Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have five year old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

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“I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life. I don’t regret it’*

N0S4A2 by Joe Hill

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Bingo Square: Adaptation As a child Vic McQueen finds a shortcut to lost things through the Shorter Way Bridge. On her bicycle, she can zip through one side to wherever a missing thing is on the other. Her mother’s bracelet. A special toy. One day she meets a girl who mentions a man Vic should avoid at all costs. Charles Manx likes to take children to Christmasland in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith. A place where it is Christmas every day, a playground of everything you […]

Just one last job

The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

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Bingo Square: Money! Anton Waker grew up making money illegally. His parents deal in stolen goods and, with his cousin Aria, Anton has made a lucrative business supplying false passports and social security numbers to illegal immigrants. But he wants out of the family business. He’s ‘gone straight’ at a desk job, working his way up through the company, and about to be married. His seemingly ordered world falls apart when a routine background check at work shows his college diploma is as fake as […]

I wish I liked this more

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

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Bingo Square: No Money! (I got this from the tiny free library nearby) This is a memoir come advice book I guess. It covers most of Offerman’s life from birth to early career, Parks and Rec success, and meeting his wife, Megan Mullally. Interspersed throughout are humorous takes on how to be a man, discussions on religion, woodworking, and so on. I guess what you’d expect from a book by Nick Offerman. I had really enjoyed the book he wrote with his wife, The Greatest […]

“There’s really no point in asking what if? The only question worth asking is: what’s next?”

Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John

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Bingo Square: Repeat (Music) He’s a music legend, what else can you say? This book takes the reader through the entirety of Elton John’s life, from his early years in the London suburb of Pinner, where he is a lonely only child with a disinterested father (and parents who really shouldn’t be together anymore), to his early shows in America that rocket him to stardom, his drug addiction and getting clean and his family life that he has now. Written in a way that you […]

The ties that bind us

The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel

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Bingo Square: Music Gavin is a little lost. After making it as a journalist in New York, his girlfriend has left him and he spirals into making up quotes for his stories. Found out and fired, he heads back to his hometown in Florida, humiliated. He also suffers terribly from heat stroke, an affliction he’s escaped on leaving. Taking a job with his sister, she shows him a photo of a child that resembles her and has Gavin’s ex-girlfriend’s last name. The timeline fits. Is […]

Return to the Arena

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

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Bingo Square: Green Suzanne Collins is back with another book in the Hunger Games world. This time it’s a prequel, following Coriolanus Snow – later President Snow, of course – as he navigates the world of the Capitol. 18 Years old, the once glorious house of Snow is struggling. Their money is gone, and all that’s left is their penthouse apartment and their class status. Snow needs to make it to graduation and go to university in an attempt to keep himself, his grandmother and […]



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