Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Looking forward to more from this author

The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey

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CBR12 BINGO: Debut BINGO (Diagonal): Money, Debut, Yellow, Pandemic, Music Minor spoilers. I thought it would be a struggle coming up with a book to read for the Debut BINGO category, but I was fortunate enough to see a CBR Facebook post with some great suggestions. I took note of The Animals at Lockwood Manor and thought, “A mystery that combines natural history with an early World War II England setting? This has my name all over it.” Shout out to whoever posted the suggestion. […]

What are the readers on Goodreads smoking?

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

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CBR12 BINGO: Fresh Start BINGO: Red, Gateway, Fresh Start, Cannonballer Says, Money Storm Front reads like a novel created buy a guy who played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons as a teen and always dreamed about writing his own fantasy series. And if that’s true, more power to Jim Butcher for fulfilling his dream. I respect the effort and the ambition. Sadly, that doesn’t change the fact that the result is just not good. The premise of this series is appealing enough. Harry Dresden […]

How to Build and Lose a $9 Billion Corporation While Endangering People’s Lives in 30 Easy Steps

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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CBR12 BINGO: Money Be a near-genius-level Stanford dropout with a revolutionary idea. (Say, performing dozens of different types of blood tests on a drop of blood on a machine that can fit into people’s homes.) Impress the hell out of potential investors with your charisma, intelligence, and salesmanship. Recruit your staff from the best tech firms Silicon Valley has to offer. Give your company a snappy, tech-sounding name. Pack your board with illustrious individuals, including former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Secretary of State […]

“The future isn’t a warning my friend, it’s a promise.”

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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CBR12 BINGO: Cannonballer Says I decided to read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle for the “Cannonballer Says” BINGO square after reading Narfna’s review. Or rather, I should say, after skimming Narfna’s review, because as soon as I saw the basic premise and the spoiler alerts, I averted my eyes and decided to go no-contact on any reviews until after I had read it. I’m glad I did; yet here I am with the impossible task of describing a book I really enjoyed without giving […]

This is your brain on music

Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

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CBR12 BINGO: Music BINGO: Red, How-To, UnCannon, Roaring 20s, Music A 42-year old orthopedic surgeon is hit by lightning and suddenly develops an insatiable passion for piano music. An elderly man with semantic amnesia bursts into song at the slightest provocation. An elderly woman has lived her life unable to “hear” music, which manifests itself to her mind as an intolerable cacophony. These are just a handful of the real individuals we meet in Musicopophilia, Oliver Sacks’s exploration of the interactions between music and the […]

Makes me wish I knew more about jazz

Jazz by Toni Morrison

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CBR12 BINGO: The Roaring 20’s Have you ever gone to the movies, and as the credits roll, you can’t say that you loved the film  or that you hated it, you just kind of think, “hmmm,” but for days after you find yourself pondering it, and visions of certain scenes and themes invade your thoughts, so eventually you come to realize that you’ve experienced something special? Jazz is like that. During the first few chapters, I appreciated the beauty of the language but couldn’t help […]



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