Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Disintegration Station

The Promise by Damon Galgut

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South Africa, 1987. As the country is in the death throes of Apartheid, defiantly buckling under the weight of an international boycott, a Jewish woman named Rachel Swart, mother of three and wife to farmer Herman ‘Manie’ Swart, dies of an unnamed disease. She makes her husband promise to gift the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , , , , ·

It’s Writing By Numbers but at Least the Painting is Good

The Outsider by Alex Finlay

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Grayson ‘Gray’ Hernandez has just finished law school. He dreams of making a big splash as a hot-shot lawyer, but so far his career hasn’t really taken off yet. Forever the idealist - his immigrant parents run a pizza place in a bad neighbourhood, and Gray wants to help them - he takes up a job as a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , ·

Not For Me, But Maybe Helpful for Others

The Anxiety Sisters’ Survival Guide: How You Can Become More Hopeful, Connected and Happy by Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Saracheck

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Best for: People with pretty serious anxiety In a nutshell: The authors, who I gather have created a support community for people with anxiety, offer their take on a variety of aspects of anxiety, including causes, treatments, management, and medications. Worth quoting: “What can happen is … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Health · Tags: , ·

Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons

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A collection of short writing by the science fiction and horror writer Dan Simmons, this book is less a good collection, and more of a catch-all for fictional writing Dan Simmons worked on in a given time. That's a shame because what's good is very good and interesting, but there's some distracting … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:605 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Mephisto (No, not that one)

Mephisto by Klaus Mann

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This is a German novel written in 1936 and published in exile. Klaus Mann was the son of Thomas Mann, and he wrote this with a brother in law in mind, an actor who rejected his Communist leanings to cozen up Nazis when they first gained power. When there was an attempt to publish this in West … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:604 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

You’re a cold-hearted snake…

Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire

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CBR14 Bingo: Series (this is book 17 in an ongoing series, do NOT start here). Could easily also have used this book for Snake and New.  Spoiler warning! This is book 17 in the series. It's impossible to review the book without referring to events in earlier books, so if you want to remain … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·


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