Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Read the book Trump can’t!

The Muller Report by Robert Mueller

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5 stars is somewhat misleading. I mean, it’s a government report. It isn’t riveting. Highlights:   Edition: I am using the Brown Books Publishing Group Edition because it was cheap. It has a foreword by Lt. Col. Allen B. West (Ret.), and an introduction by Hon. Dan Boren. One is Republican, one a Democrat. Neither one seems very happy about the current state of politics. Because this kindle edition does not use page numbers, I will use location numbers. ALl typos are my mistakes. Cool, […]

Everyone should read this

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

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Disclaimer: I received an ARC via Netgalley.   Shortly after I finished this book, I put a quote from it up on the board in my classroom. At one point, Kendi argues that white supremacy is also anti-white and a form of genocide on whites. This is in addition to the attacks on non-whites. The interesting thing is that the black students (I use black because not all of the students are American citizens) were all nodding their heads, and the white students were all […]

Should read about police

Policing the Planet by Jordan T Camp

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I should note that I am most likely a little less left leaning than the majority of Verso readers. I have the publishers, it makes me think, and I always learn something. But my politics are less revolutionary and radical. On one hand, this book is a little repetitive and slightly misnamed. I’m not sure why it is policing the planet when the essay focus on the US. There is mention of Toronto and many of the groups interviewed have voiced support for Palestine, but […]

A little trip to Sweden

Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky

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May 2019 NYRB Selection Look at that cover. What’s not to love? And then you have lines like this, “I looked at the two herrings, the two herrings looked a me, and none of us said anything” (25). On one level the story is about a man and his lover going on vacation to Sweden. One the other hand is it that or the story the character wrote about two people going on vacation. Then it is also a story of saving a child from […]

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In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum

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Hilsum’s biography of Marie Colvin, the reporter who was killed in 2012, is a well written, rose colored glasses off type of biography. Drawing on interviews as well as Colvin’s diary entries, Hilsum presents a complicated portrait of a woman. It is refreshing to read a book about a woman who seems so on point and is just as problematic as the rest of us.  When you read or listened to Colvin, you always had the impression that she was on top of everything.  It […]

Good Start to a New Series

The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

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Disclaimer: I received a free ARC of THE LONG CALL by Ann Cleeves from Macmillan in an exchange for an honest review. The first book I read by Cleeves was the fifth book in her Shetland series, which is not the way to start that series. But eventually because people I knew loved Vera, I started to watch it, and then watched Shetland. So, when an opportunity came to get in on a new series, I grabbed it. Matthew Venn is not your normal brooding […]



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