Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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jeverett15

33 years old. Lifelong New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Where It All Began

Carrie by Stephen King

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There’s not a lot to say about reading Carrie because everyone already knows the story. I did and I hadn’t even the seen either of the movie adaptations. Carrie is bullied at school because she her strict religious upbringing has left her a near-total outcast from normal teenage society. When she gets her long-delayed first period during a post-gym class shower, she freaks out because she thinks that she’s bleeding to death. The other girls think this is hilarious and mock Carrie by throwing sanitary napkins at her and shouting “Plug it up!” What the girls in the shower don’t […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Queen, Tangerine, Kind of a Bore

The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen

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The Chinese Orange Mystery is the perfect ammunition for people who don’t like mysteries. It goes all-in on all of the most annoying tropes of mystery novels, the ones that drive non-fans nuts. The characters are paper-thin, the dialogue is stilted and almost entirely expository, the plotting is entirely consumed by the puzzle without any consideration of the reality of murder. The detective, Ellery Queen, is an insufferable fop who refuses to ever disclose what he is thinking or who he suspects of the crime. The authors, writing under their protagonist’s name as a pseudonym, have the nerve to interrupt […]

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6/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Stranger King

Revival by Stephen King

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A six-year-old boy playing with his toy soldiers in the front yard is interrupted by a visitor, the new minister at the family church. The Rev. Charles Jacobs is bright and energetic, with his pretty wife and young son completing a picture-perfect family. The six-year-old, Jamie Morton, will become enthralled by Jacobs and his twin passions, for God and electricity. Conducting youth service in the church basement, Rev. Jacobs spices up his scripture lessons with his various electrical toys and experiments, including a toy Jesus that can be made to walk across the water. Jacobs and Jamie both lose their […]

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6/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

The Sherlock of East Long Beach

Righteous by Joe Ide

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Righteous, Joe Ide’s second novel to feature Isaiah (“IQ”) Quintabe, follows the neighborhood detective as he continues the investigation into his brother’s murder while also being dragged by an old friend into a dangerous new case. When his dead brother’s girlfriend Sarita calls him out of the blue IQ knows she must need something. It turns out her sister Janine is in terrible trouble out in Las Vegas, owing money to a dangerous loan shark whose already threatened her boyfriend. When Janine and her boyfriend decide in desperation to steal information on her father’s clients, they set in a motion […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

The Great Pretender

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

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The first Vonnegut book I read was Slaughterhouse Five. I was 14 and a friend of mine was reading it and back then I couldn’t stand the idea that any of my friends might be better read than I was so I had to run out and get a copy. I read it faster than seems possible now, and within a few years I had read everything else Vonnegut published, all the novels, the short story collections, his essays, everything. He’s the only author for whom I’ve read their collected letters. When people ask me who my favorite author is, […]

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5/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Abnormally Good

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Somebody saw me carrying Sally Rooney’s new novel, Normal People, and asked me what it was about. In the moment I was a little stymied. This person was just looking to make casual conversation in an elevator, not hear my detailed analysis. I wound up just telling him it was about a rich girl and a working-class boy and their on-again, off-again relationship. Despite being true, that’s woefully inadequate. So here’s what Normal People is about: It’s about all the ways we hurt other people and ourselves. It’s about miscommunications and misunderstandings. It’s about betrayal. It’s about love and how […]

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5/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Psycho Killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est?

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

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Dorothy B. Hughes was a popular crime writer of the 1940s and 1950s, perhaps the best female crime writer of her day and, based on the prose and psychological complexity on display in this slim volume, very much the equal of her better-known male peers. A very perceptive afterword written by the mystery novelist Megan Abbot does a better job elucidating the feminist aspects of the book than I could hope to, so let me just say that In A Lonely Place is a necessary corrective to any reader who thinks of noir as a boys’ club. Hughes’s novel centers […]

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4/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

44 Days

The Damned United by David Peace

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In 1974 the defending champion Leeds United needed a new manager as their legendary coach Don Revie was leaving to take over the English national team. In a shocking move Leeds hired Brian Clough, an outspoken critic of Leeds and their style of play. After alienating the players, the fans, and his bosses, Clough was sacked after only 44 days. The Damned United is David Peace’s novelized version of this time period. Using artistic license to imagine Clough’s state of mind during this ordeal and frequently flashing back to Clough’s earlier life, Peace attempts to provide a comprehensive portrait. Though […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |


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