Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass.”

James by Percival Everett

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I heard from multiple people that James was THE BOOK to read last year, and it was on a lot of best of lists, so I was exicted to give it a read. It fully hooked me from the first sentence “Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass.” I didn’t have a lot of expectations about this book, but having me chuckle from the start was a surprise. This is a retelling of the classic tale Huck Finn but from the […]

Less than Dino-might

Dinosaur Explorers V08: Lord of the Skies by Albbie

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“I cannot finish this book.” Was my first thought only a handful of pages into Dinosaur Explorers V08: Lord of the Skies by Albbie. Yet, I got about probably about halfway thorough before I noticed that the chapter I was on had no new images. Everything had been repeated (or seemed to be) to the point I was wondering if there was a mistake and a few pages just keep getting repeated over and over. It was an eBook, but still, I could see it […]

1st BINGO!

Finn by Jon Clinch

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Since I read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as my classic this year, what better way to do the Remix square then to find a retelling of the book I had just finished. The original would be fresh in my mind and I’d have a place to jump off from. I found Finn at the local book barn, and since it was only $5.00 for the hardcover, what was the harm? The premise was intriguing….a whole book from Huck’s father’s perspective….and for full disclosure, I was taken […]

I have just read Mark Twain for the first time.

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I am ashamed to admit that until this past week, I had never read any Mark Twain. How does a person enter their 6th decade of life, born and raised in the United States, and not have read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? I have no explanations or excuses, but I thank Badkittyuno, who drew my name in the holiday book exchange, for guarding my shameful confession and sending both books to me. In some respects the two classic novels are like a lot of […]



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