Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Next-to-Last Time I was Shot Out of a Cannon (and other often strangely fantastical stories)

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

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One of many things I like about my current book club is that the choosing of titles is a collaboration (involving initial nominations and then a round of voting) to determine our reads for the full year.  As a result, the books are a mix of things I have heard of (and want to read and/or have read) and books/authors that are totally unknown to me.  This book of short stories by Etgar Keret, an Israeli author, falls into the latter category. After the first […]

Mixed Bag of Mixed Bags

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

Steel and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert Heinlein

V2 by Robert Harris

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The Wordy Shipmates – 4/5 Stars I wonder how many people know that if you’re from parts of the country, you’re basically not taught about the Puritans at all. You get the same kind of education that Sarah Vowell talks about early in this book with discussions about “the first Thanksgiving” and plenty of other oblique, but not entirely in depth look into the early colonialization of New England. In the South, you’re mostly taught about Jamestown, or your own respective colony (if you had […]

“The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don’t trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.”

Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link

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Stranger Things Happen is Kelly Link’s first collection of short fiction, but- PLOT TWIST: it was the only book of hers that I had yet to read. Oops! I suppose….stranger things HAVE happened. Link writes like the  girl in the back of homeroom who is weird, yes, but also cool and intimidating. She’s probably wearing black and writing allover her arms with a ballpoint pen. She knows a lot and she is not afraid to drop reference after reference and allusion after allusion- she doesn’t care […]

Don’t we all want that?

Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Ralphael Bob-Waksberg

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I love Bojack Horseman. It’s one of the best TV-series ever, it starts out good, it only gets better as the show progresses and it culminates in an amazing finale. It’s also one of the few shows where I looked up who wrote it. I know, I should do that more often because every time I’ve done it, I’ve come across great new material to watch or read. In the case of the Bojack Horseman writers though, I mainly wanted to see if they’re ok, […]

Short, snappy collection of short stories on wuv

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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This was a great short collection of irreverent stories, that hit a bit close to home for Personal Life Reasons but nonetheless were enjoyable to read! Recommended by Priti for Bookticle Club (an august organization that began as Happy Hour Hangout, then had a brief dalliance as Book Club before settling into Article Club for many a year, and then went into hibernation before being reborn during COVID–for a time as Bookticle Club, an attempt to sneak “Book Club” past everyone’s newly refreshed “I am […]

Ghosties

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

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20th Century Ghosts – 3/5 Stars Decidedly a mixed bag for me on this first collection of Joe Hill stories. What’s interesting in part is that the ways in which this book is talked about on the cover, in the introduction, and other places really seems to indicate that they weren’t sure Joe Hill was going to make it, or wanted people to take him seriously. Without a doubt he’s a serious writer, and very talented, but that sort of “son of the most famous […]



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