Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.”

Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

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Finally, a book about the greatest film of our generation! What film, you may ask? What film does Richard Ayoade venerate, dissect, cling to, and live for? Richard Ayoade; the author of several books on film, director and writer of several films, host of a delightful travel show, and beloved cast member/co-creator of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (and many other things) has written an entire book about the forgettable 2003 Gwenyth Paltrow rom-com View From the Top. Yes, View From the Top; the movie where Mike Myers […]

Fractured Fairytale

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I finished my last book while I was on vacation and didn’t have anything else on deck so a skimmed through the offerings on Kindle Prime and stumbled across this fun little book. It was a great vacation read. It is about Ella Hannaford, a very serious young women who is an eco-architect. Her mom died when she was young and now her very loving, but hard drinking, dad is getting remarried to a woman who is very… passionate about how she wants things to […]

“Do you consider me morally reprehensible for inadvertently selling my wife to the Devil?”

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“It occurs to me with a shock that he may not like books.  I dismiss the thought as soon as it enters my head as too preposterous to be borne.  Not like books!  I cannot believe it of a fellow man.” This book is the driest of the dry of humor and I loved it.  I normally try to do my own plot summary for reviews, but I think that whomever wrote the blurb for this one did an excellent job, so I’m cribbing it […]

Get Bent, Taxman

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Oh, I loved this book. And seeing now that the cover was illustrated by Edward Gorey (I read it on my Kindle), I love it even more. Thus Was Adonis Murdered is the first book in a mystery series that revolves around a group of young barristers and their older mentor-type person, Hilary Tamar, who narrates the books. In this one, one of the barristers, Julia, driven to near-poverty by Inland Revenue (England’s version of the IRS, I assume), decides she might as well splurge […]

A Nice and Accurate Review of the Apocalypse

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Quick what is your favorite book?  Did one pop into your mind immediately or did you need to add a few qualifying adjectives to narrow it down to just one title? Good Omens is usually my go-to answer when someone asks me what my favorite book is.  No book is my favorite, as in preferred above all else, but Good Omens is closest.  It holds a special place in my heart for being the tome that was my entry into a better class of fantasy/science […]

A post industrial revolution British novel that is disgustingly entertaining

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Twenty-third book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. I took this book up on a whim and I’m really glad that I did. This is my first Gerald Kersh book and I can safely say that it won’t be my last. After a few pages of struggle to get used to the Cockneye slang and the manner of speaking of the natives of Fowler’s End, this book was a good roller coaster ride; some introspection interspersed with the antics of some really weird characters […]



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