Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The bow is the final straw.

Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S Choi

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Extremely black and so relatable. Not to me personally.  I am the whitest person who could ever white.  But my husband is Chinese-American, and oh yeah.  My sisters-in-law would totally understand.  (Although their family was nowhere near this, thank God.  Because in that case, I probably would not be married.) Fiona Yu, young lawyer in possession of a Yale degree and an amazing wardrobe, has put her foot down.  Not gonna get married, no matter how many dates her parents set up.  And also. she […]

Kidnappings and stock car racing and Miss Julia, oh my!

Miss Julia Takes Over by Ann B. Ross

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This is the second of this series that I’ve read, and I’m really enjoying it.  Miss Julia, recently widowed and recently wealthy, was originally not with much in the way of a family other than her housekeeper/best friend Lillian.  But now there’s Hazel Marie, her late husband’s young mistress, and her son, Little Lloyd, to add to the mix.  And she has a big house that’s pretty empty (always was), so why not? So when Hazel Marie goes on a date with the church fundraiser […]

Forget your Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. The original is far more weird then they could ever manage.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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  Of the three Bronte sisters, Emily wrote only one book, Wuthering Heights, and it was a corker.  Set on the Yorkshire moors, this was not the ultra-romantic tale you might have expected from the movie versions.  No, these people are feral, and there is but a sliver of difference between love and hate in their hearts. So a brief summary.  There are two properties on the Yorkshire moors – Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.  Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights as a foundling (implied […]

Just another New York boarding school. In the woods. Helps to be an artistic Wiccan.

Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman

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The northeast corner of the United States has always had a penchant for artists’ colonies, for at least the last couple hundred years.  One of the most notable was one established by Bronson Alcott (Louise May’s father), which lasted until Mrs. Alcott, tired of putting in yeoman’s hours of cleaning and cooking duty whilst her husband and his friends frolicked in the nude through the meadows, put her foot down at last, and packed them all back to Boston. Arcadia Falls also features a boarding […]

Magnificent Foolishness

The Reserve by Russell Banks

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      There was a movie director in the 1950s who specialized in glossy, noir-adjacent melodramas featuring the gorgeous rich in amazing locations (lake-adjacent!), Douglas Sirk.  Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, and Imitation of Life are a few of his works, and they generally starred actors such as Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman.  That was absolutely the vibe this book gave me from the start.  I hereby nominate Rock Hudson, Barbara Stanwyck (she does gorgeous rich crazy lady so well), and Henry Fonda […]

Hard Times for These Times

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

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So, Hard Times.  Or to give the book its full title, Hard Times for These Times.  And has there ever been a more perfect title for These Days? If you are unfamiliar with Charles Dickens, besides, perhaps, A Christmas Carol, there are a few things you ought to know about the man.  The man is, nearly always, On A Mission.  (OK, the Pickwick Papers is just plain fun.)  He’s from the Victorian era, newspapers have just been, more or less, invented, and his books are […]



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