosion!! So a few years back I started rereading a bunch of the Lois Duncan books. They had been rereleased in the mid 2000s and “updated” in the sense that many of the characters would call on a cell phone rather than a landline. What becomes clear in reading all of these (minus the Debutante Hill book) is that that changeover wouldn’t work because so many of the different obstacles of the books would be nearly instantly solved with cell phones and the internet, […]

Later that summer, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep she knew there was no way out…

The Bad Seed by William March

Dracula's Guest and Other Stories by Bram Stoker

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James

The Dare by RL Stine

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

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The Bad Seed – 3/5 Stars The book about a bad kid hurting and killing other people, and the questions around what makes her tick. I guess I think I have seen the movie of this years ago, but other than “bad kid” I don’t recall much of it. The book dives into the psychology and especially the genetics of the questions of “bad kid” in ways that I imagine are pretty early for the genre. So this is the book that sort of started […]

The late twentieth century has witnessed a remarkable growth in scientific interest in the subject of extinction.

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

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This is probably the fifth time I’ve read this one, the sequel to Jurassic Park. I remember eagerly awaiting this one coming out when I was in high school, getting it from the library, looking at the illustrations on the inside covers, and even the goofy promise of “A NEW DINOSAUR” on the front cover, which pops up for like one minute very late in the story. It’s a solid adventure novel that writes itself into the sub genre of lost world novels pretty squarely, […]

For me, the terror–the real terror, as opposed to whatever demons and bogeys which might have been living in my own mind–began on an afternoon in October of 1957.

Danse Macabre by Stephen King

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This is one of those Stephen King books my brother and I owned but never got around to reading, and I think for the most part that’s a good thing. The book itself, written by King when he was like 33 or so, is a collection of literary analysis (or more so cultural analysis) of horror genre (fiction, movies, radio, and tv) and is written at about the depth of solid criticism (while constantly averring about in depth scholarly analysis). I came away from it […]

I’d been demoted and was shoveling slide-back and minding my own business when they found Dwayne Mays’s body in a pile of gob.

Down Don't Bother Me by Jason Miller

Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House by Eric Hodgins

Growing Up by Russell Baker

Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous

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Down Don’t Bother Me – 3/5 Stars This is a short gritty Illinois coal country noir novel. I picked it up because I follow the author online but only know him through his relatively insightful and mostly very angry response to the garbage world we all live in. When I was able to grab a copy of his book I did. The novel takes place in southern Illinois in those kinds of rural spaces where there’s a lot of open land, little townlets, and in […]

Veldt to scrub to fields to farms to these first tumbling houses that rise from the earth.

Perdido Street Station by China Meiville

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A hugely rich and wonderfully written fantasy novel that is weird weird weird and also deeply frustrating at other times. So we begin with a long description of the city of New Crobuzon, which feels modeled slightly on a 19th century London, but also there’s a heavy mix of Russian cities, other fantasy cities, and plenty of originality. New Crobuzon’s city center is housed within this giant castle-like train station that acts as a hub and clearly has been repurposed over time. The city is […]



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