Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Egypt has been called The Gift of the Nile.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy

Far From Home by Walter Tevis

Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

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CBR12Bingo – Shelfie These three books are not connected in any meaningful way except that I happened to buy all of them earlier in the summer from Thriftbooks and randomly chose to read them at the same time, switching off for a few reasons. Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ended up being a little more boring and dense that I had hoped, so the balance of the Walter Tevis stories helped, and while I really enjoy the Will Cuppy pieces, they are too similar to one another to […]

From high up, fifteen thousand feet above, where the aerial photographs are taken, 4121 Wilson Avenue, the address I know best, is a minuscule point, a point of green

The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom

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CBR12Bingo – Yellow   This is a recently published memoir that is presented as a family history. Sarah Broom grew up in New Orleans East, a community that others would give her looks when she mentioned it to strangers, and as the youngest of twelve children, she tells the story of her grandparents, her parents, her siblings, herself, and the house at the center of their lives. The memoir tells the family history and its strength here is giving us a series of events from […]

No Real Gold Here, Just Dull Rocks with Spraypaint

Gold by Dan Rhodes

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Bingo Review 14: Yellow Gold (aka “shiny yellow”, hence it counts for this square) is something I’ve had sitting around for a while; I picked it up out of a bargain bin at an indie bookstore I like. Basically, Miyuki, whose father was Japanese and mother Welsh, goes on vacation every year for two weeks in January to a small town in Wales and ends up in the local pub a lot. She gets to know some of the regulars and locals who drink there. […]

The Heroines We Wanted in Childhood

Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir & Sarah Anderson

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I’m not usually into graphic novels, but my friend showed up to our weekly DnD game with “Cheshire Crossing,” and was like, ‘you have to read this!’ Being that it was free (hello, #no money bingo square), I did, and was not disappointed. Now, I still haven’t read the Martin, so I didn’t realize who Andy Weir was, but I love Sarah Anderson’s art, and from the start, the cover and all the comics of this graphic novel are gorgeous. Weir’s writer’s note on the first […]

I don’t know what I’m reading but I can’t stop

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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A biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor, a linguist and a psychologist set out to explore, study, and document a mysterious plot of land overrun with a myriad of ecosystems that has shown up on Earth. They are the twelfth expedition to go into this area, dubbed Area X, in an attempt to learn its origins and its purpose. They do not know each other names, just each others roles, in order to keep the focus on the mission. Almost immediately, the expedition falls apart with […]

“Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators …. But they don’t carry it the way victims do.“

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisenger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker

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Cbr12bingo Shelfie This graphic novel geared toward young readers is an eye opening first hand account of the Takei family’s experience in the US’s Japanese internment camps during WWII. World renowned actor George Takei relates his childhood memories of being uprooted and shipped across the country with his family and reveals his subsequent struggle to come to terms with the injustice and trauma of those years. Even though many of us may have heard about the camps before (thanks in part to the hard work […]



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