Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Oh, you mean the GANGS of New York

Rogues' Gallery by John Oller

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I was jonesing for a New York City gangster tale last week. I finally started Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York but quit when I realize that the book is less glorious embellishment and more fan fiction. Frustrated, I looked for a substitute and then remembered I purchased John Oller's Rogues' … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:32 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

“Hello, you fighting orphans.”

Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour by Andre R. Frattino, et al.

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Looking for another book to read, I searched through NPR's Best Books List for something new and found another graphic novel. Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour: A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption after World War II (2022) by Andre R. Frattino, Kate Kasenow, and Janice … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

“What was worse, being invisible or being seen? It was exhausting, the ego, the desire to be noticed – even admired – always dilating and contracting, flapping open and crumpling closed, over and over and over.”

We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz

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I predict that I won't remember I read this book in a few years... so it's really going to be like this book was never here (rimshot). This book initially had a whiff of Single White Female, a la the 1992 movie starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, wherein a female friend starts to take … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , ·

This ain’t Green Acres

In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomas Gonzalez

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Cbr15passport books from different countries (Colombia) I learned about this short novel from a NYT “By the Book” interview with Patricia Engel. When asked about a great book that no one seems to know about, she mentioned Tomas Gonzalez’s In the Beginning Was the Sea (published in 1983, English … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

The Craftiest of Pensioners

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

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The Bullet That Missed is the 3rd in the series of the Thursday Murder Club Mysteries. I adore the characters and I can never get enough of them working through their difficult cases that often overlap other cases. This one starts as all the others do. The gang gets together to choose a cold case to … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Dario Fo (5)

Elizabeth by Dario Fo

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The full title of this play is Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman and in a lot of ways is similar to the recent film, The Favourite. One of my favorite lacuna in the theories about Shakespeare not actually being Shakespeare (he is) involves how many of Shakespeare's roles were clearly shaped by … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:196 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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