Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Bodies? Bodies!

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

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Read this as part of CBR14 Bingo: Bodies. Because it has "bodies" in the title and involves a lot of bodies, some alive, some dead.  You was by far one of the best books I read this year. Which surprised me given that I don't care for books about serial killers; finding them monotonous and often … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:151 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Thomas Mann Stories

Blood of the Walsungs by Thomas Mann

Tristan by Thomas Mann

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"The Blood of the Walsungs" In this novella, a Prussian entrepreneur of Jewish descent (always a little dicey in German literature) starts a family and has children. His youngest children are the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde. We meet this family as the twins are in their early adulthood near the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:501 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Learning to Talk

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel

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Families! Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - 3/5 Stars I went looking for some pictures of David Sedaris and his family after listening to the audiobook here and stumbled upon the article about the suicide of his sister Tiffany. Along with that article came some additional writings by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:499 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

Shorts and Re-reads

Ripley Underground by Patricia Highsmith

Disgrace by Ayad Akhtar

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

Agnes of God by John Pielmeier

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

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Ripley Underground - 4/5 The second Tom Ripley novel begins with the revelation that we're about ten or so years on from the first novel, that Tom is now married and living off his "inheritance" from Dickie's forged will. He's in London and he's become involved in an art forgery scheme. Recently … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:497 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: booktrovert

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What's the best book you've picked up as a result of a CBR recommendation/review? The September Book Club recommendations have been great so far - my favorite has been All Boys Aren't Blue. Most recently I added The Journalist and the Murderer to my TBR, and it's nearly at the top so I am looking … [Read more]

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More Charm than Trick – it’s a magical heist!

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

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CBR14Bingo: Monster - Uh, it's in the title? OK, ok. The Enigmas Clara deals with are pretty monstrous, and the villain does some pretty terrible and monstrous things. While I don’t read too many historicals any more, I have a definite thing for magical ones. And since I loved the author’s … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:70 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , ·


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