Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Everybody please read this so I can have somebody to talk to about it.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) by Marlon James

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NB: I received a gratis copy of the book from the publisher but that has not affected the content of my review. “You want to know what’s my purpose? To kill the men who killed my brother and father, leaving a grandfather fucking my own mother. To kill the men who killed my brother, because they killed him because he killed one of theirs. Who killed one of his, who killed one of theirs, and on and on while even gods die. My purpose is […]

Fury is a cloud that leaves my mind empty and my heart black.

Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

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So this book is pretty wild. Something that makes me laugh about this book in general is watching a myriad set of readers try to figure out what to do here. The language is dreamy and complex and rough too. There’s long passages of narration in which a complex thought develops or a conversation happens with a kind of folk wisdom punctuated by aphorism and fable occurs. And then there will be a scene in which graphic and violent sex is described in stark realistic […]

Man Booker 2015–nothing brief about this weighty book!

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I make it a point to read the winner of the Man Booker Award each year. I’ve managed to accomplish this task for the last three years running, even if I have to wait a bit at the library for the book. I don’t always get to the shortlist nominees, however. And sometimes, my predictions for the winner are wrong. Of the 2015 shortlisted books, I’d only read Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen (which I thought was very good), so I’d been pulling for that one. […]



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