Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Because she wanted to

The Lobster Lady by Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs

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My favorite part of the story of Virginia Oliver is not that she was 102 (now 103) years-old and still lobstering during the course of the book. Nor was it about her colorful life. And it was not even that she had to have seven stitches in her finger after being bitten by a crab (wonder how many the crab got!). Nope, it was that she put on her lipstick and earrings to go out fishing for lobsters.  Now that’s a Lady! Alexandra S. D. […]

Two Comics and a Horror

Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughn, et al.

Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and Dave Mazzucchelli

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

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Read two comics and re-read a horror classic. All good in their various ways, two not living up to the potential of greatness and one with said potential… Paper Girls, Volume 1 A lot of folks warned that this one would be confusing but being a huge “Saga” fan, I was willing to give Brian K. Vaughn the benefit of the doubt. And it paid off. It’s a good table setter for what promises to be a good story. I liked the characters and, I’ve […]

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Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman

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“Hey, it’s John Hodgman!” John Hodgman used to spend a considerable amount of time on TV. He’s played, in his words, all sorts of “sexless weirds” in TV and commercials alike. He spent time on The Daily Show as, among other things, a deranged billionaire. He left his Daily Show role behind as Trump rose to power, as there is nothing funny anymore about criminally insane rich people.  He isn’t spending too much time on TV at the moment; it’s been years since he was the PC of […]

Surprisingly Serious Truths from a Seriously Silly Guy

Vacationland by John Hodgman

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John Hodgman is many things: Daily Show correspondent, a “PC”, podcast guest and host, internet judge, former literary agent, and generally droll New England weirdo. He wrote several books prior to  Vacationland, and all of those books were collections of “facts”. I say “facts”, as that is what he might say as well: Hodgman (with the help of Jonathan Coulton) created three full books of completely made-up facts that he presented as being VERY true. They are a weird delight, and sometimes they are correct, […]

Delightful Banter in Mid-Coastal Maine

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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Evvie Drake Starts Over is a delightful, witty, and charming book. I stayed up late at night to read it, which is the sign of a good read. My streak of reading romance novels continues, though this time I decided to read something from the modern era. Evvie Drake has lived in a small mid-coastal Maine town her whole life. She married her high school sweetheart, but the marriage is not a good one. In the opening pages, Evvie decides to leave her husband Tim. […]

You can’t get there from here

Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron

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For the past few years, my husband and I have made a concerted effort to be a family that goes away for week-long summer vacation. So we save up all year and spend the beginning of July in the sleepy Maine beach town my husband grew up going to as a child and teenager. I love it but each time we go I’m struck by how no matter how much we try to explore during each visit we can only scratch the surface of all the […]



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