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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England of the Blind

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

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Bill Masen wakes up in the hospital on the day the bandages are set to be removed from his eyes only to discover that there is no one coming to help. The call button does nothing, nor does screaming at the top of his lungs. Eventually, Bill removes the bandages himself to find that his vision has returned, but the world as he knew it has completely changed. A meteor shower the night before has seemingly left everyone who saw it permanently blinded. Now, they […]

The Problems of Two Lonely People

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

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Insert Roger Ebert’s review of North here. Seriously, there ought to be a law against writing a novel this long (nearly 700 pages) and this mediocre. Kiran Desai’s long-awaited novel made many awards shortlists and “Best of 2025” pieces, including President Obama’s, but reading it was excruciating. Of the novel’s many, many characters, none of them are likable or compelling, which is honestly kind of an achievement in its own right. Sonia and Sunny are both Indians who have gone to the United States for […]

You Can Check Out Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

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Let me state a couple of my biases upfront because they cut against this book and I think you should know how much salt to take my opinion with. First, I listened to this one as an audiobook. As a relatively new listener to audiobooks, I’m still calibrating the precise impact the format has on my enjoyment of a novel, but in general it seems harder for me to invest in fiction when I listen to it as opposed to reading it. Second, I had […]

War Movies

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann

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Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director is a highly fictionalized account of the Austrian filmmaker G.W. Pabst, a cinematic innovator who made incredible movies in Germany during the Weimar Republic, struck out in Hollywood, and found himself trapped in Germany at the outbreak of World War II. Pabst was coerced into making movies under the Nazi regime, trying to maintain his artistry and avoid compromising his humanity as much as possible. Kehlmann takes a panoramic approach to telling his version of Pabst’s story. In addition to chapters […]

Love is in the Cards

Heart the Lover by Lily King

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I don’t remember a ton about Writers and Lovers, Lily King’s prior novel featuring the protagonist Casey Peabody. Heart the Lover starts before the events of Writers and Lovers and ends after, making it sort of a prequel and sequel in one. At the start, Casey is a university student, majoring in English and working her way through college after giving up her scholarship by quitting the golf team. She meets two brainy, literary boys in Sam and Yash, best friends who live together in […]

Don’t Let ‘Em Tell You that the Book is Always Better than the Movie

Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

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The shadow of the Best Picture-winning movie adaptation looms large over this novel, as does the specter of McMurtry’s much better novels, like Lonesome Dove. Terms of Endearment is the story of Aurora Greenway, a widow nearing 50 who derives most of her enjoyment in life from three pursuits: driving her various suitors to distraction with her confounding, contradictory personality, meddling in her maid Rosie’s marraige to a brutal truck driver, and picking away at her daughter Emma’s insecurities. Emma is recently married to a […]



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