Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Florida Woman! (and friends)

Florida by Lauren Groff

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

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I didn’t read the About This Book for either of these until way too late which is how I ended up reading two short story collections back to back at the very beginning of a whirlwind overseas trip. I do apologize because while one was vastly superior to the other, they have both fully blurred together in my mind. I also can’t really remember much about either. Perhaps the reason that Florida stands out above The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is that there was enough […]

So much world to be explored

The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin

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Even in her weakest books, N. J. Jemisin creates the kind of detailed, sprawling, fully realized worlds that would make C. S. Lewis weep. At the end of The Shadowed Sun is a six page glossary of terms invented for this world she has brought to life, and the book has the worldbuilding to support it. Very few authors can create whole-cloth the way Jemisin can. I wish I could live in this woman’s imagination. The Shadowed Sun in book two in the Dreamblood series, following The Killing […]

Please come back oh god I miss you so much

Becoming by Michelle Obama

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It is a well-documented fact that I am a library fiend, borrowing anything and everything I can get my digital hands on, but this one? This one I own. And will own forever and will display in a place of pride and fight the urge to build an alter to and oh god please come back. This book is pretty much everything you need it to be (except the part at the end where she flatly says she will never run for office which I […]

Yeah I’m gonna do it

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

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Maybe I like these books because for the most part I read in snippets – on the train, at lunch, on the train again, while my fiance plays FIFA. A lot of my day to day reading gets done in ten to fifteen minute bursts and basically any book I’ve picked up by Sarah J. Maas really suits that lifestyle. The writing is fairly simple and their plots are convoluted without being particularly complex. The mothership once described the modern Nikita as being the perfect gym […]

Personal tragedy speaking to societal tragedy

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

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This book has been well read, well reviewed, and on every list for a reason – it is very very good. It is a beautifully written, horrifyingly tragic story that speaks as much about America as it does about the marriage at the novel’s core. It is stunning and it is sad. The short version is, a young couple, only married a year, are visiting his parents in small town Louisiana when the husband is arrested, tried, and convicted of a crime he absolutely did […]

This makes me want to write essays

Everything's Trash But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

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A friend of mine has been recommending the podcast 2 Dope Queens for forEVER and now I really wish I had taken her up on it sooner, because this book made me happy to read. It also makes me really want to read her first book, You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have To Explain and it honestly makes me want to start writing my own life/world essays. Because that’s what this book is, life as Phoebe Robinson sees and experiences it. Just […]



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