Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Opus the Penguin Stories

A Wish for Wings that Work: An Opus Christmas Story by Berkeley Breathed

The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story by Berkeley Breathed

Goodnight Opus by Berkeley Breathed

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I don’t know about you, but I keep a shelf of my childhood favorite books amongst the rest of my books. Re-Readathon had a prompt for re-reading a childhood favorite, so I knew I had some on hand, but I forgot that I didn’t have a copy of Strega Nona until I went looking for it. So, once staring at the shelf I grabbed my copy of A Wish for Wings that Work: An Opus Christmas Story by Berkeley Breathed and also The Last Basselope […]

Irredeemable First Person

You by Caroline Kepnes

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Bingo: Map. Obsessive narrator maps every detail of his stalkee’s life. Have you ever read a book so awful it actually made you angry? Such is Caroline Kepnes’s You for me. The plot is easily summed up: a deranged bookstore worker fixates on a customer, getting more and more obsessed so that he commits multiple murders. He follows her, he accesses her email, he is a peeping tom, he sexually obsesses in repulsive fashion. The narrator is absolutely repugnant. The murders are the least of […]

Dear Faerie: This is Why Children Go No-Contact With Their Parents

A Divided Duty by Seanan McGuire

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Trust the faeries to bring on the soap opera messes. One of the consequences of being both incredibly long lived—or even effectivly immortal—and being so variant that you’re more of a species cluster than a true cohesive group is that when the interpersonal dramas hit, they really hit. If you constructed a push-pin map that covered October Daye’s friends, family and allegiances at the start of the series and now, at book twenty, you would be shocked at how things have changed.  But let’s take […]

Let’s Show The Buggers That We Will Rule This Place Again From Their Waste

Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

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Have you ever gotten the feeling that here, in the time we find ourselves in, that perhaps everything is just a bit to much? Life is an omnishambles and you can’t bare to open the news because you can’t stand to see the news; is anyone going to care about the threats of climate change or emerging pandemics; does anyone really care about the future we are leaving our children? Forget the future, does the government care about children right here, right now? Or is […]

Gentrification, as they understood it, was something other people did.

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

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CBR18 Bingo: Sheep – Anna and Tom daydream about buying a dairy in France and making artisan sheep and goat’s milk cheeses. Tom had argued that Sicily had been a conformist, lazy choice, in a tone that suggested that the conformist wasn’t him. ― Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection An identical struggle for a different life motivated an entire sector of their generation. ― Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection Berlin was, to all intents and purposes, their main pastime—exploring it, understanding it, feeling part of it. In a way […]

The Wedding Crasher

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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This is actually my second time reading The Wedding People by Alison Espach. I read it for the first time last summer, having never heard of it, but having found it in my local used bookstore. And I loved it. So when “E” of my book club, R.A.G.E, chose it for her selection, I jumped at the chance to re-read and discuss with friends. And, once again, I loved it. My taste in literature tends to run mostly towards fantasy and sci-fi, but I also […]



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