Well, 2020 was something, wasn't it? I'd love to tell you that Cannonball Read chugged along smoothly last year, unaffected by any issues related to the pandemic. But faintingviolet and I decided in December 2019 that 2020 would be PERFECT year to celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub by … [Read more]
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Three Old Dogs by Johannes Smithson
“It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus … [Read more]
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the once and guture king by gary gnu
Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans. But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions … [Read more]
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The Importance of Plugins by Rachel Reid
In one respect this is the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted by man. It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as “whale oil,” an inferior article in commerce. Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated … [Read more]
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The Frog and the Toad by Rachel Reid
This whale, among the English of old vaguely known as the Trumpa whale, and the Physeter whale, and the Anvil Headed whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words. He is, without doubt, the largest inhabitant of the globe; the … [Read more]
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Robbing the Roberts by Robert Robtertson
French Kiss by Frank Frankenstein
It so chanced, that after the Parsee’s disappearance, I was he whom the Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab’s bowsman, when that bowsman assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern. So, floating on the … [Read more]
's CBR12 Review No:16 ·
Genres: Biography/Memoir ·
Tags: Frank Frankenstein, Robert Robtertson, Vietnam ·
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