Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Dear Lord, This Was Awful, But Dammit it Stuck the Landing

Hide and Seek by James Patterson

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Bingo: Success. The two main characters are huge successes in their fields. Hide and Seek by James Patterson is terrible by any measure. It’s poorly written (and this is when Patterson was writing his own stuff I believe and not pairing up with ex presidents and a team of ghost writers). Its female main character is an insufferable Mary Sue. The antagonist is a standard issue violent sociopath whose actions are boringly cliche. The plot feels like a rip off of Sydney Sheldon’s Rage of […]

Dr. Seuss et al

Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog by Mo Willems

The Duckling Gets a Cookie? by Mo Willems

This is not my Hat by Jon Klassen

The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka

Boys Will Be Boys by James Patterson

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

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I recently asked my high school seniors what were some of their favorite book when they were younger. These are 18 year olds now, so mostly born in 2005, and while there were some older classics in the mix like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, most of the answers were books I had never heard of before. So I went to the library and checked some of them out to see what they had enjoyed. While there, I checked out a few other […]

Fact: Dolly Parton is an International Treasure

Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson

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Nobody is disputing that Dolly is a most awesome person, in every possible way.   My mother has a weakness for country music; I am positive I was born knowing the words to Jolene. And this book is for-sure compelling – the suspense-lit version of a catchy song. But… there were issues.  The character development for Ethan felt tacked on for depth late in the process.  It felt awkward; never flowed in the same way as the rest of the book. And the trafficking was a […]

The Charles Lindbergh farmhouse glowed with bright, orangish lights.

Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

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I’ve never read a James Patterson novel previous to this one and I can really understand why he’s popular. It’s crazy to me, though, how much he made his life and work into an industry. The way he shops out his name for branding and co-writing credits is downright absurd to me. But don’t hate the player and all that. This is the first Alex Cross novel and the lead character is a Washington DC police detective who also was previously a forensic psychologist — […]

Episode 1-46: If Someone Calls You Fat, Eat Them

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/12/18/episode-1-46-if-someone-calls-you-fat-eat-them/ Wherein I review: 145. Private Princess (Private #14) by James Patterson 146. Bill the Galactic Hero On The Planet of Bottled Brains (Bill the Galactic Hero #3) by Harry Harrison 147. Elevation by Stephen King 148. The Surgeon’s Mate (Aubrey & Maturin #7) by Patrick O’Brian London Private is my least favorite of the private parts.  Bill the Galactic Hero keeps punning horribly like an issue of Cracked before they became actual internet journalists.  Stephen King keeps on busting out Castle Rock novellas, and […]

Episode 1-44: Overstuffed

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/11/30/episode-1-44-overstuffed/ Wherein I review: 161. Universal Harvester by John Darnielle 162, The Labyrinth Index (Library Files #9) by Charles Stross 163. The Three Secret Cities (Jack West Jr. #5) by Matthew Reilly 164. Dark Sacred Night (Harry Bosch #21, Renee Ballard #2) by Michael Connelly 165. Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone 166. Target: Alex Cross (Alex Cross #26) by James Patterson 167. The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen 168. The Beast of Barcroft (Fatal Folklore Trilogy #1) by Bill Schweigart 169. […]



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