Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Reviews Part 6 45 Minutes Left

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Body by Bill Bryson

Slow Horses by Mick Herron

Dead Lions by Mick Herron

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Book 26: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry Rough Review: 4 stars. Let’s see, where does this go on my Emily Henry ranking list? I think 3rd, after Book Lovers (one of my favourite reads this year and maybe in many years; it’s been a remarkable first third of the year for reading and The Wedding People, The Nix, and Unruly are all also some of my absolute favourites, and that’s not even mentioning the eight or so really awesome and ten or so quite enjoyable […]

This One Features Almost No Annotations Because I Did My Job the First Time What A Concept Part 5

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Happy Place by Emily Henry

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency by Elizabeth Comen

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

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Book 21: Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Rough Review: 3 stars. I don’t know how to review this, or what notes to write to let my future self know how I felt or what I was thinking after reading it. TBA is a talented writer and quite brutally…funny isn’t the right word, maybe amusing? But I think for me, a lot of this reads as characters and situations in service of commentary, commentary that is miserable and true and not completely true and certainly […]

It’s Not Looking Good But I Can’t Stop Now Part 4

From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger

Funny Story by Emily Henry

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore (Translator), Elizabeth Manton (Translator)

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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The colon returns: Revenge of the colon. Book 16: From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger Rough Review: 4 stars. I particularly enjoyed the last chapter, “Day Science and Night Science” – reading that whole section made me want to get a job in a lab and just start some Night meandering. I share the author’s concerns that the focus on practical applications (read: ways [for pharmaceutical companies] to make money) over general knowledge gathering is […]

An Increasingly Unhinged Collection of Stream of Consciously Annotated Reviews Part 3

Witch King by Martha Wells

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

The Searcher by Tana French

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Book 11: Witch King by Martha Wells Rough Review: I really wanted to like this one. As yet another big fan of Murderbot, I trust Martha Wells’ character creation and storytelling abilities, and was looking forward to seeing what she could do with a fantasy world, but it was hard for me to connect to this one. Other than Bashasa, who is not a main character, I wasn’t particularly interested in anyone here. Despite the whole book being from his POV, I never felt like I got […]

“A friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend who bleeds is better”

Workhorse (2025) by Caroline Palmer

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It’s been a weird year–a lot of work stress, some painful if not acute health stuff,  a lot of messy emotional knots, or perhaps unraveling, a lot of therapy, and reader’s block. But in the last days of the dying year, I did two things I have not done for a long time, one of which was stay up most of the night to finish a book. And that book was Caroline Palmer’s Workhorse, which I picked up in hardback on Christmas Eve because I […]

Marathon Typo-Riddled Book Review Collection Part 2

Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

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I see I was in my semicolon era here. Book 6: Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes – A Deeply Informative Tour of Evolution’s Imperfections and Compromises by Nathan H. Lents Rough Review: 3.5 stars because I would have liked a longer, more in-depth look at most of what he talked about , although I understand the aim was to reach a much broader audience than one particular little biology nerd. This book (or perhaps more accurately, the […]



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