Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


August 2022 Leftovers

Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself by K.C. Constantine

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris

Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees by Bob Klapisch and Pete Solotaroff

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland As into a Dynasty and Changed Baseball Forever by Nancy Finley

Sea Change by Robert B. Parker

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

Ms. Tree, Volume 1 by Max Alan Collins

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Some extra books I read in August. What a miserably hot month... Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood**** Less a conventional biopic on The Mick and more a look at his life vis-a-vis his legend and the backdrop of postwar America. Not as thorough as I would’ve liked but … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:165 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

“Sure, everything is ending. But not yet.”

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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CBR Bingo - Time (Bingo!) Both because this books plays a bit with timelines, and because I read The Candy House out of the order of publication (which I think was mostly fine). Having read The Candy House, I was sort of prepared for the style of this novel - a series of chapters that are … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:84 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , ·

Choose the person you want to be.

A Ghost in Shining Armor by Therese Beharrie

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One of the frequent fights that happens on the borders of romancelandia is whether or not a romance is a romance if the love interest dies. The two central elements of the romance genre are: the romantic relationship is central to the story, and there is a happily ever after/happy for now … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:95 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , , , , ·

They’re Out!

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof

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Read as part of CBR14Bingo: Scandal. The 1919 World Series was scandalized by eight members of the Chicago White Sox agreeing to throw it as part of a gambling conspiracy.  Bill James is a legend among baseball fans. His greatest rep is as the Analytics Guy but my first taste of his work was his … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:152 · Genres: Sports · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Eating Your Grief

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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Reading Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner's examination of her relationship with her mother in the aftermath of her early death from cancer, it was impossible for me not to psychoanalyze the author and eventually it became impossible for not to psychoanalyze myself as well. In all it made this book … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: ·

I just couldn’t connect with this despite enjoying the author’s previous works

The Raven Spell by Luanne G. Smith

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BINGO - Gaslight Sisters Edwina and Mary Blackwood have to move around quite a bit. Any time their neighbors catch wind of what they really are, they must move. Witches aren't the most tolerated group of people in Victorian England (hence the gaslight). Edwina has the innate ability to find shiny … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , ·


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