Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Now, what could I do with the boy? Joshua asked himself.

Making of the Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon

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I think I liked this novel a lot more than other readers, but I also feel like there’s a LITTLE TOO MUCH Vel Veeter in this novel for comfort. I have a thing about authors capturing kind of figure in text (white, middle-class-ish, grad student or close enough, wayward, somewhat outwardly and inwardly destructive). I’m not saying these are good people, but it also feels most interesting when someone is a kind of reformed version of this figure looking backward and writing about it. So […]

Nowhere Story

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I truthfully don’t know how to write a review about a book like this. On the one hand, I feel compelled to defend my intellectual capacity to analyze literature, but on the other hand, I kind of just want to admit that I don’t get it. On the surface, there’s not that much to “get.” Nowhere Man is comprised of several stories at different times from different viewpoints that all describe the life of Josef Pronek, a Bosnian ex-pat who moves to Chicago in his third or […]

Sarajevo to Chicago

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I actually first saw this book on a list for new releases in 2013, and though it peaked my interest, I didn’t hear much of anything else about it, so I decided to wait. I finally picked it up recently, and thought it was a pleasant enough read. Some of the essays were incredibly moving, while a few others didn’t quite work for me though they were well-written. I just don’t tend to pick up short fiction or non-fiction that often, and when I do, […]



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