Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Holiday Reads: Alpine Edition

The Clinic by Cate Quinn

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

The Dry by Jane Harper

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

A Sincere Warning About the Entity in your House by Jason Arnopp

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

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Apparently, all I need in life is a pile of books, a fridge full of cheese and diet coke and a massive tent. The Clinic (Cate Quinn) ** Certified tough chick (™) Meg checks into an exclusive rehab clinic, not to treat her own burgeoning drug problem, but to discover what happened to her sister Haley, a famous actress who died on the grounds. The clinic claims suicide, but Meg doesn’t buy it and sets out to investigate what really happened.  I read this book […]

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

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I ended up spending a lot of time on the wikipedia page for this one because as I read I wanted to understand better what was going on. Not the plot, which is relatively simple, but the behind the scenes kind of stuff that I clearly wasn’t understanding. This book is a satire of a minor “literary” or kind of hack writing subgenre of the bucolic/pastoral British novel. Specifically the highly sentimental treacly kind of nonsense that probably doesn’t exist nearly as much these days. […]

What if PG Wodehouse had written Wuthering Heights?

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Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons is a marvelous send up of brooding romantic literature in the vein of the Bronte sisters. In addition to a crazy woman upstairs, a dark and hunky cad, crazy gibberish talking locals, and a plucky dauntless heroine, Gibbons gives her reader some hilarious dialogue and overall goofiness that is difficult to resist. Gibbons represents the best of British humor a la Wodehouse and Jerome K Jerome and of women writers of the 1930s such as Dawn Powell and […]



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