Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Trick or Baseball?

Fuzzy Baseball V05: Baseballoween by John Steven Gurney

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The series Fuzzy Baseball is known for occasionally breaking the fourth wall, but this time, in Fuzzy Baseball V05: Baseballoween everything is broken! Yes, it is funny, and still has the fantastically clever baseball name puns, but it feels like John Steven Gurney has gotten a few balls to the head and is close to a strikeout. I think it is time to hang up the catcher’s mitt and move onto a new gang of players. Though, the Halloween aspect is funny and even though […]

As much as I like this series, I give you two more volumes and please finish the story arc

The Nightmare Brigade V03 Finding Alice by Franck Thillez

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In many ways, volume three of The Nightmare Brigade: Finding Alice is both my least due to changes happening to the characters and some of the new characters added are not “fleshed out” enough (hopefully that is a “yet”). However, it is also a favorite due to getting the bigger picture we had had established in the first two volumes by Franck Thillez. This time, even though we have entered the nightmares of others, this time it feels heavier on the fantasy and science elements. […]

Evelyn Waugh

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

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“‘Sent down for indecent behaviour, eh?’ said Paul Pennyfeather’s guardian.” This is Evelyn Waugh’s first real novel, and is a revision of an earlier novel he was working on. It was published in 1928, and if you’ve only read something like Brideshead Revisited or to some extend Men at Arms (or the whole of the Sword of Honour trilogy) it’s easy to mistake the humor and irony of those more serious novels for the primary tone of much of Waugh’s fiction. Several of his books […]

Samanta Schweblin

Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin

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“‘We’re lost’, says my mother.” This a a recent collection of Samanta Schweblin stories, and like all Samanta Schweblin books I’ve read, I was left at the end of this one not really being entirely sure what I just read, or if I liked it. So it goes. The stories here, as the title suggests, are about displacement, sometimes physical, sometimes emotional, sometimes metaphysical. The stories are anchored by a long central novella and like a lot of collections that is the most realized and […]

Philip K Dick

Collected Stories Volume 3 by Philip K Dick

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“Professor Anthony Douglas lowered gratefully into his red-leather easy chair and sighed. A long sigh, accompanied by a labored removal of his shoes and numerous grunts as he kicked them into the corner. He folded his hands across his ample middle and lay back, eyes, closed. ‘Tired?’ Laura Douglas, asked turning from the kitchen stove a moment, her dark eyes sympathetic.” In this third volume of Philip K Dick stories, we get a similarly varied collection of space, future, technology, magic, dimensional, and other kinds […]

There Are Some Weird Deeds Here

Dangerous Deeds;The Westport Mysteries. Lizzie Book 1 by Beth Prentice

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  I am an avid fan of Book Bub because it allows me to try and read some things that I probably wouldn’t spend full price on.  Sometimes that’s a great thing, others not so much. At present, I’m still trying to process how the book cover (which I’m guessing first enticed me) goes with the actual book. It doesn’t, so I should stop trying to figure it out.  This book series will probably be chosen by Hallmark Movies and Mysteries to replace all the […]



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