Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“A curtain was drawn back in every man’s inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work.”

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

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First things first, this book is a slow burn. I wish I would have known that going in, I would have started it sooner and read it over a longer time frame. The first half meanders along and nothing seems to be connected, and getting to know the main players is not a quick process. If you’re prepared for that going in, you will probably end up liking this book. And about halfway through, it picks up quite a bit, and keeps getting stronger until […]

So Much More Shade Than I Remembered (and I thought I remembered a decent amount)

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This was a reread for me though it’s been more than a decade since my last read.  Instead of going through the plot since I think most people are familiar with the bare bones of the plot, I’m just going to share a few random thoughts I had while listening to this novel. So doing Austen as an audio book is interesting.  It was obvious when reading Persuasion that Anne Elliot was the only one with any common sense and that everyone around her was […]

Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Sense and Sensibility

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A couple of years ago for CBR6, I re-read Jane Eyre, and because I was overwhelmed with the task of writing a review for such a classic book, I decided to get weird and write the review in the form of letters to the characters. Since then, with an eventual plan to re-read all of Jane Austen’s books, I’ve had it in the back of my mind that I’d do the same with as many future classic books that I could. So. This is me […]



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