Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

An extraordinary friendship (cannonball!)

The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien by John Hendrix

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The Mythmakers is a graphic story written for middle schoolers and older. The narrators of this biography/history are a lion (CS Lewis) and a Wizard (JRR Tolkien). The Mythmakers covers the life stories of each man in brief as well as going into detail on their ideas about storytelling and myths. Lewis and Tolkien shared some remarkable things in common but clearly they were two very different men whose friendship inspired them to write their greatest works. Yet their differences (other relationships, perhaps jealousy, differences […]

November Odds and Ends

The Hot Rock by Donald Westlake

The Dark Tower by CS Lewis

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk

The Feathers of Death by Simon Raven

The Drowned Cities by Paulo Bacigalupi

Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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The Hot Rock – 3/5 Stars A farcical kind of heist book. John Dortmunder is getting out of prision and his old pal immediately brings him a caper to work on. Together with three other specialists, the friends will be stealing an emerald from a museum that has cultural and sentimental value for two warring African nations. One of the nations currently possesses the emerald, while the other is hiring the thieves. Paid a salary, plus the promise of a large reward, Dortmunder begins to […]

CBR Bingo: Youths!

The Secret History of Us by Jessi Kirby

Prince Caspian by CS Lewis

The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis

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CBR Bingo: YOUTHS! I missed posting last night but am determined to knock just a few more reviews out before the week is over! All of the below qualify for the “Youth” category of CBR Bingo which makes them pretty easy to lump together for tonight’s lightening round of catching up on Cannonball! !! The Secret History of Us, Jessi Kirby In the “YA” faction of youthdom we have The Secret History of Us which follows Olivia (Liv) as she wakes up from a coma […]

Back for the Bingo!

The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells

The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

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I love you dearly but if I’m going to be throwing up, I’d really rather be at home.

Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown

Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon

Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibrain

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain

Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky

Start Now! by Chelsea Clinton

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Winterfair Gifts – 3/5 Stars This is a reread from a few years ago when I read all of the Miles Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. I also started rereading them last year and got through about half before I stopped short, but I bet this will get me started started again. This book also starts out or sets of to tell the story through an alternate perspective from the other books. So far we’ve had Miles being the lead protagonist in the most […]

At least that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing.

The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

The Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis

Prince Caspian by CS Lewis

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis

The Silver Chair by CS Lewis

The Last Battle by CS Lewis

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I am not going to review of the books of the series for separate and specific ratings. Instead, I will give the whole series a rating (five stars for all kinds of reasons) which is not to say they’re all of equal quality or all great or any of them perfect. But because of their influence, their precision, their quality, and my own specific sentimental value…well, I just can’t do otherwise. The other thing is: I am not a Christian and I used to be. […]



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