Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A Great Story Ruined by Some Incel Behavior

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Zélie is a divîner, someone who’s magic hasn’t yet revealed itself. She believes she’ll never become a maji, someone who’s magic has developed, like her mother due to the king’s purging of all the maji in Orïsha and the disappearance. Little does she know that a chance encounter with princess Amari will change that. Once Amari and Zélie make contact, the story sets off on a quest to restore magic and […]

Heroes can be Brainy not Brawny

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 4 of 5 stars Like many people I read “The Hobbit” after seeing and reading “The Lord of the Rings” series. Personally, I don’t think it matters all that much which order you read them in. The tonal shift between the two books makes for an abrupt image anyways. “The Hobbit” introduces readers to Bilbo, the One Ring (although we don’t know it’s that yet), Gollum, Gandalf, Elrond, and the world of Middle […]

Read This for the Backstory of the Show

Watchmen by Alan Moore

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Watchmen by Alan Moore My rating: 3 of 5 stars I probably shouldn’t have read this right after finishing HBO’s Watchmen, which is really more of a sequel than an adaptation. The graphic novel is a post-modern look at superheroes and who’s actually keeping us safe. There’s also some alternate history involved as well. It’s all flavored with the cynicism that was rampant during the cold-war with nuclear apocalypse always looming on the horizon. I’ve always been drawn to the darker superheroes who are more […]

And We Thought 2020 was Bad

1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler

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1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler My rating: 4 of 5 stars The main idea behind this book is that the events of this one year were the roots for major events further down the road. Reading that in the introduction I thought there’s no way that much happened in 1919. I was wrong. In this epic year you have: The Great Molasses Flood (Boston), The Red Scare, Race Riots (D.C., Charleston, Chicago, and Elaine), Labor Strikes (Seattle and Boston), the […]

Get Out but with a New Orleans Setting

The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

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The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m conflicted about this book. On the one hand it was an enjoyable read. Thought-provoking with some suspense. On the other hand, I don’t feel like the ending delivered on the suspense and I have more questions than I do answers. Weaving two stories, that of Josephine in 1855 and 1925 and Ava in 2017, readers are taken on the journey of a family in New Orleans and his things have changed and […]

The Show Improves the Faults of the Book

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is my second time reading this book and, just like the first time I read it, I’m conflicted about it. For the first half of the book I find the protagonist, Lyra Belacqua, obnoxious and unrelatable. I’m not a fan of the precocious child protagonist archetype. Maybe if I had read this as a kid and wasn’t looking at her through adult eyes it might be different. Once Lyra begins her quest […]



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