Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random hobbies!

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Maybe I don’t want to die like that

Engineering Eden by Jordan Fisher Smith

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I found Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature (2016) by Jordan Fisher Smith when I was looking for a book to fulfill the “in the wild” square for my bingo card. It’s not a book I had heard of before, but it seemed exactly the kind of book I would have an interest in and enjoy reading. Harry Walker was twenty-five years old and living on his family farm in Choccolocco, Alabama when he took off […]

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse.”

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I first noticed Daisy Jones & the Six (2019) by Taylor Jenkins Reid when I saw an ad for the new television series based on the book. It looked pretty entertaining, but I always like reading the book first. I put a hold in at my library and started waiting. I found this book to be a quick, entertaining read. We learn about the beginnings and endings of a popular band in the early 1970’s. I enjoyed that the entire story was told through interviews with the band, […]

A little disappointing

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

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I have read all of Lucy Parker’s books, and she’s been a favorite romance author of mine for years now. I always look forward to when another book of hers is published. So, when I saw Codename Charming (2023) was available and not at my library, I bought it immediately. Then I saved it for my backpacking trip, so I’d have something fun and distracting to read. Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed in this one. Part of the problem was that most of the characters in […]

“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.”

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

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I’ve had The Dutch House (2019) by Ann Patchett sitting on my hold list at the library for literal ages. It’s been available numerous times, but I kept postponing it because there was always something more pressing or exciting to read. Finally, I saw it again when I was looking for audiobooks to read and a familiar name caught my eye. Tom Hanks was the narrator of the audiobook! I usually like to read my literature myself, but I’m also a fan of Tom Hanks, so I […]

A little plane at night in a storm

Into the Abyss by Carol Shaben

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I originally picked up Into the Abyss (2014) by Carol Shaben because I was looking for a book to fill the “In the Wild” bingo square. The blurb said Into the Abyss was the true story of a plane that crashed in the Canadian wilderness. That sounded like in the wild to me. However, once I read the book, it didn’t feel right. The survivors only spend one night in the wilderness and their biggest challenges are surviving their injuries and not freezing to death. So, I decided to […]

A true story of dissociative identity disorder and being transgender

The Third Person by Emma Grove

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I picked up The Third Person (2022) by Emma Grove specifically for Cannonball Bingo. I wanted another graphic novel to read, so I looked at NPR’s Best Books of 2022 and decided that Grove’s memoir looked interesting. Fortunately, it was available at my library, and I didn’t have to wait long. When The Third Person arrived, I was surprised that it was a huge tome of over 900 pages. The majority of the story is a conversation between Emma and her therapist, Toby. Emma wants and needs the therapist’s okay to […]



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