Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Fake It ‘Til You Make It, Then Keep Faking It

Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham

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When your mayor declares a state of emergency, and you get a rare snow day, it’s time for an old-school reading aesthetic. Hot tea? Check. Cozy blanket? Check. Minor classic that’s been sitting on your TBR for the past three years? Check. “Stage Door Theatre Breaks in London” by AndyRobertsPhotos is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . I wasn’t terribly interested in Maugham until I read a fictionalized version of him in Tang Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, which had me idly googling to learn […]

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice”

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

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There’s always classics I’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten to yet, and summers are in part a chance to chip away at that long, long list (so many books! so little time). E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View was the latest to be ticked off the list, and it’s a nice one to get around to. Forster’s second novel, after Where Angels Fear to Tread, it’s a brisk, breezy, Austenesque volume that comes in under 200 pages: quick, spritely, and while it clearly […]

Forget your Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. The original is far more weird then they could ever manage.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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  Of the three Bronte sisters, Emily wrote only one book, Wuthering Heights, and it was a corker.  Set on the Yorkshire moors, this was not the ultra-romantic tale you might have expected from the movie versions.  No, these people are feral, and there is but a sliver of difference between love and hate in their hearts. So a brief summary.  There are two properties on the Yorkshire moors – Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.  Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights as a foundling (implied […]



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