Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Fintan O’Toole

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

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“My parents’ wedding photographs always remind me of a frontier town in an old Western.” Fintan O’Toole, longtime journalist and writer, uses his lifetime as the scope for this recent history of Irish history. It’s partially a memoir too, but only in the sense of using his specific impressions and experience to serve the larger question of what was it like to live through the changes the country went through in the 65 years or so of the book. The style here is mostly serious, […]

Ray Bradbury

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

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“It was a warm afternoon when I first met the illustrated man.” This is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury first published in 1951. I think, but I am not sure, that many of the stories here were kind of scurf or detritus from his early years, looking for a home. So the packaging them together here gave them a way to live in a collection that might otherwise not work to celebrate their individual status, especially the ones that feel especially old. […]

Springing Clean

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Confess, Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Enigma by Robert Harris

Thinner by Stephen King

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Things have Gotten Worse since We Last Spoke “I was going to begin this with some absurd comment about the irony of posting about an apple peeler  in a queer discussion forum when most of us are probably upset by the mere mention of the word “fruit.” The most of this novella takes place on line in various communications between two people in a kind of fledgling and then growing, and then increasingly obsessive relationship. The tone and genre implications here really sell the horror […]

Enslavement Narratives (and related texts) in preparation for class

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

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” I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county, Maryland. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his […]

Giorgio Bassani

Novel of Ferrars by Giorgio Bassani

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This is a long collection of short novels about a town in between Bologna and Venice in northeast Italy circulating the long years of the wars, and especially in the lifetime of the novelist Giorgio Bassani, who lived from 1916-2000. Andre Aciman tells us in the introduction to the collection that the second world war created a kind of rift in Italian society, and moreover in Italian literature between those who saw the future as a place to moved toward and understand and an attempt […]

Harold Pinter

The Collection by Harold Pinter

The Lover by Harold Pinter

Moonlight by Harold Pinter

The Room by Harold Pinter

The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter

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The Dumb Waiter “BEN slams down the paper. BEN. Kaw ! He picks up the paper. What about this? Listen to this ! He refers to the paper. A man of eighty-seven wanted to cross the road. But there was a lot of traffic, see ? He couldn’t see how he was going to squeeze through. So he crawled under a lorry. GUS. He what ? BEN. He crawled under a lorry. A stationary lorry. GUS. No ? BEN. The lorry started and ran over […]



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