Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Brave New World

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!” I am rereading this for about the 10th time I think. I read it in high school and college, and then a few times since. I am also thinking about teaching it this year in replacement to another teacher teaching Never Let Me Go. This book has plenty of sex and drugs too, but it’s a little more indirect and the specific language […]

White Butterfly

White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

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The third novel in the Easy Rawlins novels, this book begins with Rawlins being confronted in his house by several local police and politicians. Rawlins is married now, and in the last book he adopted (under the table) a young Mexican boy who now lives with them. He’s also got an infant daughter by way of his wife. Anyway, Rawlins tells us that this is not typical to be confronted by police in his living room, where he is being coerced into helping them with […]

Inside Mr Enderby

Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess

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The first of a series of four novels written within a 20 year span in which a kind of literary alter ego for Anthony Burgess takes center stage. Enderby is a middle-aged poet, a consummate bachelor who lives with his stepmother, and composes his poetry (which is published to derision and mockery) on the toilet. When his stepmother dies, he is sent on a spiral where at one point he ends up very drunk in a bar adlibbing poetry to a woman whose husband would […]

The Resisters

The Resisters by Gish Jen

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

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The Resisters Previously this week I read the book The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel which involves a future baseball league that began as a splinter organization to allow augmented players. I described that novel as if Robert Coover wrote Blade Runner. Now this novel (which predates that novel by about a year — and I think it’s only fair to assume both writers were working independently respectively) is more like what if WP Kinsella wrote Nineteen Eighty Four. See the difference? Well, actually the […]

Grabbag

Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

A Sorrow beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

For Colored Girls... by Ntozake Shange

Madea by Euripides

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Beowulf by Trans. Heaney

Beowulf by Trans. Headley

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

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Point to Point Navigation – 4/5 This is a second and shorter memoir by Gore Vidal published a few years before he died. It wasn’t right before his death, but you get the impression that he is saying a last few things at least before he begins to wrap up his writing career. His career began when he was about 19 or so when he began writing what would become his first novel, Williwaw, a WWII short novel about a boat in the North Pacific […]

Baptism of Fire

Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

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This is the third of the Witcher novels, and the sixth book of the series I have read now, having completed the two story collections, the digressive novel Season of Storms, and the first two of the main storyline. The throughlines of this book: Triss, Philippa, Keira and other witches are banding together to maybe form a matriarchy? Ciri is in hiding, having joined a roving band, helping her solve the mystery of her past and future? Dykstra is plotting (go figure).   As far […]



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