hank green – Cannonball Read 17

May-July Leftovers

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

City of Dreams by Don Winslow

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright

Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins

Tripwire by Jack Reacher

Baby Moll by John Farris

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Boyle

The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

X by Davey Davis

Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship by Harvey Araton

The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín

Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen

The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham

Ex Machina Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan

Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite

Straight Cut by Madison Smartt Bell

The Crust on Its Uppers by Derek Raymond

That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Spenser Confidential by Ace Atkins

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

Weyward by Emilia Hart

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel by Ellen Raskin

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

July 30, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

I usually do these at the end of the month but then I went through a big reading slump March-May. And then I roared back but realized I was behind. So apologies for this being so long. There Will Be Fire **** A good, readable text on a moment in history I knew little about. Even after reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, I still had a lot of problem keeping track of all the socio-political dynamics so it’s good that Rory Carroll makes it accessible […]

“It might be that saving the world is idiotically simple. Maybe we just need to connect and care for one another.” #CBRBingo – Shelfie

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2) by Hank Green

September 4, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I give this beautiful eyesore of a book five stars. Well, 4.5 rounded up. I kind of don’t know what to say about this book! It was a lot! And, honestly, I liked the first book in this duology (3.5 stars worth), but it didn’t blow my socks off or anything. This one kind of did. I think there was a huge jump in quality here, but also a huge jump in scale. There was a focus on April in the first one that kept […]

Is it any wonder I reject you first?

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

May 12, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This book is possibly the most relatable treatise on fame and the corrupting influence of needing approval, a subject near and dear to my heart. It is also a book about a giant alien robot. I love that both of those things are true. April May is a hipster art-school graduate working in web design who stumbles across a giant robot sculpture in New York and, transfixed by its oddness, calls her friend to create a video of it for fun. She interviews “Carl,” the […]

“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.”

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

January 8, 2020 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

Thank you for recommending this one, vel veeter! I’d never tried Hank Green before, but this book was a lot of fun to read and I’m excited to see there’s a sequel in the works. “When you’re faced with something you don’t understand, I think the most natural thing but also the least interesting thing you can be is afraid.” April May stumbles across something absolutely remarkable one night: a 10 foot tall statue that looks like a Transformer, standing on a street in New […]

Well sometimes, nothing.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

November 24, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So given that I didn’t know John Green was a thing until about 2015, it’s funny to me for John Green’s brother to also be as much of a thing. In certain worlds, at least. In some ways this does read like, what if John Green wrote a book solely for adults. But also, I think this book is a lot of fun and better than it probably has any right to be, and really smart at various times. In it, April May is leaving […]

Where have I seen this plot before?!?!

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

January 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

Stop me if you’ve hear this before: mysterious giant metallic objects, robot/sculptures in this this case, suddenly appear all over the world and humanity at first freaks out, then adjusts. Upon further study, the unknowable objects, named Carls here, are revealed to have impossible properties, and thus maybe are not from Earth. Cue alien invasion debate/panic. A hero, April May in this case, who likely had something to do with the first contact believes that the Carls are not threatening, and works to figure out […]

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