Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Four books for the price of one review (and a lunch break filled with books)

The Peacock Who Howled with Jackals  by Nahid Kazemi

You Can't Tame a Tiger by Stephanie Ellen Sy

RJ and the Ticking Clock by Ian Duncan

Who Needs the Dark?: The Many Ways Living Things Depend on Darkness by Laura Alary

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The other day I found a few titles I was interested in via an email newsletter. When I looked them up to see if reader copies online were available, they had thumbnails of the images, but not the full  text. I read these introductions, but was hoping to find finished copies sometime in the future (as they are all summer and fall publications). The next day what to my wondering eyes did appear? It was eight tiny reindeer…. I mean, those four titles I had […]

The depths of human nature

Terrible Faithfulness by Marlen Haushofer

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Marlen Haushofer is one of my absolute favourite authors and you cannot imagine how much it pains me that this never was translated into English. Her most famous novel, The Wall, did get translated, it got a so-so movie adaptation too, but her true strength lies in novellas and short stories. And you’re all missing out on this brilliant collection of short stories! She’s a true master of the field. I’m tagging this “horror” as well, even though they’re technically not horror stories. They’re stories […]

Maybe don’t read this one alone in the dark?

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So our leading lady, Leonora is out of the blue invited to an old friend’s bachelorette party.  Only we’re in England, so it’s called a hen party.  Or a hen do?  Something henny.  Anyway, she hasn’t talked to Clare (the hen / bride) in nearly a decade.  She’s not really sure why she’s invited, but she asks another friend to go too (she’s also invited).  The house they end up at is in the woods, and kinda creepy.  Leonora is called Lee, Nora, and Leo, […]



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