Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A warning on what we could become – Told as a futuristic thriller

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

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GENE EDITING IS A FEDERAL CRIME #GPA ONE MISTAKE CAUSED THE GREAT STARVATION #GPA #NEVERFORGET These are billboards you would pass if you lived in Denver Colorado in the far enough future that gene editing technology is much further advanced, but not so far that hashtags aren't still a … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

The book that made me realise: my husband is a philosopher.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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I feel like, rather than review this book, you should just go read it. Or listen to it, like I did, for free on Audible. It's not terribly long and it's well narrated. Highly consumable. Because how on earth am I supposed to review a book that is basically one giant, really good quote about getting … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Oh Ford, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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It seems like the thing to do is to consider Brave New World and 1984 as a pair. And I can certainly understand why, as both are set in a future that is wildly different, yet similarly terrifying. Brave New World begins with an in-depth look at the selective breeding and conditioning that now … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: ·

Annie Ernaux (1)

Cleaned Out by Annie Ernaux

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It would be easy to assume or guess that this Annie Ernaux novel about a young woman needing to seek out, as she calls out, "a back alley abortion" is already covered in the auto-fiction book "A Happening", and in some ways it is. This is Annie Ernaux's debut novel from the early 1970s, and while … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:129 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: drmllz

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In our January Zoom chat, drmllz and tiny_bookbot discovered they had met in real life! Cannonballers in the wild – a rare sighting! What’s your favorite subject/angle to teach as a literature and media studies lecturer and researcher? What gets your students the most fired up? I'm happy to … [Read more]

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Number Three With a Bullet

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

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The third entry in Richard Osman's phenomenally successful Thursday Murder Club series follows the arc of most series. The stakes continually get higher, new characters are introduced, and the plots get more and more complicated. For now, though, the grace of Osman's plotting and the charm of his … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: ·


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