Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

He sang as if he knew me, in all my dark despair.

The Roommates (Three Player Grind #1) by Allyson Lindt

His Reluctant Omega Mate (Sweetwater Pack Book 1) by Jax Stuart

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CBRBingo16: Détente The characters want to be together but there are conditions to their union. Self-sacrifice, responsibility, and fear of the unknown hold them back. The Roommates (Three Player Grind #1) by Allyson Lindt With her daughters on vacation with their father, a reluctantly relieved Daria is ready to begin her week of relaxation in Hawaii. Since she will be gone, she offered her daughter’s swim coaches, Colin and Tanner, to stay in her home while their shared apartment is being fumigated. When her boss […]

Follow the nursery rhyme

Keisari Seisoo Palatsissaan (The Emperor Stands in His Palace) (1971) by Eeva Tenhunen

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Bingo square ‘Golden’: A famous author’s literary legacy looms large–and lucrative.  It is criminal that the work of Eeva Tenhunen (1937-2017) is out of print and untranslated. Described in her day (she published her novels between 1964 and 1987) as ‘Finland’s Agatha Christie’, you can see the influence of the English Golden Age of detective fiction: a country house and its rituals, a disruptive outsider, and a seething bubbling crucible of familial and marital tensions, class and political differences, and deep dark secrets. Tenhunen swaps […]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe

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After watching Mike Flanagan’s outstanding The Fall of the House of Usher, I felt compelled to revisit some Poe and look for references I’d missed on my watch through. I recognized the name Arthur Gordon Pym (the Usher attorney) but didn’t realize it was Poe’s only novel until looking deeper. With it being free on Audible I figured I had to give it a shot. It’s weird as hell, first of all. And gruesome. Some of the most horrific scenes in any Poe story happen here: […]

Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

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I am a big proponent of knowing what you criticize, and boy do I criticize JD Vance. Couch-fucking aside (no he didn’t really fuck a couch, yes it’s hilarious how believable it is that he sank hog into a sofa) he’s a creepy fascist with no morals apart from what gets him further up the ladder. It’s a little scary to criticize someone like that, especially on the internet when he’s so cozy with a handful of tech mogul creeps, but the ability to criticize […]

Seeking revenge, making friends

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

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CBR16 BINGO: Scandal, because Murderbot is seeking to uncover all sorts of illegal activities by the GrayCris Corporation Having recently joined the ranks of the Murderbot fandom, I’m eagerly frolicking my way through the series. While the third installment, Rogue Protocol, struck my fancy less than the first two installments, it’s still a good time and I’m itching for more. In Rogue Protocol, the construct known fondly by us readers as Murderbot and by others as SecUnit is still gathering evidence that the GrayCris Corporation […]

“First your actions change, then your thoughts, then finally your feelings, in that specific order.”

Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas

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In five words: Olympic, inspirational, poetic, raw, memoir This book came like a wrecking ball out of nowhere and hit me upside the head, in the best way possible. “Run like a bravey. Sleep like a baby. Dream like a crazy. Replace can’t with maybe.” I had never heard of Alexi Pappas but a run club friend, knowing I love to read, loaned me her copy of the memoir of this Olympic runner/poet/filmmaker. I took it to a Silent Book Club meet-up and read non-stop […]



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