Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Readings about Reading

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino

The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Twenty Five Books that Shaped America by Thomas Foster

How to Read Noves like a Professor by Thomas Foster

Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick

How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods - 5/5 Stars One of the most exciting things to feel, for me at least, is when reading becomes not just an act of enjoying and engaging with a story or ideas, but an active hunt for meaning and understanding. I am a big proponent of doing the reading you want to do … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:231 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

“The world’s like that. What matters in one moment, it doesn’t matter the next. Things that fall apart eventually come back together again.”

Lucky by Marissa Stapley

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In one word: Convenient I've been pretty pleased with Reese's Book Club selections. This is the 8th of her picks that I've read, and even when the book wasn't for me (I'm looking at you, "Where the Crawdads Sing"), I still saw the quality of the novel and understood why she would champion it as a … [Read more]

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

“I think I’d been looking for it all my life a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

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In one word: Unnerving First things first. We gotta talk about this cover. FRIGGIN. GASP. From art to font, the whole thing is perfection. It really captures the tone of the book, as nature and puberty coalesce into a diseased nightmare for the students of the Raxter School for Girls. When the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: , , , ·

“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator”

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

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After having read two of his books in (relatively) quick succession I can say with full confidence that Patrick Radden Keefe is an excellent writer and a dogged journalist. He was starting with topics that I wanted to read about, even if they were difficult, but he was able to draw me in in ways I … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“An Indian Affairs agent said, ‘The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?”

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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In one word: Injustice. (Bonus words: rage-inducing) This is my second read of this harrowing historical tale. When my local book club picked it out to tackle this year, I dove back in for another listen, and I was filled with just as much anger as the first time around. This book first came … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

The President has an Academy Award and Who’s the Prime Minister of England?

The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross

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So it turns out that you can have a decent Laundry Files novel without Bob Howard as central figure; The Labyrinth Index follows Bob’s colleague Mhari Murphy who was turned into a vampire in a previous novel (one I haven’t read) thanks to a computer program/advanced math/parasite infection thing. It … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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