Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


That’s not sparkle. It’s rage-glitter.

The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

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CBR14 BINGO: Holiday square (BINGO! Cold to Holiday BINGO! Gaslight to Elephant. BLACKOUT!!!) (Christmas romance is about as holiday as you can get, I think, and a great way to hit the bingo blackout.) I love holiday romance movies. All of them. I can snort-laugh while I wrap presents when … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , , , ·

Dickens in Appalachia

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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Demon Copperhead, born to a drug-addicted single mother in an Appalachian trailer park, is the protagonist of Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, a modern re-telling of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. Like his literary forebear, Demon's life will be full of struggle and cruelty, mostly from an … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

“I was the kid with the shackle clamped around his wrist:” King’s Latest Doorstopper

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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I've read almost all of the King oeuvre so was excited to see this at 30% off at Target. He's known as a master storyteller for a reason, and I sped through this in a few days. Over the last few years he's been mainly playing around with crime novels and thrillers, so this pastiche/homage to classic … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:126 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror · Tags: , , , , ·

Men, Follow Your Dreams! Women, errr- just keep on keeping on

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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I feel like The Alchemist was a ship that I missed when it first sailed many years ago- it was such a sensation that tabloids showed all sorts of famous people (Bill Clinton!) reading it and it was optioned for an (as yet unmade) film. So here I am, reading it only 30 years late. The Alchemist is a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

The Woman, The Myth, The Legend

Cleopatra, A Life by Stacey Schiff

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When in Egypt, amirite? I was going to pit this as a battle of two Cleopatra books with the Shakespeare play but it turns out I had a lot to say so I ended up splitting them. For the best I think, as they’re both so different- Shakespeare’s play is one layer in the myths of this real historical … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , , ·

Drama Queen

Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

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Ah, Shakespeare- takes me right back to high school English class! (Truthfully though: I hadn’t read this play nor seen it performed, but the general strokes of the story were familiar.) Ready? Here goes: Marc Antony, the great Roman general, is uneasily sharing power with Octavius, Julius Ceaser’s … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: , , , , , , ·


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