Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


My First Post and My Favorite Stephen King Novel

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Steven King

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I love re-reading books and one of the Steven King novels that I love most is “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”. To many, it might seem quite boring as it mainly features a young girl lost in the woods. But to me, that’s the best aspect of it. A young female fighting for survival, who must find the inner strength to keep going no matter what, is crack cocaine to me. Kinda reminds me of the first season of The Walking Dead – slow […]

true story: my parents were called in for a meeting with the guidance counselor when I wrote a poem about bog sacrifices in third grade

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

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…which I learned about from reading Spider magazine. Ghost Wall kicks off with a young woman being led to the peaty gloom before snapping back to a modern teenager forced to reenact the Iron Age with her father and the massive chip on his shoulder. Clocking in at a mere 130 pages, Ghost Wall bridges the expanse from ancient Britons to bored college students. Sarah Moss’s prose is sparse but lush; months worth of meditations shift and shimmer through the fog of just 130 pages.   A theme reigns supreme throughout […]

You expect me to jump up on board with you and ride off into your delusional sunset

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

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We open on a young man on a quest. He is the prince of his land and his father has just died. To claim his kingship, he must travel to the grey land, defeat a dragon, and bring back a damsel for his bride. This is how things have always been in Harding. The farther dies and to claim his place, the son must complete this rite. Tradition in Harding decrees that the prince can be give no help to defeat his dragon, not even […]

Five stars with some qualifications for this White Whale book.

It by Stephen King

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Well, I did it. I did It. (I’m sure this is adding so much to the ongoing pun-based conversation surrounding this book.) I started this book on January 22nd, and finished it on January 30th. That is a long time to read a book for me, especially at the beginning of the year, when I like to get my momentum up and running with shorter, exciting books. But I’m doing the whole TBR Jar thing this year, and I pulled It out almost immediately. When […]

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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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What a journey I had with this novel. I am, at least in name, a member of a horror book club that one of my pals put together. This was the selection, so, like a dutiful book club member I picked it up. The waitlist was forever long for the novel but eventually, the audio was available and I dug in. I was positively delighted to discover that the narrator was Kate Mulgrew, aka Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager and Red from Orange is […]

Best Story about Lovers EVER!

Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories by Ray Russell

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I hadn’t heard of Russell until I saw this Penguin edition somewhere. I love castles with ghosts in them, or at least I love reading about them and visiting them in the daylight. Not sure, if I would like to spend a night in one. So of course, I had to get it and eventually read it. The fact that Russell worked for Playboy does show in a few of the stories – one or two stories have a link with sex and violence. The […]



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