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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. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ingres77's Quick Questions interview.)

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Taking a chance can pay off

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

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There’s a part of me – a big part of me – that loves hunting through discount tables and used book stores, looking for treasures long abandoned by people unknown, or those never discovered and left to be sold for bargain prices. But there’s another part of me that is saddened by the amazing things people pour their heart into that never get discovered, and are left to be found by people willing to gamble a few dollars on forgotten and unwanted books. The Storied […]

I’ve read 18 books this year. 7 of them were read in the last week.

Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang

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I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts at work, and reading Harry Potter with my son at home. That hasn’t left a lot of space in my life for reading for me. I’ve kind of made up for that over the last week, but I’m still quite a bit behind where I should be this year. I think I haven’t generally read a lot of contemporary fiction because it seems to often consist of bad things happening to broken people. Even looking at the […]

Surprisingly modern for stories written over 30 years ago.

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

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Izumi Suzuki is a bit of a counter-cultural cult icon in Japan, though I’d never heard of her before reading this book. Born in 1949, she arose in a society itching to break away from American occupation and western influence. This was the era of Yukio Mishima, actor, model, and poet who attempted to overthrow a right-wing, ultra-nationalist overthrow of the government before failing and committing seppuku. The ’60s were a tumultuous time in Japan, as they were in many parts of the world. In […]

A different kind of horror

Audition by Ryu Murakami

Piercing by Ryu Murakami

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Audition (1997) – 4 stars I think I talked about this in a past review, but I was a huge movie buff in college. My girlfriend at the time and I particularly loved Japanese horror, and this was the height of that particular genre, with Ringu, Ju-on, and a slew of other movies. One of the better films of the era was a quiet little movie called Audition. I loved it so much, I bought the book and first read it close to twenty years […]

A perfect little novel

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

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Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, the son of Boomer parents, I collected baseball cards. It was a hobby my father and I enjoyed together. Like many of his generation, my father amassed a collection of cards that, today, would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. And, like many of his generation, they were all thrown away when he joined the military and moved away from home. Trying to rekindle that magic, as many parents do, he started buying them again when he […]

A nice anthology of mildly gruesome stories

Revenge by Yoko Ogawa

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This is an anthology of interconnected short stories that takes place in Tokyo in an indeterminate time, but presumably sometime in the 1990s. Each of the stories (of which there are eleven) is from the perspective of a different character, and shares some commonality to the story that immediately precedes it. In “Afternoon at the Bakery”, for instance, the narrator enters a bakery for some strawberry shortcake. It’s her son’s birthday who (it is revealed) is now dead. That is what his last birthday cake […]



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