“When you have gone through a sort of travesty of your own making, failure begins to feel like part of you. You get used to it.” Jennifer McGaha grew up in an upper middle class North Carolina family; after a volatile first marriage in college she reconnected with her high school boyfriend, David, and they got married. Despite being an accountant David managed to ruin the family’s finances during the Great Recession of 2008. Jennifer, an adjunct English teacher, was blissfully aware of her husband’s […]
“He had been pretending, then, to look into his past, when really he was looking into some alternate reality, some different version of his own history, some unseen world.”
This was an outstanding book and I don’t want to give too much away so I apologize for the brevity of my review. Just know that I emphatically recommend Liz Moore’s The Unseen World! Ada Sibelius is being raised by her single father, David, in late 1970s Boston. Like her father Ada is very intelligent, prodigal even. She is home schooled by her father at his research lab in everything from computer science to literature and while she has no friends her own age she is […]
“His power wasn’t something he possessed, but a skittish companions had to woo to his side, and who’d vanish as soon as he showed fear”
Spoonbenders is a slow burning story that I urge you to stick with despite its meandering narrative. I frequently put this one down and thought about giving up but my sister had warned me that it may take a while to get going so I stuck with it. Ultimately this is a strange but enjoyable book about the psychic Telemachus family in 1995 Chicago. “I can’t believe this is allowed by state law. You can’t just put a pile of shaved beef—” “Italian beef,” she said. […]
“But I have told the truth. Isn’t that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.”
Code Name Verity has made the rounds on Cannonball since its publication. I read a lot of books about WW2 and enjoy well written YA Fiction so it seemed like a perfect match to my tastes. We’re all friends here so I am going to be perfectly honest with you. I almost quit this book. A few times. I am so glad I did not. Unfortunately I can’t properly explain my initial reaction or my wholehearted turnaround without giving away the plot. So I shall do […]
“This is the first time I will tell my story in English, a language still new to me. The journey to this moment has been a long one.”
Hyeonseo Lee came to prominence after she gave a TEDTalk in 2013. Hyeonseo Lee is not her given name, it is actually the seventh name she has had and is a name she gave herself because it means sunshine and good fortune. Lee’s mother left her biological father when she was an infant to marry the man she had originally wanted to marry, the man Hyeonseo grew up believing was her father, which is where her first name change occurred. The rest came after she defected as […]
“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.”
Last year I made a grand plan to reread some of the books I read in high school and college. While I read several books for the second and third time (and in the instances of Perks of Being a Wallflower and Ender’s Game the 8th or 9th) I didn’t manage to read any of the books I read in AP English or my freshman lit course besides A Prayer for Owen Meany and The Great Gatsby. I guess I just hate the thought of missing out on the chance to read […]
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