Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


A Fun Romance/Mystery, Perfect for the Beach or the Airport

Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews

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I am someone who is very sensitive to the formatting and trim size of a novel, so I think a lot of my enjoyment in this novel was partially related to how much I liked the mass market formatting they used. A couple of years ago a lot of publishing companies switched to this taller, skinnier format … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:62 · Genres: Mystery, Romance · Tags: , , , , , ·

When animals attack

Fuzz by Mary Roach

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I've read a lot of books by Mary Roach, but I was unaware that Roach had published two new books since I'd last read anything by her. Somehow I'd missed both Grunt (2016) and Fuzz (2021) by Roach. I decided to remedy that and picked up Fuzz at the library. Even though it's been years, I was … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

White Butterfly

White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

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The third novel in the Easy Rawlins novels, this book begins with Rawlins being confronted in his house by several local police and politicians. Rawlins is married now, and in the last book he adopted (under the table) a young Mexican boy who now lives with them. He's also got an infant daughter by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:337 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Inside Mr Enderby

Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess

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The first of a series of four novels written within a 20 year span in which a kind of literary alter ego for Anthony Burgess takes center stage. Enderby is a middle-aged poet, a consummate bachelor who lives with his stepmother, and composes his poetry (which is published to derision and mockery) on … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:336 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

The Resisters

The Resisters by Gish Jen

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

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The Resisters Previously this week I read the book The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel which involves a future baseball league that began as a splinter organization to allow augmented players. I described that novel as if Robert Coover wrote Blade Runner. Now this novel (which predates that novel by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:335 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Guilty Gore

Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler

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Okay, so we can all agree that Alien is amazing, right? That the xenomorph is a genuinely terrifying creation and something that we've all had at least one nightmare about, yes? Good. So imagine you are one of the few human settlements left surviving on a land razed by xenomorphs (or 'demons', as … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: ·


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