Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Family by Naomi Krupitsky

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This book has received a lot of comparisons to Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and the other works in that series. Let me clarify: I’ve tried to read Ferrante multiple times and just can’t land with her writing. I don’t know what it is. It’s got nothing to do with my months-long slump; I can’t connect with it. So I’ve heard a lot of people dismiss The Family because it’s a comparison that doesn’t measure up for them. If you’re a big Ferrante fan, you should know that going […]

A cute fairy tale retelling

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

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3.5 stars Isabelle (her friends call her Izzy) was so elated when she got a job as an assistant editor for a big publishing company. It was like a dream come true. Several years later, when she’s overworked, underappreciated and still living with her parents at twenty-five, without even getting a promotion, she is starting to wonder if she should change careers. After having her own attempts at writing a book politely criticised by one of her more senior colleagues, that’s another dream she’s shelved, […]

“You know who you are, I know who you are, and our Lady does, too.”

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

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#CBR15 Passport Challenge: Different genres (paranormal fantasy) Being a queer teen can be difficult enough, even if you don’t come from a long line of magic users with very traditional gender roles. In Yadriel’s family, the brujos can summon the spirits of the dead and help them find peace in the afterlife. The brujas have tremendous healing powers. However, Yadriel’s family won’t let him go through the traditional rite for brujos, because of the gender he was born with. The only ones who seem to […]

Harper, have you considered… therapy?

Harper and the Single Dad by Amy Andrews

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After an abrupt breakup with Yarran, Harper fled to London and immersed herself in her career as a surgeon. When she returns to Sydney twelve years later, it almost feels like things between her and Yarran haven’t changed at all – except that Yarran has been married, widowed, and had a young son in that time. I pick up Harlequin romances to read when I am in the mood for a simple, comforting romance, and this book did not fail me in that regard. A […]

Giorgio Bassani

Novel of Ferrars by Giorgio Bassani

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This is a long collection of short novels about a town in between Bologna and Venice in northeast Italy circulating the long years of the wars, and especially in the lifetime of the novelist Giorgio Bassani, who lived from 1916-2000. Andre Aciman tells us in the introduction to the collection that the second world war created a kind of rift in Italian society, and moreover in Italian literature between those who saw the future as a place to moved toward and understand and an attempt […]

Harold Pinter

The Collection by Harold Pinter

The Lover by Harold Pinter

Moonlight by Harold Pinter

The Room by Harold Pinter

The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter

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The Dumb Waiter “BEN slams down the paper. BEN. Kaw ! He picks up the paper. What about this? Listen to this ! He refers to the paper. A man of eighty-seven wanted to cross the road. But there was a lot of traffic, see ? He couldn’t see how he was going to squeeze through. So he crawled under a lorry. GUS. He what ? BEN. He crawled under a lorry. A stationary lorry. GUS. No ? BEN. The lorry started and ran over […]



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