Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Fun and Games in Tudor England

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

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What is this, Tatooine?  Is not Tudor England the most outrageous wretched hive of scum and villainy one can ever imagine?  Friends, it is that, hands down. This tale, one of the many involving King Henry the Eighth, who is most famous for being the fat guy who was Queen Elizabeth 1st’s father, focuses on his second queen, the first beheaded one.  (Ain’t gonna lie, ain’t gonna cry.)  But mostly it is the story of the Boleyn siblings, Anne, Mary and George.  These three never […]

The Good Stuff.

Peter and Wendy/ Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Berrie

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No pic, sorry!  Old book. This volume, which I picked up in an estate sale somewhere, is an old one, published in 1913.  It features an account of the author’s mother, Margaret Ogilvy (which was written in 1896), as well as the original version of Peter Pan.  As far as the former goes, we meet his mum as a widowed Scot with a devious turn of mind and not a care in the world as to what anyone thinks of her.  That was fun. But […]

It’s a Hard Knock Life

Living by Henry Green

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Written in 1929 by a young innovative author, Living is the account of life in a British factory town of that time.  We follow both the workers of the factory and the owner’s lives.  The factory is an iron foundry, just starting to shift from a hand-crafted tradition to a more automated version.  Most of the workers featured are the older generation, having been with the firm most of their lives, and not a few are facing retirement, voluntary or not, without much of a […]

Alas, No Pagan Rituals Involved. But Still a Fun Read.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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OK, gotta admit, this was not the genre I was expecting when I started reading.  Upstate New York Gothic is my third favorite type of Gothic (after OG British Gothic and Mexican Gothic), but it took me a minute to realize that this was not that.  Lack of girl school on the lake, to start with.  So what we are actually looking at is a missing child, actually two of them, story. The Van Laars are a wealthy banking family who own a large bit […]

And My Girl Nailed the Landing!

The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty

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So we are coming around the corner to the final stretch of this Daevabad trilogy.  Are we going to get a solid ending?  Or a weak sauce wander off into philosophical musings (looking at you His Dark Materials).  One never knows.  But my girl does not fail me.  Final battle for Daevabad is just part of this finale.  We are also off to Egypt, where Ali’s mother, the Queen, is currently living (and also the site of Nahri’s earliest memories) and then there are ginormous […]

Come On, Guys, Bear Just Being a Bear.

The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron

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Seem to have been running into a lot of stories lately about the wilds of Maine, and its feral folk.  I can appreciate that, years ago we took a vacation through that neck of the woods.  Maine coast was lovely, and we decided to head back through the interior of Maine just to see what there was to see.  Walls of pine was what there was.  As a Western girl, I prefer forests that are a little less crowded, I think.  But it made me […]



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