Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Stolen Thoughts – Tim Tigner (2020)

Stolen Thoughts by Tim Tigner

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If you told me this book and this author were bots and written by bots, I would completely believe you. I would also worry about AIs developing to the point where they could write convincingly entertaining single-conceit technothrillers. But I also wouldn’t worry too much. That said, Tim Tigner is probably working right now on a technothriller about bots writing novels and replacing the need for writers. This book takes the question, what if we could read minds (but because of technology) and runs with […]

I’m still not sure I’m ok after this one…

The Winters by Lisa Gabriele

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    “Once I made up my mind to leave, a calm came over me. The fight was over. In fact, it felt less like leaving then like Asherley was pushing me out, rejecting me like a body rejecting an unfamiliar organ.” A modern twist on the classic “Rebecca” tale, our young heroine works for a charter company in the Caribbean and until she pays of the debt she owes her employer for her father’s funeral expenses, that is all she’s ever going to do. […]

Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding (2001)

Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

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The second entry in the Bridget Jones books and it takes what’s ridiculous and goofy about the first one and really adds in some more. What I do really about this book is similar to something I really like about Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity” implied by the movie “The Graduate” which is that romantic comedies are great and all, but what happens after? Well, “High Fidelity” has another 100 pages or so, and this book is the sequel to the romantic comedy and is about […]

A Meaningful Life – LJ Davis (1971)

A Meaningful Life by LJ Davis

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There’s a way that the 1960s feels like it belongs to the past and the 1970s belongs to the present. That’s not a clear break, as movies and novels heading even to the 1980s still feel part of the past. For example, Network feels past and so does the Lorrie Moore story “How to be the Other Woman”. Movies like Patton and The Sting feel like the past, but something like Rocky or Deer Hunter feel like the present. There’s also transitional books and movies […]

If Rube Goldberg had written humorous novels…

Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse

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Cbr13bingo Libations, Bingo #5 (Diagonal) I love PG Wodehouse novels, especially the Bertie Wooster/Jeeves series, but this story featuring Uncle Fred, aka Lord Ickenham, is almost as hilarious and entertaining as the Bertie and Jeeves books. Lord Ickenham, in his 50s I think, is the sort of man who knows how to stir up trouble and then orchestrate events so as to calm the afflicted and afflict the calm. In true Wodehouse fashion, there are a number of plots (mostly involving money and love) that […]

Fine, I Liked It.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

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CBR Bingo: Libations (took me a long while to realize that was a broken lolly) A couple years ago I watched HBO’s adaptation of this book, and found myself completely sucked in. I binged both seasons in just a few days, and Laura Dern screaming “Thank youuuuuuu!” has lived rent-free in my head ever since. After I watched the series I picked up the book. I got to the part where Madeline introduces herself using her full name, and even though that didn’t bother me […]



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