Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I've been doing this since 2015, and though I'm not going to read a hundred books a year, I plan on doing this for the foreseeable future. I also maintain the Cannonball Read database, and make infrequent updates on our reading habits. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ingres77's Quick Questions interview.)

ingres77's Reviews:

A couple of horror novels to prove I still read books.

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Bad Seed by William March

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The Bad Seed (1954) – 4 stars I’ve been intending to write this review for some time….which means I’m really struggling to dredge up memories of the book. Published in 1954, The Bad Seed tells the story of Rhoda Penmark, an 8 year old sociopath, and her mother, who is uncovering the truth of her daughter’s callous indifference to human suffering. Rhoda murders a classmate over a penmanship award that she felt she deserved, and she would go on to murder the maintenance man at […]

In which I write 1,200 words about non-book things

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There is a long history of “public intellectuals” in America. Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton all the way down to Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag. When I was a younger man, I became fascinated with the idea of a public intelligentsia. Not any specific person, but the idea of knowledgeable, erudite experts who wrote and spoke for public, rather than academic, consumption. When YouTube became a thing and old clips that had previously been difficult to find became readily available to anyone with an interest, […]

The movie scared me so bad it took 20 years to read the book.

Ring by Koji Suzuki

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This movie played a significant role in my life 20 years ago. I was a huge cinephile, and watched movies all the time. I don’t remember the exact sequence that led to me watching it for the first time, but this was the movie to watch if you were a fan of horror movies in the early 2000s. there was a florescence in Japanese horror that was kicked off by this movie, which, in turn, influenced movies being made around the world. And I enjoyed […]

Getting caught up on unreviewed books from last year

The Hustler by Walter Tevis

Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

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My world fell apart last November with the election of Donald Trump, and I’m still trying to put the pieces back together. Nothing literal (lucky me). I’ve just spent the past few months detached from….everything outside of my personal bubble. I’m getting back to normal, though. No less angry – but better able to be a part of the world, I guess. Unfortunately, reading has been one of the things that has fallen by the wayside. I haven’t had the mental energy to read and […]

Taking a chance can pay off

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

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There’s a part of me – a big part of me – that loves hunting through discount tables and used book stores, looking for treasures long abandoned by people unknown, or those never discovered and left to be sold for bargain prices. But there’s another part of me that is saddened by the amazing things people pour their heart into that never get discovered, and are left to be found by people willing to gamble a few dollars on forgotten and unwanted books. The Storied […]

I’ve read 18 books this year. 7 of them were read in the last week.

Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang

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I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts at work, and reading Harry Potter with my son at home. That hasn’t left a lot of space in my life for reading for me. I’ve kind of made up for that over the last week, but I’m still quite a bit behind where I should be this year. I think I haven’t generally read a lot of contemporary fiction because it seems to often consist of bad things happening to broken people. Even looking at the […]



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