antisemitism – Cannonball Read 17

some content warnings mar an otherwise champagne-and-froth delight of a book

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

July 21, 2025 by wicherwill 1 Comment

BINGO: Rec’d, I suppose, as this was one of my birthday gifts this year–funny to go full circle from receiving books in elementary school because I had to invite my entire class and no one knew anything about me as I wasn’t friends with them, to receiving books for my [cough cough] from friends who know I read and are anxious to find things I haven’t! h/t to Ryan 🙂 hot take this book has some unfortunate racist bits, as is unsurprisingly common in literature […]

“Did I ever imagine how things were going to turn out? No, thank God. Why thank God? Had it been that bad? No, of course not. Only quite, quite different. Just as well one didn’t know in advance.”

Change Lobsters and Dance by Lilli Palmer

February 21, 2025 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I had no recollection of why I purchased this book until about halfway through when David (Edward VIII) and Wallis showed up. Then I realized this must have been cited in some biography I read about him, Wallis, or Jimmy Donahue (as Jimmy is also in this book, and I remember the disastrous dinner party described here, where he jumps off the yacht twice and humilates them in front of Greta Garbo). But putting that whole grim group aside, this was a lovely surprise to […]

“I know you cannot be swept away from sanity by a popular movement which has so much that is bad about it, no matter how strong it may be.”

Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor

January 28, 2023 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

A very slim but powerful read that I really enjoyed. This was a Christmas gift/recommendation from my mom, and I’m glad she did gift it to me, as it’s right up my alley of related interests. This book especially struck me because it was published before the war began in 1938, but it is so prescient and clear minded about the moral and physical dangers of the rising fascism in Germany. It has that timeless air to it of a book that saw the future […]

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