Cannonball Read 17

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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine by William Rosen

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Less than 100 years ago, medicine was unrecognizable from what we have today. Drugs to treat infections, diseases, any kind of illness simply did not exist the way they did now. Post-operative infections ran rampant, and while doctors knew about germs they didn’t have any way to treat the issues they caused. And then in the 1930s and 1940s, small glimmers of hope appeared: antibiotics. Of course, once discovered, antibiotics still took decades of research and testing to hit the market. And they brought their […]

Eve Gardiner is a BAMF

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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This book was so cool! A network of lady spies during WWI, and then a mission after WWII to find a woman that brings it all full circle. Romance, espionage, intrigue — this book would make one hell of a movie. The story is told from two perspectives. In 1915, Eve Gardiner finds herself recruited into a network of spies, where her young looks and persistent stammer allow her to pass as a nervous waitress in a restaurant full of Nazis. She keeps her eyes […]

“If everyone who’s worth a damn just leaves as soon as possible, then what’s left?”

The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark by Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, Corey Ryan Forrester

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Apparently the authors — Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan and Corey Ryan Forrester – are well known on the internets as being Liberal Rednecks. I’ve never heard of them prior to reading this book, but I was pleasantly surprised at the content here. It’s a lot more intelligent and thoughtful than I was expecting, and makes me want to seek out more of their work. “In our humble12 opinion, the South in general’s attitude regarding the war and everything that came after needs a major paradigm […]

The Marsh Girl

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Where the Crawdads Sing begins with a death: in 1969, a young man from town – popular, handsome – is found with a broken neck after a fall. The police (and the town) immediately suspects murder, specifically that the infamous Marsh Girl killed Chase. “Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, […]

Heartbreaking because it’s based on so many girls

Factory Girl by Josanne La Valley

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The story told in this book, in which young girls are taken forcefully from their families and forced to work off debt that just keeps accruing, brings to mind stories of indentured servants coming to America. Except, it’s set in present day China. In order to keep their small family farm, Roshen’s family allows the Hubei Work Wear Company to take her to their factory in southern China to sew uniforms. They’re not too concerned, because everyone says these factories are a great opportunity for […]

This will end up in my top 3 for the year

My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture by Guy Branum

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“Because a goddess’s job isn’t to be good. It’s to have compelling stories lyre players can tell about her at the court of kings and princes.” This book kept popping up in my Overdrive recommendations, and I kept ignoring it because I thought it was going to be a dive into reality TV and…meh. But it has a great rating on Goodreads and I needed an audio book so I finally cave and I’M SO GLAD I DID. Branum grew up “different” (gay, kind of […]



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