Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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All I ever wanted to do was teach.

Election by Tom Perrotta

Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta

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Election – 4/5 The publication of this book is kind of curious. Tom Perrotta had had a book rejected or something like that and they asked him if they had anything else to offer, and he pulled this book out. Before it was even published it was already optioned and filming began. So the book came out almost at the same time as the movie. And this was one of those movies I randomly saw in the theater in high school and was blown away […]

The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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The book that inspired the movie that inspired my favorite Youtube video of all time. The first time I read Jurassic Park I was like 11 and it was the summer it came out in the theaters. We were driving to the beach and my brother had already read it and I had to fight him to keep from telling me what happens in the novel before I was able to read it. I also had a cursory (still do!) understanding of chaos theory from reading […]

Jerry Barlow eased the ’67 Sportster to the edge of the sand road and shut off the motor.

Tiny Love by Larry Brown

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I don’t know whether or not people know much about or like Larry Brown. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi–the hometown of William Faulkner, and they crossed in timelines for about 10 years. But Larry Brown was a longtime fire chief, then sat down to write thriller stories, to middling success, and ending up writing a number of short stories, and a half dozen or so novels. His novels are a little all over the place (as with a lot of writers) in terms of […]

The house, like the party, was subsiding.

Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk

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This is the first novel by Rachel Cusk, whose Outline Trilogy that came out in the last couple of years is about as good as any serious novel in the same time. This novel is a little different, told from the outside instead of the interior, so the effect is that it’s about a character instead of within a character. Agnes Day (yes yes pun intended) is neither a fortunate nor unfortunate young woman who finds herself in adulthood ill-equipped to not only be an […]

So let me dish you this comedy about a family I knew when I was growing up.

The Ice Storm by Rick Moody

Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody

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The Ice Storm – 3/5 I feel like everybody in my age group watched this movie when it first came out in the theaters or on tape. It’s Ang Lee, it’s full of famous faces, it’s sad, it’s weird, it’s dark, and it’s funny. And it’s about swingers, kind of. The novel is all those things as well. The story is about an ice storm over the long Thanksgiving weekend in Connecticut in 1973. Two families, neighbors, are intertwined through their shared spaces and the […]

When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

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So because of the recent news of the prequel book(s?) coming out in the next few months, and especially given the chosen subject of those books, I wanted to revisit the series again and since every library still has 100 copies of each of them, seemed perfectly doable. I, for one, am more interested in the new because she’s chosen to look into Snow as a character more, and explore some of the early days of Panem. For one, from what I recall about the […]



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