Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

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In one word: Tension Cannonball Read Bingo: Dough As I’m rounding third and heading for home with only hours left to complete the Cannonball Read Bingo challenge, I’m at the point of the endeavor where I’m working to shoehorn in things that I’ve already read to the squares I have left. It’s a delicate dance and I didn’t think I’d find a good entry for one of the few spaces left on my bingo card. But here came this big meaty Stephen King book that […]

A spy, an assassin, and a telepath; meet the Forgers! Bingos #8 & 9!

Spy x Family: volume 1 by Tatsuya Endo

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CBR14 Bingo: “Font” – I love all the different fonts used for sound effects in comics. Spy x Family is written and drawn by Tatsuya Endo.  It’s the story of an elite spy, known only by his handle, Twilight.  He is an agent for an organization in Westalis and master of disguise.  The agency has learned that a far-right group in the country on their Eastern border, Ostania, is wanting to start a war with Westalis.  Twilight is dispatched to discover what the East is […]

Two beautiful stories about family

Schmuel's Bridge by Jason Sommer

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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It is quite an undertaking to excavate our parents sorrow. To do so with a parent who has been through one of the worst tragedies in history, is something enormous. This was a fascinating experience for me to read about a man who I know only as a father to share what it is like for him, only as a son. The author’s son is a student at my school, and I have had the pleasure of having meetings with Jason and his wife (I […]

You should all drop whatever you are doing and join me in my current obsession (double bingo)

Lore Olympus, vol 2 by Rachel Smythe

Lore Olympus, vol 3 by Rachel Smythe

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4.5 stars CBR14 Bingo: Adapted (Rachel Smythe’s modern take on the Greek myths – and obviously especially Hades and Persephone is so cleverly done) So, searching my blog and Goodreads to see what I wrote about Lore Olympus, my current web-comic obsession, I discovered that after finishing volume one in November last year, all I did was leave a two-sentence comment on Goodreads. If I recall correctly, I was pretty solidly burned out last winter, so I’m amazed I posted any reviews in the final months […]

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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I’ve read Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, so it felt almost inevitable that I would read her latest book. Sea of Tranquility came out this year (2022), and includes a couple of characters that we first met in The Glass Hotel (although it is definitely not necessary to read The Glass Hotel first). I found it to be an interesting, well-written, imaginative novel. St. John Mandel did an impressive job in balancing her different characters and intertwining her storylines. I only had one small issue with the believability of […]

“You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently.”

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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In one word: Possibility Cannonball Read Bingo: Question This book was been on my to-read list for quite a while, but I couldn’t get it done! I checked it out from the library two separate times and returned it unopened. I actually opened a copy that was at our vacation house last year, but when I realized it was an imagining of what happens after you die, and likely would leave me with more questions than answers, the timing was bad. I had juuuust finished […]



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