Cannonball Read 18

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Back to Yale, back to Yale, to prove to dad that I won’t fail (sung in Billy Madison “back to school” tune)

Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) by Leigh Bardugo

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I don’t know you guys are going to believe this, but I made up that title. It’s not a real song. I was just thinking of “Back to Yale”, since this book is set at Yale, and my brain did the rest! As my boss said today, “your words aren’t wordsing”, so we’ll see how this goes! I read Ninth House almost exactly three years ago. I think I even reviewed it here for whatever CBR we were on in January 2023. I really liked […]

Back the beginning in the underworld

Yuyu Hakusho vol 1 by Yoshihiro Togashi

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Bingo 10 Old Series Before getting to the review a little context: late 2006 or early 2007 I picked up a copy of Shonen Jump magazine (back when it still existed as a print thing one could buy in the grocery store), and eventually I bought it, and then subscribed. One of the series currently running around that time was Yuyu Hakusho; it was about ¾ of the way complete, and I read through the end of the serial publication of this series. I don’t […]

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Underworld by Don DeLillo

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Underworld exemplifies everything I love and loathe about Don DeLillo. Brilliance, frustration, depth, redundancy. All in 827 mostly readable pages. A book has to be damn good for a reader to put up with it for so long and large stretches of this book are. DeLillo is such a sensory writer; he pens time and memory through sight, smell and touch in such a way as to occasionally leave me breathless. There are passages of this book that will really stick with me. The central conceit […]



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