Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Whatever happened to Interracial Love?

Whatever happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins

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I have read and reviewed this book before, but I reread it by listening to the audiobook, so I was thinking about it some more. This is a kind of collection that comes out from time to time, where the children or other literary executors from an artist work to get the writer’s work published posthumously. In this case, Kathleen Collins was primarily known as a filmmaker, but she died early in her life at 46 of cancer. In recent years, her two children were […]

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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We won’t be able to go to the lighthouse tomorrow it seems. In this novel, we find ourselves in the Hebrides as a group of people are more or less on vacation. As with many Virginia Woolf novels, our narrative perspective flits around from person to person in a close, omniscient third person as they consider their lives in general, and on this trip specifically. Our main characters are a young painter named Lily Briscoe. We have the Ramsays, a married couple with eight children. […]

Toward the End of the Morning

Toward the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn

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This is one of those British novels from the 1960s that is trying to capture the changing tone and impulses in the country stemming from the end of the war and the institution of the welfare state, and of course, the end of Empire. The novel takes places in a dying, middling paper on Fleet Street, the slightly mythic part of London with the famous daily papers. Our two main character is a married man named John Dyson, who foolishly bought a mediocre house in […]

Red Dragon

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

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This is the first book in the Hannibal Lecter series. If you’ve seen the tv show Hannibal, then this is where they were headed before the show was cancelled. So we more or less begin in medias res with Will Graham, criminal profiler (I will use this as a shortcut), no longer works with the FBI because in his capture of Hannibal Lecter, which predates the novel, and now he’s married and living far away from DC. He has a sense that he’s going to […]

A’s Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’s

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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What fools these mortals be! And also what dicks these immortals be, well Puck and Oberon at least. In this Shakespeare comedy, we find four young Athenian nobles trying to sort out their possible marriages. Their parents are making wrong choices or choices that only adhere to the parent’s political and financial desires, and not the love of the young people. Everything all mixed up, they decide to run away. The find their way into the woods where they are found sleeping by Oberon, king […]

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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

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The Penelopiad – 4/5 This short book was written as part of a mythology fiction project in the early 00s where contemporary writers took on classic myths. Karen Armstrong wrote an overall history of mytholy, David Grossman wrote about Samson and Delilah, AS Byatt wrote about Ragnorok. As she did with the Shakespeare project when she wrote Hag-Seed based in The Tempest, she knocked the ball out of the park with this one. I think this is in part because she already has written numerous […]



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