Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Having [the kids] in a confined space after traveling for thirty-six hours was like chain-smoking in a fireworks factory.”

We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year by Charles Wheelan

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I really love a good travel book. I also love to actually travel, but armchair travel is much more cost effective! We Came, We Saw, We Left is a travel book, but it’s also a family book, which had both pros and cons. The Wheelans, or “Team Wheelan,” as Charles often dubs them, are an … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

It’s bad to be good

Little Good Wolf by Susan Stevens Crummel

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  This review has a few spoilers     I was really getting into the story of Little Good Wolf. Little Good Wolf plays with the piggies, cleans his room, brushes his teeth, takes baths, and even reads bedtime stories to himself. His parents are truly fed up with his actions, so … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:306 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

An 80 Year Old Novel That Could Have Been Written Today

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

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I originally bought Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock because I had it confused with The Winslow Boy, which are bizarre novels to mix up, I know. So I went into Brighton Rock with no expectations or knowledge about the plot. The main character—called the Boy or Pinkie—is a teenager defined by his … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

An Illustrated History of WWI

The First World War: An Illustrated History by AJP Taylor

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This is a little history of WWI that I recently got a book fair. It was published by Penguin in the 1960s and is looking back at WWI some fifty years out. It gives up the game a little in the first chapter when it describes the war as basically one battle (the first battle of the Marne) followed by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:315 · Genres: History · Tags: ·

Plowing the Dark

Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

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Like all novels, this one is about the representation of reality. But not like all novels, this one takes that question head on. This is another of Richard Powers's novel where the main narrative is interpolated by a secondary narrative with mostly thematic connections to the story. The novel is … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:314 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Funny Business

The War for Late Night by Bill Carter

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When I read Bill Carter's The Late Shift, about the battle over succeeding Johnny Carson as the host of The Tonight Show, I was reading about events that took place when I was seven years old and not, obviously, a viewer of late night television. Though I had heard the broad strokes of the story of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·


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