Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


End of Year 1

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck

Hamlet's Enemey by Theodore Lidz

Killing Floor by Lee Child

The Client by John Grisham

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens

The Uplift War by David Brin

Monkey by Wu Cheng'en

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

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The Winter of Our Discontent - 4/5 This is John Steinbeck's last novel and it begins with our narrator, Ethan Allen Hawley, trying to reckon with what it's like to have once had money and then not to. He's a veteran who came home to find his father had squandered the family fortune to make a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:684 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Local Booksellers Know Best (Part One)

These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan

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A few months ago I started asking the teams at my two nearest bookstores, "what's the best thing you've read this month?"  I have come home with a variety of genres (only one of which I've never really been into), and a 100% strike rate. These Hollow Vows is the first book in a YA fantasy series … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: ·

I could not see any reason to finish this book

The Liars by Petronella McGovern

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I'll cut right to the chase.  I abandoned this book on page 176, because the dog went missing, presumed dead-as-message to the protagonist.  This book has the honour of being the first book all year that I didn't finish. I read a lot; I watch a lot of tv.  I do not require a happy ending.  I … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ·

Pure comfort

Alpha by Audrey Faye

Heart by Audrey Faye

Rebel by Audrey Faye

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Several people in my not Cannonball Read book community recommended Audrey Faye's Ghost Mountain Wolf Shifter Series. I grabbed the first one from Kindle Unlimited and, as I do, opened it to read the first couple of pages. And then I kept going and read until 5 am. I immediately downloaded the rest … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:148 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·

For I had seen with startling clarity that the two are connected, the fall of New Bethany and the rise of Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks

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Closing out CBR14 with a whimper, not a bang, folks. This is one of those books that I’m sure will get rave reviews. There are probably countless deep dives out there about how this book is an indictment of capitalism. And it is. It is about a lot of relevant things, but it’s also very … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·


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