Cannonball Read 13

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A whole bunch of horror

A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The elementals by Michael McDowell

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Later by Stephen King

The Sun Down motel by Simone St. James

The only good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The hunger by Alma Katsu

Lovecraft country by Matt Ruff

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Hi! My name is The Book Omnivore and I am a few months late to the Cannonball Read  party. I hope that’s ok. I’ve participated in CR a couple of times before but I always hesitate to join because some years I read loads of books and other years my brain refuses to read anything more complicated than the instructions for how you make tea, and I never know what kind of year it’s going to be. But having already read 27 books by May […]

Some Great, Some Not So, Some Not Even Suspense

A Century of Great Suspense Stories by Stephen King

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I got this one to listen to on drives more than thirty minutes. You can basically hear one short story each way. It is a mixed bag, both in quality and presentation. It should be noted that the audible version of this book only includes seventeen stories, the first half of the book. The rest of the book’s nineteen tales are missing. Maybe the second half is also available as a book on tape. Maybe I’ll check. The stories have been gathered by author Jeffrey […]

When the End Comes

Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura

Cell by Stephen King

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I recently read two books with apocalyptic overtones. Neither were great but both were eminently readable, if weird and unfocused… Cult X * Well then. It’s almost impossible for a book as popular as Fuminori Nakamura’s Cult X to get anything less than a 3+ star rating on GoodReads. A book usually has enough vociferous defenders who give it gratuitous 5s to put it over the top. That this one was hovering at 2.97 when I picked it up was not a good sign for […]

Magic Touch

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

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AKA The Book that Inspired the Movie that Inspired the SNL Skit “Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic.” Johnny Smith is a young teacher in a nascent relationship when his taxicab is struck head on by a drag-racing teen. He spends the next 55 months in a coma while his hospital bills reach insurmountable heights, his mother falls into a religious mania, and his girlfriend moves on with another man. When he finally wakes up and catches up on Watergate and the rest of the history he […]

Later – Stephen King (2021)

Later by Stephen King

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The newest Stephen King, and I feel like his last couple have been clicking for me in good ways. I don’t think that each of the novellas from If It Bleeds were great, but a few were. I also really liked The Outsider and very much liked The Institute. You can tell from the cover of this book that it’s part of the Hard Case Files series, but like Joyland, and even like his straight-up hardboiled detective novels, the Bill Hodges series, this book is […]



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