Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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

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Big Trouble in Little Canada

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie

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Ron Currie takes a big swing right at the start of his 2025 novel, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. The book begins with a prequel spanning 300 years in the life of the Levesque family, Franco-Americans who settle in Waterville, Maine. For generations, the women of the Levesque line encounter brutality, deprivation and struggle, culminating in the hard-bitten Babs Levesque (Dionne is her married name) who takes a courageous but foolhardy stand in 1968 and pays a horrible price for it. After that, […]

Battle Angel

Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

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After a battle, an American WWI unit is perturbed by an awful shrieking coming from the middle of the field. The commander sends five of his most expendable soldiers out to “take care” of the problem, which they all understand means they are to go find the dying soldier and put him out of his misery. But when Private Bagger, an Iowa preacher’s son and career con artist, and Private Arno, an innocent teenager who lied about his age to enlist, stumble upon the source […]

Hitchcock Deserves Better

Rear Window: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age by Jennifer O'Callaghan

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is an unimpeachable masterpiece, as compelling to viewers today as it was seventy years ago when it was first released. With two iconic stars, an ingenious premise, and the guidance of the Master of Suspense himself, it feels like the kind of film that would make for a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of it’s making. Unfortunately, Jennifer O’Callaghan’s attempt at the subject is not such a book. For one thing, you would probably not believe how little of this book, which includes […]

Man on the Run

Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original by Howard Bryant

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I like baseball and I like books, so it only stands to reason that I like books about baseball, too. But I do have reservations. I tend to prefer reading books about the game as a whole over a distinct period of time, or an account of one particular team or season. I’m less enamored of baseball player biographies, like Howard Bryant’s Rickey. They tend to fall into the trap of being repetitively structured, methodically going through a player’s career one season at a time, […]

Empire of Sand

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

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The second Dune novel, the adaptation of which is set to release in theaters this upcoming Christmas season, is a novel which takes place mainly through conversations. Of course, in the world that Frank Herbert has created, conversations can be treacherous, with or without the usage of the Bene Gesserit voice. What Dune Messiah is not, however, is a rollicking good time. Most of the major action takes place offstage, eventually recapped for our benefit in the aftermath by the characters. It’s a frustrating way […]

Rising Tides

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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Dominic Salt and his three children (teenagers Raff and Fen, and their nine-year-old brother Orly) are the last living people on Shearwater Island. Dominic is the caretaker for a research lab and a seed bank housing emergency reserves of seeds for every plant species on Earth, in case of apocalypse. It’s not an idle threat in the world of Charlotte McConaghy’s novel. The waters, always rough, have lately been rising, and are threatening to swallow the island entirely. The lab has been shuttered and the […]



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