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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Writing from the middle…

It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered by Lysa TerKeurst

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One of my hesitations with books in the genre of “Read this when your life is falling apart; I was in the same place, and this is how everything miraculously got better”, is that I find them to be discouraging while you’re actually in the middle of a life crisis of your own. I don’t want to hear about the lessons you learned when life turned around, because what if my story doesn’t end that way. If there’s no end to the pain that I’m […]

The summer read that melted my heart.

The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

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This was a book club selection that I probably wouldn’t have picked up otherwise – but that’s the beauty of book clubs, isn’t it? You end up stumbling upon treasures that you normally would have overlooked. In one of the hottest summers the town of Breathed has ever seen, Fielding Bliss’ father writes a satirical letter to the devil, inviting him to come visit, which is published in the town paper. Shortly thereafter, Sal wanders into town – a 13 year old black boy, claiming […]

And THAT’S how you pull off a second novel.

On The Come Up by Angie Thomas

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After the disappointment that was Sally Thorne’s 99 Percent Mine, I was really nervous about Angie Thomas’ sophomore offering. Would anything even be able to come close to the wonder that was The Hate U Give? Fortunately, yes. On the Come Up focuses on Bri, the teenage protagonist who is pursuing her dream of becoming a rap star. She is trying to make a name for herself without trading in on the name of her father who was just making a name for himself in […]

What dreams are made of…

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin

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I’ve only discovered Le Guin in the past year or so, and her novels are so thought provoking and layered. I’ve become a huge fan, and can’t get enough of her books.  The Lathe of Heaven centres on George Orr; he discovers that the things he dreams come true – at least in some sense of the word. For example, he dreams that a relative has died, and then wakes into an altered version of reality in which she had been killed months earlier. When […]

Second time a charm?

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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I, like many many other Cannonballers lived for Thorne’s debut novel, The Hating Game. I’ve re-read it several times, and it will be a permanent favourite. So when Thorne released her follow-up novel, it was a no-brainer for purchase. I had really really high hopes that this would measure up to The Hating Game’s standards, but it just wasn’t the same for me. Darcy Barrett has always held every man in her life to the benchmark set by her childhood friend, Tom Valeska. He’s the […]

A lesson in why Christians annoy people.

The Masterpiece by Francine Rivers

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I have so many mixed feelings about this book. When I was much younger and stupider, all of my reading was Christian fiction. As a genre, it’s… not great. But Francine Rivers was always a favourite because her writing is way above average in that world. I hadn’t picked up anything in that genre in decades, but when Rivers released this new book, and I had a few people recommend it, I thought I’d dip my toes back into it. How bad could it be? […]



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