Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Ealbrecht

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I read 260 books last year and love to read and listen to audiobooks on my drive to work.

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Would You Want to Survive the Apocalypse?

Rescue Me From Paradise by Jordan Rivet

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This is the 4th book in the cohort series. This post will contain spoilers for the first three books.  After a meteor is tracked to hit planet Earth and kill off every living thing, the only solution is cryosleep. Citizens were randomly chosen to enter cryosleep and wake 200 years later to restart civilization. In the first three books of the series, we hear the stories from Joanna, Charlotte, and Josh’s perspectives.  We learn about the chaos that happened as the world was ending, and […]

The Shooter’s Sister

The Shooter's Sister by Paige Dearth

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Raven and her twin brother Matthew are born into poverty. Their parents are young, accidentally got pregnant, and don’t have much of a support system. Raven is born beautiful, and Matthew is born with dark eyes. This right away scares their mother, Ellen, thinking something is wrong with him. She suffers from postpartum depression. Their father tries to give his children everything he can, having a neighbor watch the children during the day so he doesn’t have to worry about them with Ellen.  After years […]

Ground Zero

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

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As an upper elementary school teacher, I’m always looking for books to suggest to my students. After hearing great things about author Alan Gratz, I knew I had to check out his books. The first book that I read by this author is Ground Zero.  This book tells the story of two different September 11ths. The first story is the one we all know to well- September 11, 2001. Brandon is 9 years old and is suspended from school; since his dad can’t leave him […]

Ugly Love

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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Tate moves in with her brother while she returns to school to earn her master’s degree. She’s not looking for love but meets her brother’s friend and neighbor Miles. They think they have the perfect arrangement with neither looking for anything. They have 2 rules: Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. What could go wrong? At first, all is going well, both are following the rules and have no problems with them. They have to find time to see each other between […]

The Girl on the Train

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For the past two years, Rachel has been living with an old friend from college, she moved in after her husband had an affair and they divorced. One thing that led to the affair? Rachel’s drinking, which she is still struggling with today. Drinking led to a divorce and even to her losing her job, embarrassed and not wanting to tell her flat mate, she continues on, leaving each day as she would for work. Every day, Rachel does the same thing, she rides the […]

Keep Quiet

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Jake’s son Ryan is growing up before his eyes and he doesn’t have the close relationship with him that he wishes that he had. Part of that is his own fault, he’s been busy with the business he started after losing his job. One night, Jake’s wife Pam tells Jake to go pick up their son from the movies, hoping that spending some unexpected time together will help with their relationship. This is where everything goes wrong. Trying to be the “fun dad” Jake agrees […]



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