Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Happy Bingo Blackout!

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

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BINGO – Question: will the second capture the magic of the first? Will I be able to blackout my Bingo card? Answer: Mostly and yes! Murderbot is out on its own searching for answers about its past. Not really on the lamb but also not looking for any attention either, Murderbot sneaks its way to RaviHyral, the location where it first malfunctioned, in order to get more information about its past. Along the way, Murderbot hitches a ride with a research transport ship that is […]

The 1980s called and got the right 2000 number

The Baby-Sisters Club The Truth About Stacey V02 by Raina Telgemeier

The Baby-Sitters Club Mary Anne Saves the Day V03 by Raina Telgemeier

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Some of us might have read Ann M. Martin as a young kid. This would have been the 1980s and 1990s. I missed her Baby-Sitters Club original run (my younger sister was a fan), but I have enjoyed her 21st century contributions to the world of literature. When Raina Telgemeier took over the series for a graphic novel adaptation, I gave them a shot. I have read three or four of the main stories, and one or two of a companion series, and figured they […]

The Boys Trip

The Hobbit: The Graphic Novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

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I have never really had an interest in reading J. R. R. Tolkien, simply because if you can make as many movies from one series (Lord of the Rings) as it has had, and I know that a lot of what is in the novel is taken out, I am thinking they are not for me. However, I do know that The Hobbit is a bit shorter, and since it is just one novel, I thought maybe I could tackle it. It wasn’t until I […]

A post with some book reviews

Black Sunday by Thomas Harris

Suffer the Children by John Saul

Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon

Maigret, Lognon, and the Gangsters by Georges Simenon

Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon

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Black Sunday – 3/5 This is the first novel by Thomas Harris, of Hannibal Lecter fame, and it’s a weird one. The logline, especially if you’ve seen the movie, is that a madman is trying to blow up the Super Bowl with a blimp. And that’s kind of right. Instead of it being a madman, we’re in the middle 1970s and novels about terror groups is all the rage. I am thinking specifically of books like Day of the Jackyl, which while mostly about an […]

Can’t think of a title, too excited to announce Bingo #10,11, & 12 – Black Out!

Transmetropolitan volume 2: Lust for Life by Warren Ellis (author), Darick Robertson (penciller), Kim Demulder (inker), Rodney Ramos (inker), Nathan Eyring (colorist), Clem Robbins (letterer)

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CBR14 Bingo: “Bird” – Because there are birds on the cover and Spider Jerusalem figuratively flips the bird to the world on the regular. Warren Ellis’ “Transmetropolitan” comic series is set in a not terribly distant, messy, chaotic future (far from any idea of a future utopia) with one lone journalist intent on telling the truth, Spider Jerusalem.  As described by a friend, he is “a dirty bastard and a moral vacuum, but you couldn’t have a better friend.”  Through Spider, Ellis gives a blistering […]

“But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.”

Skin Game (The Dresden Files #15) by James Butcher

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In one word: Fun Cannonball Read Bingo: Gaslight I took a mini-hiatus from my Dresden Files read because Butcher’s casual sexism was grating on my nerves, and I wasn’t having much fun.  (When reading becomes a chore, you know it’s time to move on or take a break). I knew I’d be back though because I’m already too deep into the series but more importantly, I don’t know how to quit James Marsters on audio. (Swoon). Disclaimer: it’s increasingly harder to talk about this series […]



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