Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


You know the drill, Careful what you wish for….

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection #1 by Various

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Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection #1 is a modern day R.L. Stine (a much more mature Goosebumps meets Fear Street). It is spooky, creepy, and clever. I am not sure why people like the games/videos/etc. (as I have never interacted with them, and only in the last year or … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:133 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Jump Up and Feel Down

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Reading about the rise and fall of the Sacklers, I kept thinking about the futurism of the 1950s. I had been to Futureland in Disney this past fall and it reminded me how obsessed people were in the post-war world with discovering things that dramatically enhanced life. This isn't a bad sentiment to … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Gore Vidal (1-3)

United States: State of the Art by Gore Vidal

United States: State of the Union by Gore Vidal

United States: State of Being by Gore Vidal

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"Eckerman: I'm delighted that The New York Review of Books is still going strong after--what is it now? Fifty years?" Gore Vidal tells us that he collected these essays and split it into three defining sections, each counting as a "state" which gives us the title United States. His sections: … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:139 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Margery Allingham (1); Barbara Tuchman (1); Barry Goldwater (1); Katherine Dunn (1); William Wells Brown (1); Elaine Marie Alphin (1); Julian Barnes (1)

The Case of the Late Pig by Margery Allingham

Notes from China by Barbara Tuchman

Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

On Cussing by Katherine Dunn

Narrative of William W Brown, A Fugitive Slave by William W Brown

An Unspeakable Crime by Elaine Marie Alphin

The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes

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The Case of the Late Pig "The main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is to not let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story." This middle of the road mystery by Margery Allingham (I mean middle of the road in the sense that she is eight books into the series with … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:136 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

My first DNF of the year

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

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I love mythology. I am the stereotypical gay boy who grew up devouring every piece of mythology I could get my hands on as a kid. So when I heard about a retelling of the Trojan War from the point of view of the women involved, I was amped! But, dear reader, I made it 40% and then decided that I … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

If you’ve read The Guest List, you can skip this one

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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I read Lucy Foley's other popular book The Guest List a few years ago and I enjoyed it. Fun, fast paced, interesting story line, so I was excited for another mystery by Foley. This one, The Paris Apartment, was nowhere near as enjoyable because so much felt exactly the same: multiple points of view, … [Read more]

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


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