Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Appreciating an attractive middle-aged woman is one of the great luxuries in life.

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

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She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all. ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance Sometimes when I’m with you. I remember the things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind. And it’s really a gift, […]

An interesting premise, but not one I cared about enough to continue

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez

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Did not finish It is 1981 in Buenos Aires. Juan and his young son Gaspar embark on a cross-country trip to his late wife’s family compound. It is clear from the beginning that Juan is ill and is still suffering the after-effects of recent heart surgery and the sudden loss of his wife Rosario. This is no ordinary road trip. He is struggling to support his son, who does not understand what is really happening and is traumatized by his mother’s death and his father’s […]

How Can You Resist This Title?

The Dead Girls' Class Trip: Selected Stories by Anna Seghers

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Jans i Seghers was a German/East German author, writing from 1925 to 1965.  The stories in this collection are of two varieties – realistic and very somber, and magical realism or mythic tales.  Some of the first sort weren’t bad, but I really enjoyed those of the second sort. The title story is one of the second type.  The narrator is traveling through a German village when gradually she begins to remember a field trip her class took here, years ago, before the war.  As […]



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