Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A battleship… Uh oh, sharks.

Gyo by Junji Ito

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

The Test by Sylvain Neuvel

The Hero by Lee Child

Classic Krakauer by Jon Krakauer

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

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Like a lot of you, I filled up on library books for the closures and hunkering down. My library announced that not only are they closing, that fines are waived, and nothing is due until the end of March, that also their dropboxes are closed. Who knows what that means, but for me it likely means I will read all the books I got, instead of sorting through and figuring it out one by one. Anyway, here’s my first chunk of reviews from all of […]

Deuce Ex Machina

Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2) by Lee Child

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I majored in English. Read some of the finest books known to man. I also like good food. Sometimes, though, I want McDonalds and Jack Reacher. You know it’s not High Art, but it doesn’t have to be. You don’t want it to be. You want it to be a McChicken and a milkshake and Jack Reacher beating the shit out of a white supremacist: it’s just really easy to wolf down.  Child doesn’t waste much time dropping us in the middle of some nefarious […]

Tom Cruise, though? REALLY?

The Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child

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I hate people who are good at everything.  I mean, doesn’t everyone? They are insufferable, whether or not they’re showing off their skills. And in the case of Jack Reacher, he’s doubly insufferable, because he still manages to be a fuck-up.  In this installment – the first one in a very, very long series – Jack Reacher is arrested on suspicion of murder. Having led a vagabond lifestyle after leaving the army, Reacher, on a whim, decides to get off the bus in the small, […]

My original title for this review was “Getting Blingy With It” and I feel like I deserve an award for that or possibly a slap in the face

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child

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GBI Agent Will Trent is working on a cold case: the murder of a sherrif’s deputy in a small Georgia town, twenty-odd years earlier. His most recent lead sends him undercover at Fort Knox, where his alias Jack Phineas Wolfe (no, really), army dropout, is hired to clean the gold. No, that’s what he’s hired to do. For real. Polish gold bars. This is not a euphemism; he’s inside a room with his suspect, polishing bars and getting sweaty. The suspect, by the way, is […]

Episode 1-43: You Are Standing At A Crossroads In The Forest

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/11/22/episode-1-43-you-are-standing-at-a-crossroads-in-the-forest/ Wherein I review: 159. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle 160. Past Tense (Jack Reacher #23) by Lee Child The Mountain Goats and Text-Based RPGs.  What the hell is there not to like?  And choosing your own adventure has become the modus operandi of the Jack Reacher series, and I’m still all in. Also, I’ve fallen hopeless behind in my damn reviews.  Tis the season!

Jack Reacher Gets Schooled

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Lee Child has a formula and most of the time, it’s just the summer (or winter break) read I’m looking for*. However, one of the things I liked about this 2016 Jack Reacher novel was that it wasn’t the usual “Reacher strolls into a small town in middle America and gets into a nest of trouble.” Instead, Child goes back to the 1990’s when Reacher was in the army and constructs a story that involves terrorists of both the Islamic and Nazi persuasion, missing nuclear weapons, […]



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