Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Heartwrenching and So Good

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

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Bingo: Heart (themes of familial love) What a lovely book. The Best We Could Do is a graphic novel by Thi Bui. It's a story about her family. It starts with Thi giving birth to her son, and as she comes to terms with becoming a mother, she finds herself thinking about her relationships with her … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , , , , , ·

Peace like a river flows

Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes

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Bingo category - Mind Farm is the accounting of a year on a family farm in central Missouri.  Tom, Sally, and their children raise corn, soybeans, and hogs on this farm, which is actually a patchwork of smaller farms.  The year is mid-1980s, so there are the Reagan/Clinton farm policies to be … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

The Story the Torn Gown Told

The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet

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CBR 14 Bingo: Question Lanah Sawyer was questioned again and again in an effort to get at a truth she had already told. One evening, a teenage girl and a man who called himself a lawyer went for a walk on the Battery. But Lanah Sawyer refused to stay silent about what he had done to her - and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:105 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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I have a general theory that a poet should always write at least one novel, and novelist should mostly avoid writing poetry. Some novelists I like have written some serviceable poetry like John Updike or Margaret Atwood or Marge Piercy. Some novelists have written excellent poetry like DH Lawrence … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:476 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Miller’s Tale

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

The Price by Arthur Miller

The Man Who had all the Luck by Arthur Miller

Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller

After the Fall by Arthur Miller

The Ride Down St Morgan by Arthur Miller

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

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All My Sons In this play, we find ourselves looking in on two families torn apart by the war in a specific way. Joe Keller runs a machine factory that was refitted to build airplane parts during the war. The factory came under fire when a shipment of faulty parts that led to at least 29 deaths of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:475 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Tower of Swallows

Tower of Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski

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In the audiobook of the Witcher books, the narrator pronounces "Dandelion" not like the flower, but as "Dan Dell Eon". It's weird and off-putting. It made me wonder two things for the first time in the series. One, is that really how British people say that, and I think the answer is: no. Two, why … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:468 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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