Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The scorn is as high as an elephant’s eye…

1922 by Stephen King

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1922 is a novella by Stephen King. It centers around a small family trying to run a farm in Nebraska: Wilf, Arlette, and their child Henry (who prefers to go by Hank, pleaseandthankyou). The story is written through the eyes of Wilf, who is making an end-of-life confession about the events of the titular year. As he tells it, his wife Arlette owned 100 acres of pristine farming land adjoining the family lot, and she was hell bent on selling it to a slaughterhouse company. […]

Rocky Mountain Why?

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

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When you’re as big a name as Stephen King, they really will just let you publish anything. The Colorado Kid is purportedly a mystery novel, but it determinedly disavows the conventions of the genre. What it actually is, is a tease. The novel takes the format of a conversation between two old newspaper hands at a local weekly paper on an island off Maine and their young female intern. They’ve just dispatched a nosy Boston Globe reporter who was looking for fodder for some kind […]

“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

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In one word: Tension Cannonball Read Bingo: Dough As I’m rounding third and heading for home with only hours left to complete the Cannonball Read Bingo challenge, I’m at the point of the endeavor where I’m working to shoehorn in things that I’ve already read to the squares I have left. It’s a delicate dance and I didn’t think I’d find a good entry for one of the few spaces left on my bingo card. But here came this big meaty Stephen King book that […]

“I was the kid with the shackle clamped around his wrist:” King’s Latest Doorstopper

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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I’ve read almost all of the King oeuvre so was excited to see this at 30% off at Target. He’s known as a master storyteller for a reason, and I sped through this in a few days. Over the last few years he’s been mainly playing around with crime novels and thrillers, so this pastiche/homage to classic fairy tales and America’s foundational genre writers like Burroughs, Lovecraft, and Baum was an interesting change of pace. He’s only really written one other fantasy-type novel (Eyes of […]

Skeleton Crew

The Mist by Stephen King

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

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The Mist – 4/5 I’ve read and reread The Mist a number of times, mostly separate from the rest of the stories in this collection. I often found that once I was done with it, given that it’s over 100 pages, I was kind of spent. I also found, that especially with horror stories and sci-fi stories etc, that audiobook versions are so so so much better for me. The Mist also works a lot differently because it’s built more like a Stephen King novel […]

Fairy Tale

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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I recently started dreaming again. Remember back in the early days of the pandemic, when “Covid dreams” were a thing? It was one of many times that I felt I was having an opposite experience of the pandemic. I had always dreamed complex and vivid dreams but once Covid started, my dreams stopped. I’ve had short periods where I didn’t seem to dream as much but for nearly two years, I don’t remember a single dream. I didn’t realize how much this affected me until […]



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