jason mott – Cannonball Read 17

A selection of books from the last several months

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry

Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong

June 26, 2024 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I’ve been pretty terrible this year. I haven’t been reading very much, and what little reading I have done hasn’t inspired much writing. So I’m just going to throw these reviews into a box, just to remind myself that I like doing this. Y: The Last Man (Vol. 1) (3 stars) Set in a post-apocalyptic America where all mammals with a Y-chromosome (including sperm and embryos) suddenly and simultaneously die – except for Yorick Brown and his pet monkey, Ampersand. What’s left is a world […]

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Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

January 31, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“In the corner of the small living room of the small country house at the end of the dirt road beneath the Carolina sky, the dark-skinned five-year-old boy sat with his knees pulled to his chest and his small, dark arms wrapped around his legs and it took all he had to contain the laughter inside the thrumming cage of his chest.” This novel won the National Book Award in 2021 and at times is a soaring book and at other time is confounding, especially […]

Death is only the beginning of the reunion you did not know you wanted

July 18, 2016 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“It will stay between us, just you and me. I can even turn off the recorder if you want. But I have to have your answer. I have to know what you want. I have to know if you want to keep him.” “No,” Harold said. “Not for all the world. But what choice do I have?” I watched the first few episodes of the ABC TV show Resurrection a few years back starring Red Foreman and the other Eric Foreman so the plot of The Returned was […]

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