Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Respect the Animal, Dammit.

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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Bingo square, Fauna I spent a week in Central Florida (pre-Disney era) one summer, many decades back, when I was 9 years old.  It was memorable.  From the gators roaming the backyards in the evening, to the constant state of sogginess I was in, even as a child, to the amazing show at Weeki Wachee wherein young women with amazing breath-holding skills played at being mermaids in a giant tank.  All this is to say that this book could only have been written about that […]

CBR11Bingo: Illustrated (Lore) and 3 other books I didn’t particularly like

The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Heads Will Roll by Kate McKinnon, Emily Lynne

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I’ve lumped these four together because I didn’t really like any of them (as much as that pains me, Kate McKinnon, because I do love YOU) and it’s so hard to write reviews on meh books. So I’m going to bust these out, then move onto some books I really liked. The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (The World of Lore #1) by Aaron Mahnke — my “Illustrated” Square This book was SO highly rated on Goodreads, and I really did not like it, but I’m not […]

How we slice the skin

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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CBR11Bingo – Rainbow Flag This novel was recently released and it reminds in some direct ways of other Florida writers. The most obvious connection would be to Karen Russell’s Swamplandia, a novel I really disliked, but by way of Harry Crews, a writer who I have mixed feelings about, but have enjoyed a few of his books. This book has some clear strengths, and some unfortunate weaknesses. There’s a lot to the context of the story. We are dealing with our narrator Jessa-Lynn, who finds […]



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