Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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vel veeter

I want to read more older things and British things this year, and some that are both. Oh and I’ll probably end up reading a bunch of Italian and French writers this year too. I think.

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Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

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I’ve seen Arrival and liked it but didn’t read the story collection it’s drawn from. There’s about ten movies in this book to be made and they should all be very good. There’s two basic kinds of stories in this collection. Very very short ones that explore a singular idea for a few pages and then leave off. These tend to be interesting, but ultimately small and not completely fulfilling. And then there’s longer stories that present a conceit to work through, but also works through the kinds of anxieties that conceit would create for those of us dealing with […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:355 |

I just wanted to do my job.

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

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This is a strong three stars for me. It’s really good in a lot of ways, still feels a little limited for some of the choices and a little thin because of them or what they reveal about the novel, but also succeeds to build a world I am interested in and a story I am invested in. So the novel is almost a perfect Venn diagram of Sara Gran, The Magicians, and The Secret Place by Tana French. Ivy Gamble lives in a world where there’s magic and magic schools, and her twin sister “abandoned” her family to go […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:354 |

Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations.

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann

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This is a three star in the opposite of some of my other three stars. Normally this is the kind of book I would really like — a kind of sassy or interesting young British girl dealing with her friends and family while navigating her own feelings and her growth as a person in the world. And for the most part I did like this book, but it felt like it came up short for me. So like I said, this book is a lot like a lot of other books like it. That sentence sounds kind of dumb, but […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:353 |

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

City of Glass by Paul Auster

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The Locked Room by Paul Auster

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I think I either almost read or tried to read this when I was younger — college aged or so — and for whatever reason didn’t. I kind of wished I had stuck with it, because I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more then. That’s not to say that a) I feel like I have missed out all these years or b) that I happen to like it now. I didn’t exactly like this book, and maybe don’t feel like I have anything to say about the different parts of the series to really indicate why, so […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:352 |

You might as well take your punishment and get it over with.

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammet

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I hate to say it but maybe I just generally don’t particularly like Dashiell Hammet novels. This is my third one this year or second plus one last year, and for whatever reason, I don’t tend to follow them very easily, want to be reading them very much, or enjoy them during or after the process. But this book is about local politics in the most violent of ways. The son of a senator is found dead and the lead in the novel, Ned Beaumont, is asked by the likely implicated local crime lord to disrupt the investigation into the […]

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6/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:349 |

Where was she bound to?

Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

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This a kind of early spy novel (not super early as spy novels go back a long way) but early in the genre kind of spy novel. It was written in 1903 and takes place almost entirely on a small boat in the North and Baltic seas. Our narrator is a young sporting man from England with a background living in continental Europe and speaking German. He enlists or is enlisted by a friend to go on a sporting voyage around the seas and go duck hunting. While out they run aground several times on sandbanks along the slim coast […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:348 |

Martin Beck thought about these things a lot.

Cop Killer by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

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This is the ninth of the Martin Beck mystery/police procedurals written by Maj Slowall and Per Wahloo in the 60s and 70s. They’ve adapted to several different films and tv shows, probably the most famous one, The Laughing Policeman written for Walter Mathau in the early 1970s. I have only read the first of the series besides this one, and they have about the same kind of meta-narrative as say the Harry Hole novels in that events do happen that carry over from book to book but each one has its own kind of bottle novel feel to it. I […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:347 |

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendell

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The ABC Murders – 4/5 Stars This is a great Agatha Christie novel. It’s from 1936 and it’s one of the earliest detective novels I’ve read that tackles the idea of serial killers, pattern killers etc. Hercule Poirot is called out in a letter challenging him to a kind of mental duel. A killer tells him the location of an upcoming murder and challenges him to stop him. Poirot and Captain Hastings take on the challenge with different mindsets. The first murder is a woman, an older shopkeeper named Alice Ascher in the town of Andover. Poirot investigates this murder […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:346 |


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