Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Genocide as Told Through Poems

An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo

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An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo My rating: 5 of 5 stars I typically don’t read poetry by choice. The only times I have are when it’s for my classes or as part of a book club. When I do read poetry I prefer narrative poetry or a collection of poems that has a common theme. I choose to read “An American Sunrise” because I’ve read some other works of Joy Harjo and I was highlighting Native American authors during November. This collection centers […]

Deeper Themes of a Classic Author

A Jane Austen Devotional by Steffany Woolsey

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A Jane Austen Devotional by Steffany Woolsey My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m always curious about devotionals that take pieces of literature and extrapolate life lessons. Sometimes I think the editors can either read too much into the passages they select or the life lesson is so broad it could fit any literary passage. Steffany Woolsey does a good job finding passages from Jane Austen’s works that deal directly with the life lesson, Ms. Woolsey is attempting to convey. In connecting the passage from […]

Pumpkins, Fall, Growing up, and Young Love or Why Fall is a Great Metaphor for Senior Year

Pumpkin Heads by Ranbow Rowell

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Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Josiah and Deja work at a pumpkin patch. Not just any pumpkin patch. This place has rides, attractions, multiple fall themed food booths and a corn maze. When you get to see this pumpkin patch think of the harvest festival from Parks and Rec. Josiah and Deja are both high school seniors and it’s their last night of the last season at the patch. They’ve worked at the pumpkin patch for multiple seasons and […]

Native American Science Fiction

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The Marrow Thieves” is the story of what happens in a future world in which climate change reaches its zenith and normal weather patterns no longer hold up. People are displaced, diseases are rampant, and people stop dreaming. But not Indigenous people. They continue dreaming. History repeats itself in that White governments begin rounding up Indigenous individuals and experiment on them to find the cure to dreamless sleep. We start in media res […]

Finding God in Different Traditions and Religions

Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner

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Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Girl Meets God” is Lauren Winner’s memoir of her journey from the Jewish faith of her childhood to finding her way to Christianity in college. Growing up, Ms. Winner was raised by her Baptist mother but was allowed to practice her father’s Jewish faith. Her parents were divorced but she felt more connected her father’s religion. Ms. Winner explains that growing up and coming to […]

Psychology with a Whole Lot of Philosophy Thrown In

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom

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When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom My rating: 3 of 5 stars “When Nietzsche Wept” is the imagined meeting of Dr. Breuer and Nietzsche. There’s no actual evidence that the two met, but Irvin Yalom uses his understanding of the two men to create a scenario for what would’ve happened had Nietzsche sought out Dr. Breuer’s talking treatments. Dr. Josef Breuer was one of the founding fathers of psychology. He is a real life contemporary and mentor to Sigmund Freud. […]



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