Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I read books, watch movies and occasionally make music. Website: tilde.club/~jormis. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: jormis' Quick Questions interview.)

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Celtic Chiaroscuro

The Grey King by Susan Cooper

Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper

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(The previous review for Books I-III in the Dark is Rising series is here: https://cannonballread.com/2020/05/over-sea-under-the-stone-and-the-dark-is-rising-and-greenwitch-jormis/) The last two books in the Dark is Rising series are situated in Wales. In the whole series, 3 books happen in Wales and 2 in Cornwall. So, all are historical Celtic parts (before Saxons and Jutes and Normans came and conquered). In The Grey King, we meet Will Stanton who is recuperating from a liver infection. His parent send him off to Wales and its fresh sea air to […]

Old before I become a god (a.k.a. Hadrien, no slacker)

Memoirs of Hadrien by Marguerite Yourcenar

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There were Five Good Emperors, so they say, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, ruling in what is called the golden era of the Roman empire. What is interesting is that they were not related, rather, from Trajan onward they were adopted heirs. Hadrian (Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, originally Publius Aelius Hadrianus) followed Trajan, during whose reign Rome’s empire was maybe at its largest. Where his predecessor was belligerent, Hadrian seeked a more peaceful reign, negotiated truces, and retreated from some strategically unsound […]

Inherit the Hate

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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Unsurprisingly, my first exposure to Wuthering Heights was Kate Bush’s 1978 single, the namesake to the book. Based on listening to the chorus (never a lyrics listener, it’s the music that matters) you might think the book is romantic: Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy I’ve come home. I’m so cold Let me in-a-your window Maybe Cathy has run away from home to Heathcliff’s abode, situated in the middle of the moors. After letting Cathy in from a window (maybe the door’s broke, anyway it’s just […]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

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Kino, Juana and their baby, Coyotito, live in a shack by the sea. They are indigenous as opposed to the conquerors living in the city nearby. Kino is a pearl diver as his ancestors have for generations. The family scrapes by, barely – they are so poor that Kino and Juana cannot afford to get married, or even have a christening for Coyotito. When Kino wakes up in the early dawn, during cock-crowing, he looks at the stars in the sky and listens to the […]

Plus ça change

The Bromance Bookclub by Lyssa Kay Adams

Les liaisons dangereuses by Chodorlos de Laclos

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The Bromance Bookclub is a preposterous and silly book, with a novel within a novel. It starts as with so many times before: a man alone in a hotel room – “face-planted on the carpet while reaching for the bottle.” This time it’s Gavin Scott, a baseball player in Nashville Legends. Then, someone’s banging the door – his team mates, Delroy Hicks and Yan Feliciano, and a third person, a nightclub owner and a metrosexual Braden Mack. They’ve come to rescue poor Gavin from his […]

Bootstrapping a nation one letter at a time.

The Postman by David Brin

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Gordon Krantz has survived for 16 years after the one-week war which sapped the strength of America and the rest of the world. After the war came a three-year nuclear winter; it’s been colder than normally ever since. He was a soldier during the war, guarding vital food supplied while the world was burning around him and his squad. They failed. Gordon was the only one who survived. Since then he’s been drifting westwards, learning to survive, avoid radiation hot spots, loot like in Fallout […]



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