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Cannonball Read III: Book 7: Budget Travel through Space and Time by Albert Goldbarth
Albert Goldbarth’s poetry collection Budget Travel through Space and Time is one of the more cohesive collections of poetry I’ve encountered in recent years. Using history, science, and mathematics in equal measure, Goldbarth explores some of the more influential events in his life in a dry and humorous fashion. Take his riffing on infomercial...
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Cannonball Read III: Book 6: Bespelling Jane Austen
I’m not intentionally on a streak of monster mash lit. That this follows Classics Mutilated on my reading list is pure coincidence. The similarities between the two end at the genre. Bespelling Jane Austen is a collection of four short novels resetting Jane Austen’s work as paranormal romance. Ironically, the most successful entry in...
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Cannonball Read III, Book 5: Classics Mutilated
Seth Grahame-Smith, what have you wrought? In the wake of his collaborative novel with Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, many publishers have allowed other writers to slap some monsters into a classic novel and call it a new work. There’s Android Karenina, Little Women and Werewolves, and my favorite (on title alone)...
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Cannonball Read III, Book 4: My Work Is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti
My Work Is Not Yet Done is a horror novel for people who think they don’t like horror novels. Thomas Ligotti, one of the lesser-known masters of modern weird fiction, tells a story of corporate horror that will ring plausible, if not true, to anyone who has ever held a job. It’s a remarkable...
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Cannonball Read III, Book 3: Misery by Stephen King
Is there anything more intimate then the relationship between a reader and a book they love? Obviously, yes. But when you pick up those pages and get into the story, nothing else matters anymore. The world stops and you don’t realize time has passed until the sky and moon have switched places and you’ve...
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Cannonball Read III: Book 2: Sliver by Ira Levin
Ira Levin is the author responsible for some of the most thrilling American novels of the twentieth century. He brought us Rosemary’s Baby, about a woman who thinks her new apartment building is conspiring against her unborn child, The Stepford Wives, about an idyllic community that seems to force perfection on its residents, and...
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Cannonball Read III: Book 1: On Writing Horror
What is Cannonball Read? It is a friendly quantity reading competition courtesy of Pajiba where a group of regular commenters (or eloquent, if you will) race to read 52 books in a year (or 26, or even 13). It’s a lot of fun. There’s even a group blog this year, but I’m not going...
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Book Review: Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People by Amy Sedaris
In 2006, comedian/actor/playwright/cupcake and cheeseball entrepreneur Amy Sedaris released her how-to hospitality book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence. This unexpected career shift fit her perfectly. It provided her a showcase for her many interests outside of public knowledge in a comedic framework that still managed to inform the reader of interesting and...
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