Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Shorts

The Didomenico Fragment by Amor Towles

The Gentlemen from Peru by Andre Aciman

On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Berry

Good Enemy by Yilong Liu

The Snowman by R.L. Stine

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter

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The Didomenico Fragment This story by Amor Towles takes place all in New York City, with Brooklyn being posed almost as a foreign country. The narrator is an aging art critic and scholar who was recently in possession of a small fragment of a Renaissance masterpiece. He’s approached by an art dealer who asks him about selling the fragment, but he laments that he sold it years ago. This leads to an idea. Early in the story he talks about how being retired, even comfortably, […]

Dr. Seuss et al

Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka

Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog by Mo Willems

The Duckling Gets a Cookie? by Mo Willems

This is not my Hat by Jon Klassen

The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka

Boys Will Be Boys by James Patterson

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

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I recently asked my high school seniors what were some of their favorite book when they were younger. These are 18 year olds now, so mostly born in 2005, and while there were some older classics in the mix like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, most of the answers were books I had never heard of before. So I went to the library and checked some of them out to see what they had enjoyed. While there, I checked out a few other […]

Histories

Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd

A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I by C.V. Wedgwood

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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors “When the first sarsen stone was raised in the circle of Stonehenge, the land we call England was already very ancient.” This history of England covers the first 12,000 years of so of English history, ending specifically the reign of Henry Tudor, Henry VII, who took over the throne with possibly sketchy evidence after defeating Richard III. This more or less signified the end of the War of the Roses, but there were […]

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

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“Concerning the Thoughts of man, I will consider them first Singly, and afterwards in Trayne, or dependance upon one another. Singly, they are every one a Representation or Apparence, of some quality, or other Accident of a body without us; which is commonly called an Object. Which Object worketh on the Eyes, Eares, and other parts of mans body; and by diversity of working, produceth diversity of Apparences. The Originall of them all, is that which we call Sense; (For there is no conception in […]

J.D. Salinger et al

On Moral Fiction by John Gardner

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On Moral Fiction “A book as wide-ranging as this one needs a governing metaphor to give it at least an illusion that all is well.” Like most polemics, there’s some righteousness that John Gardner is working with here on an issue I think that was relevant for the literary moment and for our current literary moment. One of the things that’s kind of funny here is that John Gardner is decidedly less remembered than many of the people he’s criticizing in this piece. So for […]

End of Year School Project Round Up

The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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As an end of year project happening during AP exams week(s), I assigned my American lit students to do some groupwork on short stories of the 19th century. Part of the assignment was to link the stories to one of the dominant American themes we’ve been using this quarter. The themes are not meant to be exhaustive, don’t apply to every piece of American literature, and you can still read something that none of the themes easily applies to. We also used the themes are […]



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