Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Canadian girl; collector of Pride & Prejudice; trying (unsuccessfully) to read the books I already own before buying more.

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For the cynics and realists…

Inspired by Rachel Held Evans

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Rachel Held Evans passed away earlier this year, and the world is a lonelier place without her writing. This is her most recently published book, and reading it after her death just added a layer of sadness that I didn’t expect. Growing up in a conservative Christian environment, she was always the “good church girl”… but things started falling apart in her faith when she began asking questions. How can we say that God is loving when the Bible says that He ordered the massacre […]

At the intersection of spirituality and creativity…

Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson

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For the better part of the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has been one of my favourite songwriters. Yes, his music is Christian by genre, but not the cheeseball, put on a happy face, not based in reality garbage that you’d hear on Christian radio stations when you’re driving thru the middle of nowhere and that’s the only station that comes in. He’s a brilliant lyricist that isn’t afraid to write songs about real life and all the crap that goes with it. In some […]

A refreshing conversation about sexuality and spirituality…

Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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As someone who grew up in the Christian tradition in the 90s, this was a book I am very thankful for. It was not uncommon in the circles of my youth to have any conversations about sex include all of the following: don’t even THINK about sex until you are married…before marriage you need to suppress your sexuality, be ultra-modest, and be careful to not tempt the boys… when you DO get married tho, flip that switch and unleash your inner nympho… oh, and also, […]

Filling a glaring gap in my literary resume…

Dune by Frank Herbert

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I really enjoy science fiction, and while I don’t stick to that genre exclusively, I have read enough that I felt considerable shame for never having read Dune.  There are classics that everyone just has to experience. So on a recent vacation, I brought it along to rectify this situation. Dune is set on the planet Arrakis, a desert land that hosts only one valuable resource, called ‘the spice’. Its drug-like qualities are invaluable across the galaxy, and is worth killing for. Our protagonist is […]

As close as I got to a Halloween read…

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

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Back in October (yes, the review backlog is a thing), I wanted a Halloween-ish read, but was trying to also stick to the TBR pile and not go buy something new. This proved difficult because horror/scary type books are not really my jam (Confession: I am 40 years old and have never read a single thing by Stephen King). But then I found this tucked away on my P&P shelf, stuck there as a joke, but never read. Perfect. I didn’t know what to expect […]

You will never find a Romanov conspiracy that I will not read.

The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

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It wasn’t long after reading Gill Paul’s The Secret Wife, that I learned of her second Romanov conspiracy novel. As previously stated, I AM HERE FOR IT. I don’t care what the premise is, or how far-fetched, I will eat it right up. In this novel, Paul focuses the story on Maria (which, much like in The Secret Wife, it’s so fascinating to read a theory about someone other than Anastasia). Half of this novel focuses on Maria herself, starting just before the family massacre […]



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