Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Chris's Reviews:

Round Two with the Crew of the Pufferfish

Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines

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Hines’ second outing with the hero Janitors involves Mops and crew going back to Earth. There are references to Farscape (living ships), Willard Scott, and sports (as well as possible current US politics). I like the sports in this book. It is also a love novel to books and libraries. While I didn’t find the novel as funny the first one in the series, it is still an excellent book. In part, this is because, like Terry Pratchett, Jim C Hines’ heroes are those that […]

Out March 12

Truth in Our Times by David E. McCraw

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Disclaimer: The publisher sent me an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. I am also a subscriber to the Times. On the day I finished reading this ARC, the President of the United States called the New York Times an “enemy of the people,” and the Times itself carried an article about a reporter being detained and kicked out of Egypt. Additionally, the President tweeted support of a lawsuit against the Washington Post. And a supreme court judges wants the court to […]

Death and Destruction on the Thames in London by Anthony Galvin

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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book via Netgalley courtesy of the publisher. Gavin’s book presents the history of the Thames in terms of flooding, shipwrecks, and other issues. At times, one wonders about the use of the phrase “on the Thames”, there is a bit much on the Great Fire of London, some on terrorist attacks, and a bit on Jack the Ripper. Yet, the book is good. There is a ton of detail here. Galvin includes a list and brief history of […]

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Poetry that is beautiful

Thrall by Natasha Trethewey

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If you like poetry, you should read Natasha Trethewey. These poems are, on one hand, about her relationship to her father, and, on the other hand, the position that black people have been too often placed in by white people. Thrall is an interesting word choice because it means being in someone’s power. There is the power that family holds over us. There is the hold that the art that inspired some of these poems had on Trethewey. There is the sense of ownership that […]

Good Collection

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer

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There is a misnomer on the cover of this book. Some short stories in this volume have not been commissioned for the book. Several of them have appeared in various magazines and collections (some have appeared over a decade ago). This is okay, for this is the first time that they are all collected together and I hadn’t read any of them before. The purpose of this collection in part, according to Bernheimer, is to present fairy tales as an acceptable source of literature, at […]

Good Historical fiction

Lily's Story by Don Guttteridge

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Disclaimer: I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Before the giveaway the book had been on TBR shelf. I first read Gutteridge a few years when I brought an omnibus edition of his first three Marc Edwards mysteries. I enjoyed them, and next time I was in Canada, I tried to find more print copies of his work, but the only ones I found where the three I had already. It was a joy to win this in a giveaway and […]



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