Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I am a junior cannonballer who primarily reads mystery, dystopian, historical fiction, and YA. 3rd year participating.

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“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”

Educated by Tara Westover

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CBR 16 Bingo – Dreams: Tara dreamed of an education, and then fulfilled those dreams. “Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.” We selected this book one month last year for my book club, but I didn’t end up reading it then because I was insanely busy that month […]

Did we really need this?

One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus

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CBR 16 Bingo – Part 2: The second instalment in the series. Since Simon died, there have been many gossip blogs trying to copy his, but none as interesting as this new one, which, instead of being a blog, it’s a game of truth or dare. The first target learns that if you refuse to play it is an automatic truth, and chaos ensues from there. People are making their choices, and one, eventually, results in death, causing a new mystery at Bayview High. Personally, […]

Just one more chapter… and then its been 2 hours

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

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CBR 16 Bingo – Part 1: The first book in what I originally thought was a duology but actually isn’t. It’s still the 1st part, even if it isn’t out of 2 parts. You know a book has my interest if the description on Goodreads starts with “Pay close attention and you might solve this.” It tells the story of 5 kids all stuck in detention. However, only 4 make it out of the classroom alive. The police believe the death wasn’t an accident. Yet, […]

Great for sports fans and non-sports-fans alike (bingo)

The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown, Gregory Mone (adaptor)

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CBR 16 Bingo – Rings: Olympics “He saw the power of trust, the strength of the affection that sometimes grew between a pair of young men. Or among a boatload of them striving honestly to do their best.” My family has a history of rowing. Both my parents participated in the sport, and now they indoctrinated me and my brother with it as well. Because of this, my interpretation of this book might be different than someone who read it without understanding the sport, since […]

“What would happen if we spoke the truth?”

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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CBR 16 Bingo – Pride: LGBTQ+ author “I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy” I read this book for my book club in June, for pride month, since we try to plan our books in acordance to the different heritage months. We also try to have diversity in the types of books we choose, and we hadn’t had a graphic novel yet this year, so we ended up settling on Fun Home as our book. […]

I don’t know what to say, except that you need to read this book

Scythe by Neal Shushterman

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CBR 16 Bingo – Tech: Set in the future where they have a lot of new and interesting tech. “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.” My brother recommended that I read this book and given that […]



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