Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Ex-Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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4.5 stars Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Pets (Steve Rogers Goldstein plays a fairly major role in the book) CBR16 Bingo: Dreams (Shay has dreamed about having her own show on public radio for over a decade) Shay Goldstein grew up loving radio. She and her now deceased father would listen to radio together and even have their own pretend radio shows, so she is very grateful for her job as a producer at a Seattle public radio station, and is very happy with what she […]

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Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

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CBR16 BINGO: Cult, because Murderbot fans are a little cult of our own Exit Strategy, entry #4 in the Murderbot Diaries, picks up pretty much where Rogue Protocol left off, with a bunch of humans trying to kill Murderbot. It seems like humans either want to kill our SecUnit hero or make friends with it, and it’s difficult to say which option horrifies it more. Although I was less enamored of the third entry in the series than I was of the first two, I was […]

Bartleby The Scrivener

Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman Melville

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I won’t lie, I read this because of a joke in Archer. Having read it, the joke is brilliant. I love little discoveries like that. Bartleby the Scrivener is a short story about a scrivener (copier of longhand legal documents) who one day upsets the entire order of his workplace when he is asked to do part of his job and responds “I’d prefer not to.” This escalates, with Bartleby preferring not to do more and more, until he is slowly driven out of his entire […]

The 120 Days of Sodom

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade

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This book is gross. I read it because I saw an article on Pajiba discussing Salo, the film adaptation of this book. The author said it’s important to consume as art because of how challenging it is. I figured I could consume the book but knew I wouldn’t like the movie. I could indeed consume the book, but it’s stupid. This is the sort of book people brag about reading, and I’m not bragging. I’m scolding because I find this Eli Roth-style extremity for extremity’s […]

All That Glitters

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor

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This was a nicely structured fantasy novel with the kind of plucky heroine I enjoy.  Jani and her younger sister, Zosa, are living grimly in a port town called Durc.  They made the trip to Durc after their mother died so that Zosa could pursue a singing career but four years later, Zosa is no closer to becoming a singer than she was when they arrived and Jani is working at a tannery to try to earn their passage back home (a task that looks […]

Hey, Boo

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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CBR16 BINGO: Bananas, because this is a frequently banned or challenged book, and banning books is bananas. I have different reasons for re-reading certain novels. Sometimes I re-read a favorite book simply because I know it will make me happy. Sometimes I want visit with characters who feel like old friends. And sometimes it’s purely practical, like when I need clarity before continuing a series. With a novel like To Kill a Mockingbird, which many of us read in high school, a re-read is a […]



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