Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Power Broker – Robert Caro (1974)

The Power Broker by Robert Caro

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Cbr13Bingo – Cityscape! I didn’t grow up in New York and I’ve only been a handful of times to the city. I spent several years living in Central Tier, where some of the legends of the city don’t quite permeate, but I suppose I still experienced my share of Robert Moses projects. Robert Moses held around a dozen different posts in and around New York City and New York state from the early 1920s through the late 1960s. If you’ve basically stepped foot in New […]

Larry McMurtry duo

Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry

Loop Group by Larry McMurtry

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CBR13Bingo – Free! (Taking full advantage of the library system to get audiobooks of mediocre books by a writer I like!) Telegraph Days – 3/5 Stars Another of McMurty’s novels that takes on real figures and writes a novel around them. Nellie Courtwright and her brother Jackson have moved to the town of Rio Blanca (near, but not too near Dodge City Kansas) after finding their father dead from an apparent suicide. She’s 22 and her brother is just 17 and they’re the last two […]

I think this is the first pre-apocalypse book I’ve ever read

A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

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CBR BINGO – Book Club Admittedly, I am getting a jump on this book club reading. My local bookstore, Brazos Bookstore, has chosen this book as it’s October book club selection and will be inviting author Lydia Millet to a virtual Q&A and discussion. This book was available at my library right before I was going on vacation for a week, so I had to snatch it up. Evie and her brother Jack are two kids out of many whose families vacation together each summer. […]

Some of her best friends are cisgender…..

Gender Pirates: An Assigned Male Comics by Sophie Labelle

The Best of Assigned Male by Sophie Labelle

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cbr13bingo Rep (as Stephie is autistic, plus transgender people telling their own stories in a positive light, and not just about their transitioning or having transitioned, are not seen as much. Stephie is a normal kid getting through school, friendships, babysitting, growing up, dating and more.) If you ever find yourself reading anything by Sophie Labelle’s Assigned Male comics know this: the greatest thing and the worst thing about them is the same thing: They are in your face. They make you uncomfortable. They make […]

I have never loved garlic so much in my life!!!!!

Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen

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cbr13bingo The Wilds  This is one of the DARNDEST CUTEST BOOKS I HAVE READ THIS YEAR. I picked Garlic and the Vampire up July 13, 2021 and would have read the entire thing right then and there if I had not been at work.  I had read a bit about it and thought it sounded cute but was hoping it would live up to the hype of the pre-publication reviews, the promotions, and the fact it just sounded so darn good (after all, hype something […]

Respect the Animal, Dammit.

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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Bingo square, Fauna I spent a week in Central Florida (pre-Disney era) one summer, many decades back, when I was 9 years old.  It was memorable.  From the gators roaming the backyards in the evening, to the constant state of sogginess I was in, even as a child, to the amazing show at Weeki Wachee wherein young women with amazing breath-holding skills played at being mermaids in a giant tank.  All this is to say that this book could only have been written about that […]



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