Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Tackling a Classic

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

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Usually, the Read Harder Challenge tasks are broad, and it’s up to you to decide how you want to fulfill them. But every so often they come up with a very narrow one that leaves me annoyed. This year, that task is #8 – a classic from the Zero to Well Read podcast (which is fair enough; they are attempting to promote their podcast to potential listeners). However, it didn’t give us a lot of choices. Some I had read (The Great Gatsby, Their Eyes Were […]

Plays Wrap Up

Oedipus by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Amadeus by Peter Schaffer

Deeper and Deeper by Matt Berns

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Oedipus – No Rating This is about the fiftieth time I’ve read this play, and I always enjoy it. It’s one of those plays I read when I was moving from being a reader to being a thinker about reading. I even wrote an essay about it in tenth grade. I have no clue what I wrote, but I started it at 10 pm the night before it was due. I had already gone to bed and then I suddenly remembered it. I think I […]

This fire left me feeling tepid

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I don’t normally take advice from the interwebs, but when I took a short “what should you read next quiz” that was posted to the CBR book chat page, the resulting recommendation intrigued me. Home Fire was described as a retelling of Antigone set in modern-day London. I haven’t read any Greek tragedy since high school, so I thought this could make an interesting study, to compare the classic with the modern. I have to confess, Greek tragedies were never my thing. I ate up all manner […]



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