Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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ingres77

I've been doing this since 2015, and though I'm not going to read a hundred books a year, I plan on doing this for the foreseeable future. I also maintain the Cannonball Read database, and make infrequent updates on our reading habits.

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Perhaps nothing is certain in this world, but at least we can believe in something.

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

Elevation by Stephen King

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Killing Commendatore (4 stars) There were parts of this book that brought me back to my favorite parts of 1Q84, but this book doesn’t equal that one in terms of quality, spirit, or impact. Which doesn’t make this a bad book – by any measure – but I don’t think it’s amongst Murakami’s greatest works. The protagonist of this book is unnamed. He’s an artist who’s fallen into portrait painting to make a living. His wife abruptly tells him that she wants a divorce, and he takes a spontaneous trip around the country before finally settling in the house of […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

It’s unsurprising that I struggled to reach the minimum length for this review, given this is all short stories. Also, unrelated: Cannonball!

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My reviewing (and reading) has really taken a nose-dive this year due to work, life, and time management changes. And, with the disruption caused by Hurricane Florence, there’s been a commensurate dip in time spent working on the Cannonball Read database. But – thanks to the indomitable support of MsWas – I’ve been able to make massive strides in this latter project, at least. So this review is cheating, a bit. All of these stories were in Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual collection of stories, but I didn’t set out to read the book, itself. I only picked a few stories that […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

A collection of minor disappointments.

The Dragonbone Chair, The Japanese Lover, Legend, Lovecraft Country by Tad Williams, Isabel Allende, David Gemmell, Matt Ruff

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The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams (3 stars) I read this close enough to 20 years ago for me not to want to think too long on it. I was a teenager, and deeply enraptured by fantasy – particularly the weighty tomes that couldn’t quite fit in my back pocket. The kind of books that resonated with a heavy thud when dropped onto a table. The kind of books that probably exacerbated my natural awkwardness around girls. I devoured this book, and its sequels. So, returning to it as an adult – after having read numerous books that were influenced […]

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12/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Sometimes, rarely, you get precisely what you want in life. This is one of those times.

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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For reasons I can’t fully explain, this book has always held talismanic powers for me. I’ve walked passed it numerous times in the book store, always intending to read it, but never buying it. Until, one day, I did. But then it sat on my shelf unread, collecting dust, and taking up space in a room infrequently visited but never entirely free of my interest. I went on to read other Murakami books, and loved many of them. But Norwegian Wood has been a consistently lit, though dim, beacon in my literary aspirations. I don’t know what I thought it […]

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12/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Welcome to the modern world

Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel & Roger G Charles

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I was in the sixth grade when the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. I was a little too young to be fully aware of Waco, Ruby Ridge, or the first World Trade Center attack, and, as an army brat, while the first Gulf War affected my family personally, I only really saw it as something that might take my father from me. So the 1995 terrorist attack was the first real event that captured my interest – and not least because I grew up in Oklahoma. But the intervening 23 years has left this event […]

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12/15/2018 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

Nine lost civilizations and one completely mythical city

Lost Civilizations: 10 Societies That Vanished Without a Trace by Michael Rank

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At barely a hundred pages, Lost Civilizations isn’t a hefty tome, by any definition. It’s the kind of book you find in the discount bin at Barnes & Noble. It’s the kind of book my uncle would get me when I was twelve, because he knew I liked history but had no idea which books I had, or which subjects, specifically, I was interested in. Which is fine. There’s a place for those books. But I’m usually looking for more than that. These books were not a deep dive into any of the civilizations discussed, which is disappointing because there […]

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10/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

I came for JK Rowling, but I’m staying for the characters

Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

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This is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series, and if you enjoyed the previous three books, I’m guessing you’ll also like this one. At the end of the day, you probably don’t need me to sell this book to you, but it doesn’t disappoint, given all that came before. Lethal White picks up almost immediately after Career of Evil, which ended with Robin marrying her piece of shit boyfriend, Matthew. So we get to spend a good bit of time seeing how that plays out. Strike’s newfound fame from catching the Shackleford Ripper has brought in a lot […]

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10/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

I intended to read all the Star Trek books….and made it through 12 of my planned 46

Star Trek novels by various

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I’ve been a fan of Star Trek since I was a child. The Original Series and the Next Generation were TV staples in my house; I devoured every episode, and watched them numerous times. My enjoyment continued into Deep Space 9, but died with Voyager and Enterprise, before being renewed again with the advent of Netflix, which allowed me to re-watch every episode from every series in the correct order (though, I still think Voyager and Enterprise are fairly weak shows). But until last year, I had never read a Star Trek book. So one of my goals this year […]

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9/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:41 |


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