Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random hobbies!

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STEM romance novella

Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood

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After we read The Love Hypothesis for book club, I found a trio of novellas also by Ali Hazelwood. I quickly decided that I needed to read these as well. So, now that I’ve finished Below Zero and Stuck With You, I was able to get Under One Roof (2022) by Hazelwood on audiobook. Like Hazelwood’s other books, Under One Roof involves a woman in STEM–Mara, an environmental engineer who works for the EPA–a hunky man, misunderstandings, and love in the end. Mara is best friends with the women who starred in the previous […]

“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.”

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

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The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) by Pip Williams was chosen by my book club. I began this book with high expectations. It has 4.4 stars on Amazon, and is a New York Times bestseller. The blurb stated that this book is: “[d]elightful…[a] captivating and slightly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on The Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.” Well, I love reading and words and feminist literature, so I figured this was right up my alley. Esme is a young girl being cared […]

“I know the world will survive us–and in some ways it will be more alive.”

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

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I first heard about The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021) by John Green in my book club. We chose to read it. However, there were problems borrowing it from the library, and some of my friends did not like it. Thus, we ended up moving on without devoting a book club meeting to it. But by this point, I was intrigued, so I borrowed the audio version and listened to it in my car. The Anthropocene Reviewed was read by John Green and is made […]

“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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I’ve read Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, so it felt almost inevitable that I would read her latest book. Sea of Tranquility came out this year (2022), and includes a couple of characters that we first met in The Glass Hotel (although it is definitely not necessary to read The Glass Hotel first). I found it to be an interesting, well-written, imaginative novel. St. John Mandel did an impressive job in balancing her different characters and intertwining her storylines. I only had one small issue with the believability of […]

“I’m as wary of certainty as I am of good vibes and positive thinking.”

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough

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I was looking for another audiobook to listen to during my commute when I saw Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing (2021) by Lauren Hough available at my library. The blurb described it as a memoir about leaving a cult. It sounded like an interesting topic, and so I picked it up. I wasn’t sure what to expect, so I was surprised when Cate Blanchett began speaking, and the first essay was the author’s experience of being a lesbian in the Air Force. At first, I thought I’d […]

It’s good to be an officer–especially if you’re a POW

The Confidence Men by Margalit Fox

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I found The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History  by Margalit Fox on NPR’s Best Books of 2021 List. I found it listed under “funny stuff,” although I probably wouldn’t categorize this book that way myself. This non-fiction story takes place during World War I, in a Turkish POW camp for British officers. We first meet Harry Jones. We learn how he joined the war, how he was taken prisoner, and how he came to be at the remote […]



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