Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Plays Wrap Up

Oedipus by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Amadeus by Peter Schaffer

Deeper and Deeper by Matt Berns

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Oedipus - No Rating This is about the fiftieth time I've read this play, and I always enjoy it. It's one of those plays I read when I was moving from being a reader to being a thinker about reading. I even wrote an essay about it in tenth grade. I have no clue what I wrote, but I started it at 10 … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:298 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Plot Twist

Plot Twist by Bethany Turner

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This one is a shame. The plot sounded great. A woman has a meet cute with a guy in a coffee shop. They end up agreeing to meet in 10 years. And we check in with her every year on the same day that she met her mysterious man. But the book just has too much going on that you can't get a handle on … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:120 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·

What Now?

What Now? by Shari Low

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Oh no.  I feel terrible for saying this because I really love the 1st book so much, but this was just awful. Also this is not a romance, this is women's fiction. And was not a great sequel to what came before. Next time readers may want to re-think begging an author for an update on characters … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:119 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , ·

What If?

What If? by Shari Low

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This was hilarious. This is a re-release of a book that came out in 2001. I have seen books by Shari Low for a while now, but haven't been too enamored by the samples. But this was the first one I read that had me cracking up and deciding to read the whole thing. I loved the craziness of Carly … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:118 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·

I might be softly done with this series, but ymmv

Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert

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I might be rounding up for this book--I picked this up because I really loved Neon Gods, but these next two entries just haven't really kept my attention as much. This time around, the old Ares (head of Olympus' armed forces) has passed away. The spot of Ares is filled with the victor of a series … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:75 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , , , ·

He had me at apostrophes

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

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On page 36 of Dreyer's English, author and Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer makes use of the fearsome CAPS LOCK key to make a point about never, EVER using an apostrophe to pluralize a word. Having been driven to contemplate felonies by the sight of signs saying, for example, "DVD's for … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·


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