Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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I Have Seen the Nipple on Your Soul

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

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You know those workdays where you get a lot done in the morning, and you think to yourself, “I’ve done enough, I think I can take it easy this afternoon”? Well, consider that my attitude for the rest of 2022, as my greatest achievement of the year is behind me: I finished this damn book. I’ve wanted to read Haruki Murakami for a long time, and I was so intrigued by the premise of this book: A woman, Aomame, begins to discover subtle differences between […]

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation

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CBR10Bingo – White Whale White Whale! I listened to the first disk of this walking around a new town I moved to about 6 years ago and I remember this event so well that the first two or three chapters of this book were incredibly familiar to me. I stopped listening because at 38 disks ripped off of a library copy of the audiobook, there was bound to be a few errors and there were. So this time, I went ahead and just read the […]

Cannonball Buster

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I have a disclaimer in my CBR7 Review #8 that most of my books are in storage.  Husband bought me 1Q84 and although it is a brick, I couldn’t put it in storage since it was a gift.  I figured Cannonball was great motivation to tackle this beast of a book.  Then I see on Amazon you can buy it as three books.  Not only is it quite beautiful, you should buy it this way to get the bang for 3 books.  And as one […]



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