Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Libra by Don DeLillo

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Read as part of CBR11 Bingo: Birthday. Lee Harvey Oswald’s birthday was October 18 (making him a libra, hence the title!). Two things are common with both mass shooters and high profile assassins: 1. They are almost always male. 2. They almost always have some sort of personality disorder which makes it difficult for them to fit into polite society. Fringe groups prey on these kinds of people. They suck their soul to the marrow, leave nothing left, and abandon them when their presence becomes an inconvenience. […]

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation

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I was listening to this one and I almost stopped it a few times. But something clicked with the narrative and I kept with it. I would say I didn’t end up hating it, like I thought I might, and while I didn’t really connect with it, it was interesting, and had me thinking about how it might look or be structure today. This novel is from 1977 and takes place within the culture of the New York financial district. It uses the World Trade […]

I have no clue what I read. I mean, for real.

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Okay, people, I’m now officially 21 reviews behind. The unholy combination of a new summer teaching gig, reading-but-not-reviewing, and currently being on vacation at my parents’ house has sort of let the reviewing fall away. But my mom is working tonight, and everyone else is sort of doing their own thing. Let’s do this. I’m starting with a review I drafted, oh, I don’t know, a month ago (confirmed by Goodreads that I did indeed read this 5 weeks ago). My sister is an avid […]



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