Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I used 266 words to describe a wordless book

Whirl by Deborah Kerbel

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One hundred eighty-seven words are what the publisher description includes. If you wish to read about the title Whirl by Deborah Kerbel, this is your introduction.  Yes, it deserves to be talked about, but I find it amusing that a wordless picture book (except for the description at the end about … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:87 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , ·

The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States

The Pilot and the Passenger by Leo Marx

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One of the things I try to teach my high school students taking college writing is that depending on the field of study and the research topic, that older scholarship sometimes needs to be handled as an historical document more so than a scholarly document. One of the things that's great about … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:92 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

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Leo Proudhammer is a lot of things at the beginning of this novel. He's 39, he's a famous stage actor, he's world-traveled, he's a Black man who grew up in Harlem, and he's bisexual. He's also just had a stress induced heart-attack that's nearly killed him. In his post-attack state, he begins to … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:91 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Gosh how zany – The mute secretary is also a stripper(! lolol)

Jumpers by Tom Stoppard

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I picked this up from a library book sale. Jumpers is the first play Tom Stoppard put out after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and even though the persnickety toffs of Concord MA apparently didn't check it out very often, I thought it showed some promise. The back cover copy is of the "can … [Read more]

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

Deep Cuts

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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Utopia Avenue comes into Dean Moss's life at just the right time. He's broke and newly homeless when Levon Frankland approached him at a bar and offers him a job. Levon needs a bassist for a rock group that he's putting together. Dean's so desperate he joins in despite the fact that there's no one … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Enjoyed it while reading it, then forgot about it almost immediately

Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

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Plot: Florence is an editorial assistant at a publishing company who one day sort of accidentally-on-purpose blows up her unfulfilling life. Soon after, she's given the chance to work as an assistant for the celebrated pseudonymous author, Maud Dixon. She soon learns that Maud Dixon is in fact a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , ·


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