Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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CBRBINGO: Friends—”I was most flattered when I was called the Steven Spielberg of Sitcoms, and in response to that, Steven called me and told me that he wanted to be known as the James Burrows of movies.”

Directed by James Burrows by James Burrows

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I bought this at Book Outlet earlier this year (or late last year? what is time) and didn’t feel any particular rush to get to it. Then James Burrows died in June, and now just felt like the right time. This is a career-focused memoir told by James Burrows to Eddy Friedfield, who compiled it all into a book. You can definitely tell that Burrows is not a writer (a fact that he opines at least four times throughout the book—is this irony or what?) […]

“We all love an easy buck.”

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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CBR18 BINGO: Wealth because much wealth was gained and lost “Temptation has driven  human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we’ve learned from history and, this time, we can’t be fooled. Then it happens again.” I’m old enough to remember the 1987 stock market crash. The dot-com bubble of the early 2000s dashed my hopes of getting rich off of the stock options I […]

Helpless by Jessica Knoll

Helpless by Jessica Knoll

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I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. Look, this will be short. This was a terrible book. I really enjoyed Knoll’s other books so I kept re-checking what I was reading to make sure that I had not made a mistake somewhere. This was somehow worse than Fifty Shades of Grey. Worse. I didn’t even know that was possible. And then there’s mysteries tied all together (poorly) a main character who is just aggravating and then pointless sex […]

One Last Word by Suzanne Park

One Last Word by Suzanne Park

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Well this had an interesting premise (what if messages you meant to be sent after you died get sent before you do?) and then it just had way too much nonsense with a relationship that never felt realized throughout the book. Also, the main character, Sara sucks in my mind. I just got tired of her not even a quarter into the book. All in all, just a so-so romance novel. One Last Word follows Sara Chae, who recently quits her job when her bosses […]

“Our survival may depend on our talking to one another.”

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

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CBR18 Bingo- One, because it’s the first book in a series. Centuries in the future, a group of seven individuals are summoned to the planet Hyperion, in order to make a pilgrimage to the legendary Time Tombs, eerie structures that are moving backward in time. The Time Tombs are guarded by a creature known as the Shrike, which is said to grant one wish to each pilgrim. The Shrike is seriously terrifying; it is made of blades, can control time, and is known for impaling […]

The cat distribution system is in place because it works

Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir

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CBR18 Bingo – Refuge: a pregnant cat and her owner take refuge with someone who didn’t ask for this. A few months ago I got a black cat, which many took as an invitation to talk about how black cats have it worse than others. Look at my cat. He likes the window that makes him hard to photograph. After Night Guest, I wouldn’t have read another book by Hildur Knútsdóttir, but Narfna’s review of Dead Weight reassured me that the black cat would be […]



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