Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Twisty From Start To Finish

Verity by Colleen Hoover

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Six years into her career, Colleen Hoover published the novel Verity. The book opens with an absolute horror scene, and careens from one shock to the next for the duration of it’s 350-odd pages. If you want to be completely startled over and over again, this is the book for you. Verity is ostensibly the story of Lowen Ashleigh, an author who has been recruited to finish a series of novels by the titular Verity Crawford. Verity has become incapacitated due to a terrible car accident, […]

Global and Noble

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Looking for something frothy and fun for Spring Break? Casey McQuiston’s debut novel Red, White and Royal Blue is the perfect light read for those of us who love celebrity gossip and US Weekly magazine. Alex Diaz-Claremont is a college senior at Georgetown University. His best friends are his sister, June, and his ex-girlfriend, Nora. Oh, and he happens to be the son of the President of the United States, Ellen Claremont. After an embarrassing incident at the royal wedding of Prince Phillip involving Phillip’s younger […]

Taut, Gripping, and Totally Twisted

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

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The friends who recommended Rory Power’s Wilder Girls to me sure know how to get my attention. “Gripping queer relationships and teen girls being badasses!” said one. “You’ll love this, it reminds me so much of that show Yellowjackets that you won’t stop talking about,” raved another. Well, that sealed the deal. Wilder Girls takes place entirely on the fictional Raxter Island off the coast of Maine, primarily at the Raxter School for Girls. The all-girls boarding school is now under complete quarantine because of a mysterious […]

An Absolute Page-Turner of a Mystery

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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After several rave reviews and a feverish few weeks waiting for my copy from the library, it turns out everyone was right. Thursday Murder Club is fantastic! Set in the picturesque fictional village of Coopers Chase near Kent in the Southeast of England. Coopers Chase is the home of an upscale retirement community which is, of course, packed with eccentric characters. The cast includes Joyce (a retired nurse), Ibrahim (a psychiatrist in a former life), Ron (a union organizer) and Elizabeth (a woman whose past is […]

Dark Fairies, Light Fairies, and Dublin Adventures

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

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The first novel in the long-running Fever series from Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever introduces us to the world of MacKayla “Mac” Lane. A naive young woman from small-town Georgia, Mac leaves her safe home to travel to Dublin after her older sister is murdered there while studying abroad at Trinity College. Arriving in Dublin, Mac is shocked to learn that her sister has been behaving strangely – not attending classes, avoiding friends, losing weight, and generally acting out of character. On the way home from her sister’s […]

Twenty Years Old But Still Relevant Today

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman

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Although this book is several years old, Stagestruck has again received cultural relevance. Schulman, the author of early 90s queer novel People in Trouble, goes to great lengths in this nonfiction book to show the extreme similarities and outright plagiarism of her book by the famed stage show RENT.   Schulman takes pains to point out the far-reaching and insidious points stolen from her lived experiences as a lesbian in New York City in the 1980s dealings with the AIDS crisis and it’s extensive effects on the gay male community. […]



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