Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Learning to Talk

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel

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Families! Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – 3/5 Stars I went looking for some pictures of David Sedaris and his family after listening to the audiobook here and stumbled upon the article about the suicide of his sister Tiffany. Along with that article came some additional writings by people responding to it. This book is probably the strongest version of “You Can’t Go Home Again” in Sedaris’s writing, especially as it pertains not only to his sister, but to various of conversation represented […]

Shorts and Re-reads

Ripley Underground by Patricia Highsmith

Disgrace by Ayad Akhtar

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

Agnes of God by John Pielmeier

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

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Ripley Underground – 4/5 The second Tom Ripley novel begins with the revelation that we’re about ten or so years on from the first novel, that Tom is now married and living off his “inheritance” from Dickie’s forged will. He’s in London and he’s become involved in an art forgery scheme. Recently an artist whom Tom had been connected with became a lucrative commodity and Tom was able to facilitate the sale of the artist’s work after he died. No one really knew for sure […]

My Word

My Word by Gizelle Bryant

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If you don’t know Gizelle Bryant, she is one of the original cast members of The Real Housewives of Potomac. On the show, she’s well known for being divorced from a famous meagchurch in the area. It turns that not only had he been cheating on her, but that he also had a secret family. In the show Gizelle has the air of someone who had been through a lot and learned a lot of lessons from it. She’s also one of the more compelling […]

The Lady of the Lake

The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

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The final Witcher novel, and phew, I hate to say it, but I am glad I am done. The Witcher is a very good and very frustrating series to read. I will try to explain. In this novel, we have two distinctly different frame stories happening at the same time. We are far into the future for both of them, and we know one character that is still around, and none of the others. But it also means that all the others are likely dead, […]

The Hunter

The Hunter by Richard Stark

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This novel is a bare-knuckle revenge thriller with a despicable protagonist who enacts violence on people slightly more despicable than him. Parker has just escaped from prison, where he’d been picked up as a vagrant. He wasn’t actually a vagrant but was in disguise in order to lay low after a bad job (he’s in the organized heist business). His partner and his wife betrayed him, and she shot him and left him for dead. Now back in town, he’s trying to figure out who […]

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Still easily one of the most brilliant novels I’ve ever read, now twice. I am often on the lookout not only for good novel, which I like of course, but perfect novels. This is a perfect novel. If you’ve never read it, Stevens is a butler from a fine old English estate. It’s after the war now though and what was once the stately manor has been sold off to a rich American, who wanted one of those famous kinds of butlers. We learn early […]



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