Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Monster Take on Sherlock Holmes

A Study In Emerald by Neil Gaiman

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I’m not usually one for graphic novels, but I will read Neil Gaiman’s grocery list, so when my friend brought this over and said ‘you gotta read this,’ I took the opportunity. “A Study In Emerald” closely follows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original “A Study in Scarlet,” but with cooler characters and monsters. To give anything else of the plot away will spoil the joy of this story too much, so I’ll leave it at that and let those who love Gaiman and Sherlock Holmes […]

There is grandeur in this view of life (CBR12Bingo: Green – Double bingo)

Human Errors by Nathan Lents

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Success gets all the headlines, but I’m far more interested in failures. Success can be attributable to luck, or timing, or actual skill, or some combination of small factors that ultimately propel a project to a good outcome. Failure? More often than not, you know why something failed, and that makes the next attempt better. Failure is a sign of reach exceeding grasp, as it should be. I don’t care why something works, I want to know why it doesn’t. The human body is no […]

How green is your valley?

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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Wohlleben is the manager of a forest trust in Germany, and over his years in the forest he has learned a thing or two about what makes trees tick.  The Hidden Life of Trees shares a number of his insights and they are mind-blowing: did you know that trees ‘speak’ to each other through their root systems?  That they can keep the stumps of relatives who have been chopped down alive for decades?  That slow growth for most tree species is a feature, not a […]



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