Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in other stuff when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Nart's Quick Questions interview.)

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“Whatever you do won’t be enough. Try anyway.”

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

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It is readily apparent from the length of this book that President Obama has enjoyed the works of Dostoevsky, and every page of this book is worth the read. This is not a good memoir. This is a good book full stop. I can’t tell you the number of times I laughed, cried, and was otherwise deeply moved by this, the first volume of Obama’s record of his time in office. I went for the audio book, as I often do with autobiographies read by […]

Don’t start this book on a weekday!

The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan

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For the love of everything you hold dear, do not start this book on a weekday. This book is a warm bath. This book is a weighted, sherpa-lined blanket on a cold winter morning. This book is a long hug from a friend you haven’t seen since COVID hit. And it will lull you in with its light, silly, premise set in an idyllic countryside village and before you know it it’s 2:16am and you’re crying about chosen family and the meaning of belonging. Don’t […]

Much better than a light summer read

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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I put a hold on Beach Read after narfa reviewed this book back in the summer and I can already tell it’s going to be one of my favourite books of 2021. This book follows a romance writer who has become cynical about love and a literary writer stuck in the research stage. To get past their writers block, they swap genres for the summer. Shenanigans ensue. This book tackles what I think is the most taboo subject in romance – deliberate, ongoing infidelity, and […]

Winning the lottery does not solve all problems, but it sure helps

Best of Luck (Chance of a Lifetime #3) by Kate Clayborn

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This is the final novel in the chance of a lifetime series and probably the weakest, but it’s still one of the sweetest stories I’ve read in a long while. Though it is the third in the series and includes characters from the previous books, you don’t HAVE to read them in order. If the characters in this novel appeal to you more than the other books, you can start with this one if you want. Plot: a shy, chronically ill woman is trying to, […]

Everyone should read this book

21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act by Bob Joseph

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This book is absolutely essential for anyone looking for a layperson’s understanding of one of the only race-based pieces of legislation in the world. If you’re Canadian, it’s helps you understand your own country, and hopefully, get inspired to advocate for us to do better. And if you’re not Canadian, it can help you look more critically at how race is dealt with in your country. While your country my not have explicitly racist legislation, there are a lot of policies and ideas in the […]

Everyone should read this book

Lead From the Outside by Stacy Abrams

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I deliberately chose this book to hit full cannonball with, because I wanted something optimistic to end the year on and as I think forward to what I want to achieve in 2021. This book is undersold as a guide for how to affect change when you don’t have access to the room where decisions are made. It is that, but it is so much more. The target audience for this book are people from equity seeking groups, but I think everyone should read it. […]



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