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Are We All Defined by Our Inner 15-year-old?
Meg Wolitzer’s novel spans many decades—telling the story of a group of friends who meet at an “arty” summer camp in upstate New York in the early seventies but whose lives remain entangled with each other’s into the new millennium. Most of the novel is told from the perspective of Jules Jacobson, … [Read more]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Or a story’s descent into chaos.
I'll admit, I've been teaching high school English for four years and it wasn't until this January that I had read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. … [Read more]
The Valley of Mild Appreciation
My review of The Valley of Amazement is now up on my blog. I seem to be off to a slow start; in my defence I've been playing a lot of Skyrim - er, I mean, reading a footnoted non-fiction book which has slowed my reading down a lot but which I will review when I am finished. (Mainly Skyrim though. If … [Read more]
Brought to you in living color
You’ve probably already seen a review of Hyperbole and a Half. Cannonball Read 6 already has four, and Cannonball Read 5 had a few as well. But, from what I can tell, I’m the first to review it who only has a passing knowledge of Allie Brosh’s blog of the same name. I mean, I was aware of it. I … [Read more]
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford’s Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet was my book club’s selection for January and I was pretty excited to read it. With a World War II setting, Asian cultures, and forbidden love, I assumed it would be right up my alley. Well, you know what they say about assumptions… The novel … [Read more]