Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“I had confirmed my belief that I could walk into a cage of big cats and more importantly, walk back out again.”

Wild Animal Circus: True Tales From Carson & Barnes Circus by Dennis J. Younger

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CBR14Bingo: Snakes (there are snakes in this book) Continuing my dive into circus animal trainer memoirs with this self-published look into working the big cat act at Carson & Barnes in 1977-1978. This is a very plainly written, minimally edited book that is basically a day by day journal of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:85 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , , , , , ·

A Humane True Crime Recounting

The Ghosts that Haunt Me by Steve Ryan

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CBR Bingo: Snake Retired Canadian detective’s Steve Ryan’s The Ghosts that Haunt Me is a thoughtful, interesting look into cases that have stayed with him over the course of his career. I have read a lot of true crime, and this is one of the better books in the genre, particularly for its … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

“How to quantify the quality of being alive?”

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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CBR Bingo square: Bodies. I read this one closer to the start of my summer of Irish fiction, in an independent study with a student who needed just a couple more credits to graduate. I wanted something pretty contemporary to close out on, so I gave her a choice between Donoghue's The Pull of the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , ·

These

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

War of the Worlds by Orson Welles

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Gaslight/Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton

Rope by Patrick Hamilton

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Look Back in Anger - 3/5 I took a class in grad school called "Post-War British Masculinity" and lest you think it was just a code-word for "Angry Young Men" we also read some tremendously good books like the Collected Philip Larkin, Brideshead Revisited, and The Jewel in the Crown. This was also … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:441 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Alan Bennett

The History Boys by Alan Bennett

Single Spies by Alan Bennett

Forty Years On by Alan Bennett

The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

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If you haven't read much Alan Bennett, I really recommend him. He's devilish in the best of ways, and his short novella An Uncommon Reader, is truly wonderful. History Boys - 5/5 This is the famous, Tony-awarding winning, and filmed play by Alan Bennett. In the play, we begin in the 1980s or … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:435 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Fragile Things A Solid Collection of Stories from Gaiman

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

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So, and interesting story on why I re-read this collection. Being the Gaiman nerd I am, I purchased a 1st edition immediately when it came out and then had Neil sign it for my son who was very young at the time. That son is going to college in a few weeks and I decided to read the collection again … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·


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