Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Inspired to climb back into CBR after a few year hiatus. Promise to quit any book that doesn't hold my attention after the first 50 pages. Life is too short. she/her

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The Fifth Season: The Earth Really is Trying to Shake Us Off

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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Season after season the Earth is hit with cataclysmic events: volcanic eruptions, massive earthquakes, a mining accident. These events cause shifts in the continent(s) and climate events that alter the earth’s ecology again and again. These events and their aftermath are called Seasons. The Fifth Season is a generic term for an extended winter of more than six months caused by a large scale environmental alteration. There are no vehicles, no internet, no fossil fuels. This is the backdrop for the stories of three women: […]

Too Much and Too Little: The Muse

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  So here’s another book that has two story lines separated by about 30 years in time. The narrator of the story is Odelle who has come from Trinidad to London to pursue her desire to be a writer. It is 1967. As the book opens she is working in a shoe store when she gets a job at the Skelton Institute of Art. Her new boss is Marjorie Quick (a Bondian sort of name, no?) is enigmatic, wealthy a nd upper class.  She takes […]

Difficult Women Persist

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So after starting and not finishing two books, I decided it was time to tackle a book of short stories. If I have chosen novels or a biography poorly, I like short stories. It’s like eating salt and pepper Kettlechips, before you know it you’re at the bottom of the bag, licking your fingers and wanting more. I read Difficult Women thinking about the title. Why the word difficult? All of the stories are told by women. The stories range from a story of two […]

What We Become is Old

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What We Become reminds us that we become nostalgic as we get older. Picture an ocean liner out of Europe in the 1920’s. This isn’t a boat holding thousands of people playing in pools all day and gorging themselves at buffets in the evening. It is elegant. People wear furs as they wave from the first-class deck. Dinner is formal, dancing is optional, smoking is compulsory. Max is a ballroom dancer who entertains unaccompanied women, or those whose partners don’t dance. As the book opens […]

Apparently We Can’t All Get Along

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As previously noted by Bonnie, Hillbilly Elegy has been promoted as the book you must read to understand Trump voters. If that’s what you’re looking for, I think you will be disappointed. This book is mostly personal memoir with a liberal amount of social and political observation included. Given the fact that he’s worked in the Senate and written for David Frum, I wouldn’t be surprised if J.D. Vance is planning a political career in the future and  this is his first autobiography telling his […]

Strange Sisters

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When Rosemary is five, she is sent to her grandparents. She doesn’t know what’s happened to her sister Fern. When she is returns home the family has moved from their farmhouse and orchard to a house in town and Fern is gone. Rosemary’s older brother is angry, her mother is grieving and her father starts to drink. What has happened to the missing child, Fern? Well, turns out Fern is a chimpanzee. I came to We are All Completely beside Ourselves biased. A few years […]



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