Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s biblical!

Thunderhead: Arc of a Scythe Book 2 by Neal Shusterman

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Thunderhead, the second book in Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, is a gripping, exciting novel that sets the stage for major conflict in book 3, which I can’t wait to start. Book one introduced the reader to Shusterman’s futuristic world in which all evils seem to have been eradicated: illness, disease, war, crime, even death have been brought under control. In this world, people who meet unfortunate accidents or try to kill themselves can be revived. One is only truly dead when a scythe […]

Gore Vidal (5-6)

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

The Best Man by Gore Vidal

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“‘Old age is a shipwreck’. Like man a ground soldier, General de Gaulle was drawn to maritime metaphors.” Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 This last significant collection of essays by Vidal was published in 2001 around the inauguration of George W Bush. He did publish some smaller texts later, and a kind of end of life memoir before he died, but this is probably the last sizeable work of his before his death in 2012. Like the large collection United States, this book covers literary, political, […]

Robert McCammon (2-3)

Hunter From the woods by Robert R. McCammon

I Travel by Night by Robert R. McCammon

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“They travel by night.” Hunter from the Woods This is a follow-up collection of short stories to Robert McCammon’s novel The Wolf’s Hour. That novel was published in 1989 and this collection in 2011, so it’s fair to wonder how and why the character stayed with McCammon so long, especially given the sheer amount of writing her did in between. The character and that novel are incredibly fascinating. Among all I’ve read of his, it’s one of the richest and most fully realized story and […]

Lillian Hellman (2); Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (1); Mary Rowlandson (1); Sherman Alexie (1)

Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman

The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson

"Captivity" by Sherman Alexie

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“This book is dedicated to all white people everywhere…Just kidding! The opposite of that! This book is dedicated to our family and friends who experienced all these stories with us…Just kidding, this book is dedicated to El Debarge!” The World Record Book of Racist Stories I normally quote the first line of the book, but here that line is scene-setting and doesn’t say much out of context. So I quote the dedication, and if you haven’t read the first book, you can see what kind […]

I Mean, Damn

How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent

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Best for: Anyone with a strong stomach and a desire to read a deeply disturbing but also kind of funny revenge fantasy. I had a fairly long travel day yesterday, involving two short flights but a lot of airport time. I started the book at 11:30. I finished it at about 5pm. In a nutshell: Content notes for the book and the review: sexual assault, pedophilia, murder, animal cruelty, probably a lot of other things Influencer Kitty accidentally killed someone who was about to sexually […]

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Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief  by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

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Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]



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