Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Riddle Master

Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia McKillip

Heir of Sea and Air by Patricia McKillip

Harpist in the Wind by Patricia McKillip

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The Riddle-Master of Hed Re-reading this since the first time I looked at it a few years ago, I am stuck by how much more I enjoyed it the second time around. I read first about ten years ago in the full collection with all three books, and finished this first volume, and never went back. We begin in Hed, where Morgon, the prince, has recently returned from a mysterious voyage. His sister first finds an old crown under his bed, and when she confronts […]

Dan Simmons Short(er) fiction

Looking for Kelly Dahl by Dan Simmons

Ninth of Av by Dan Simmons

On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons

The End of Gravity by Dan Simmons

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Worlds Enough and Time – Novellas This collection of novellas came out in 2002 and represents recent writing for Simmons. I think I first heard of Dan Simmons with the publication of The Terror, but it’s also possible that I read The Terror because I really like Ilium. I just don’t recall which I read first or when. Anyway, one of the things that happens when you read a lot of Dan Simmons is that he comes across as very hard to pin down in […]

Maigret Roundup

Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon

The Misty Harbour by Georges Simenon

The Liberty Bar by Georges Simenon

Maigret by Georges Simenon

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These  are all short mystery novels by Georges Simenon with the character Maigret solving a crime, usually in some non-local capacity. Maigret is part of the “flying squad” which means that he travels around the country as a travelling detective and solving crimes that are too big for local police. Yellow Dog In this novel, the sixth in the series, Maigret is called in where a local wine dealer is shot on his way home and it’s unclear who and how many people might have […]

Musashi

The Way of the Samurai by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Art of War by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Way of the Sword by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Bushido Code by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Way of Life and Death by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Book of the Five Rings by Miyamoto Musahsi

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So this historical novel came out in the 1930s, and the introduction here unfortunately calls it the “Gone with the Wind” of Japan, which might be true in terms of the epic scope and readability, but given that I am quite sour on “Gone with the Wind” I hope that is the full connection. Then there’s another connection that the introduction discusses, which is with the James Clavell novel Shogun, which came out about 30 or so years later and tells a similar story against the […]

Welcome to Urth

The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe

Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

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Citadel of the Autarch – 4/5 This is a re-read of the book and this time through an audiobook. It’s now the the fourth book in the series and we pick up right at the end of last book. Severian has been drained after a big fight in the last book and is wandering along when he finds a dead solider. He brings them back to life with the Claw and then continues north where a battle is in its early formation. Severian joins the […]

Journey to the East

Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

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This short novel begins with the narrator explaining to the reader that they are moving into a journey at the behest of “The League” a mysterious organization that is concerned with Eastern religion, enlightenment, and a code of sorts. Our narrator also realizes that something has failed in his journey and he is investigating what that is. His journey to the East, however, also starts and ends in the southern part of Germany, not expressly known for being a haven of Eastern religion, and so […]



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