Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Alchemy

Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis

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I’ve been enjoying the tv show Lodge 49. It’s a very low-stakes but entertaining show about a guy at a dead end in his life who joins a secret society and gets entangled in some things while learning about life. It’s more character-driven than I thought it would be and I think that’s why I’m connecting with it. At any rate, when looking up books to read for fans of the show, this was the top recommendation by far. I can see why. It can accurately […]

I feel like this is the kind of book that sticks with you

True Grit by Charles Portis

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We all know this story, right? I feel like a lot of people read this book a decade ago when the Coen brothers released their adaptation, starring Jeff Bridges. Prior to that, of course, was the 1969 movie starring John Wayne, for which he famously won his only Oscar. I say “famous” because I grew up hearing how he was the greatest movie star of all time and only won one golden statue, as if that were somehow and oversight that invalidated the whole award […]

A Classic and a Classic and a Classic

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The Picture of Dorian Gray – 5/5 Stars I wasn’t sure I was going to listen to this audiobook or not. I like the era (love Sherlock Holmes) and I’ve read a handful of Oscar Wilde plays, but never his fiction. Luckily, Simon Prebble is a great reader (he narrated The Moonstone earlier this year for me and I like that a lot), and it turns out this is a great novel. It’s interesting because I have a huge schema for what I thought this […]



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