Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Wild Game is a Wild Ride

Wild Game : My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur

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CBR11Bingo- True Story Yikes. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me is a lot to take in. Adrienne Brodeur puts it all out there for us, which I’m sure was great for therapy but I can’t imagine that this book is well-loved by her family. The book begins with a visit from family friends when Brodeur was fourteen years old. Her step-father Charles’ friend Ben and his wife Lily have come to visit at their summer home. Brodeur’s mother, Malabar, wakes her up from […]

Deserves the hype

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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  CBR11 Bingo Listicle- I’ve seen this on several best seller lists in addition to Pres. Obama’s summer reading list.   This was a really brutal book. The author has written a fictional account of a reform school for boys, but based it on a real school that closed only a few years ago. It was discovered after the schools’ closure that there were a number of bodies buried on the school grounds that had not been accounted for. The men in charge of the […]

Classic and a remix, and I’m not sure about either

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Seduction by Eva Chase

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CBR11Bingo Classic and Remix squares. I had never read anything by Arthur Conan Doyle before this. I have to say, I was a little disappointed. The first half of the book was about what I expected- introductions of characters, segue in to the mystery to be solved, Holmes solves a case that no one else can. I think most of the English-speaking world has some familiarity with Sherlock Holmes, whether through book, movie, television show or references in other pop culture. I wasn’t expecting the […]

Two authors is one too many

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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CBR11 Bingo Rainbow Flag square. This is a collaborative book written by two authors who have had individual success in the Young Adult market. Arthur and Ben meet cute at a post office when Arthur follows a cute guy who is trying to mail a package to his ex-boyfriend. They don’t exchange information before they are separated by a flash mob and then spend a third of the story thinking about how to find the other, and if it is even worth the attempt. Arthur […]

I didn’t see what the Perks were

The Perks Of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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Bingo Square: Banned Books (https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/perks.asp)- this book was banned in 2017 in the school district I attended as a kid, and that my mom taught in until recently. It was deemed offensive due to its ‘explicit sexual references’ which were called “disgusting”. It was specifically banned in a middle school after it was assigned by a substitute teacher for a 7-th grade advanced language arts class. I have to say that while I think banning books is a ridiculous thing, I don’t think this book […]

Ms. Marvel at war

Ms. Marvel Vol. 6: Civil War II by G Willow Wilson

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Bingo Square : Illustrated   I haven’t been in to comic books since for about 30 years, back when I would beg my mom to buy me Archie at the checkout of the grocery store and finish it before we got home. Ms. Marvel really has changed that. Kamala Khan is an American teenager living in Jersey City, New Jersey and dealing with regular teenage stuff- school, her parents’ expectations, and the occasional boy trouble. The big difference is that Kamala’s boy trouble is usually […]



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