Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A heartwarming story about poop

I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story by Mark Pett

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You might not want to recommend this book out loud in a group of mixed company as you will get a few looks, giggles, and teasing. I Eat Poop: A Dung Beetle Story is your “kid eats an odd food, is afraid he will be teased like (you will learn as we go along) his ex-best friend, and the lesson he learns about being himself.”  This time it is just with a dung beetle and other creatures. There is kid humor, and at the end […]

I need merchandise to go with my books!

Cursed Princess Club Volume One by Lambcat

Cursed Princess Club Volume Two by Lambcat

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Cursed Princess Club Volume One created by Lambcat is a WebToons special. In January 2023 volumes one and two (the summer of 2023) will be (hopefully) published in a physical format (as long as there are no broken-down trucks, snowstorms, printing issues, or acts of the Great Spaghetti Monster). When the King of the Pastel Kingdom wakes his children in the morning, one is sleeping in the flowers that grows wherever she is, one has birds and critters brushing her hair, one is delighting and sparkling […]

“We do bones, motherfucker.”

Gideon the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 1 by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR14 Bingo: “Hot” – Many things are described as hot in the book, corpses, swords.  But most importantly, Gideon is hot! SPOILERS: This is a review of my re-read of Gideon the Ninth and does have some spoilers.  Do not read if you haven’t already read Gideon. Spoiler Free review here.       I have the hardcover edition of Gideon the Ninth which does not include the short story “As Yet Unsent”.  “As Yet Unsent” is a collection of Judy Deuteros’ secret reports on Blood of Eden, after […]

Smalls

The Werewolf Principle by Clifford Simak

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Miracles of St Cuthbert by Bede of Jarrow

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

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The Werewolf Principle – 3/5 Not actually about werewolves, or even one werewolf. We begin this novel with a senator and his daughter coming across a man who has apparently recently returned from a trip to space, for which he was gone for 200 years of Earth time. He has no memory beyond a few basics, nothing really to say, or anything to really explain his situation. Once we get going a little bit, we come to learn that it’s possible that there’s more than […]

Claudius the God

Claudius the God by Robert Graves

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It took a little while into this second volume of Robert Graves’s historical novel about the life and reign of emperor Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), who becomes emperor at the very end of the first volume, much to his chagrin. It’s clear at the end when we get some source material added in the kinds of sources Graves used for his novel, in which sections are partially lifted. One example is a speech Claudius gives in which in the middle of his argument, […]

The Hunger Angel

The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller

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This is a more recent novel by Herta Mueller who won the Nobel Prize in 2009, soon after this novel came out. The epilogue and author’s note mentions that this began as a work in collaboration between Mueller and a poet whose experience overlap the subject of the poet’s experiences in a Soviet camp after the fall of Romanian in 1945. The novel circulates around the experiences of a young man from Romania who is captured and imprisoned by the new Soviet leadership when the […]



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