Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Let Your Life Be a Counter Friction to Stop the Machine

This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion

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Welcome to the Anthropocene era, the fossil fuel-powered nightmare of our own making. Our hot and crowded planet has hit Defcon 3. Right now, a record number of fires is burning down the Brazilian rainforest, threatening three million endemic plant and animal species. Mass bleaching in the heat-stressed Great Barrier Reef has reduced baby coral by 89% since 2016. Okjökull is the first (but not the last) glacier to disappear from Iceland. Last month Paris hit 109º, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city, […]

It Doesn’t Look Good, Folks

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

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BINGO: Science Best for: Those looking for specific clear descriptions of what the earth may look like at different levels of warming. In a nutshell: Science writer Wallace-Wells looks at what has happened so far, what is likely to happen, and what the greater implicates will be as related to climate change. Worth quoting: “Almost regardless of your politics or your consumption choices, the wealthier you are, the larger your carbon footprints.” “More than 140 million people in just three regions of the world will […]

The Raft of Medusa

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

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Read as part of CBR 11: Science David Wallace-Wells wants us to avoid the trap of fatalism when it comes to climate change. Fatalism is a form of denialism. I get that. I appreciate it. But man, it’s tough to come away from reading this book feeling anything but pessimistic about the future at best and nihilistic at worse. This book is divided into two sections: the potential scientific effects in the near future due to global warming, and how we process that ethically, politically, […]

“I can’t help but sense that desperation is right around the bend.”

Dry by Shusterman, Neal

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cbr11bingo – Listicle! (Dry is featured on this list of 2018 must-read teen fiction) Drought isn’t a new phenomenon to Alyssa or anyone else in California, but the ante is upped when one day the taps run dry.  Quickly termed the “tap-out” by local news, it doesn’t take long for stores to run out of bottled water and for people to start freaking out.  In this environmental disaster book, Neal Shusterman and his son Jarrod explore the possibilities of how chaos could unfold in California […]

Missed it byyyyy thatmuch

Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley

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I know I’ve mentioned a few (hundred) times that I’m a sucker for the Man Booker Prize, and I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of those lists for many years. I’ve finally started paying more attention to others, too, particularly the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Awards and the Women’s Prize, and I also found the cheeky Not-the-Booker Prize awarded by The Guardian from a blend of votes by the public and a judging panel. I thought the 2018 winner, Rebecca Ley’s Sweet Fruit, Sour Land, […]

“Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

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What in the world can two evangelical Christians from West Texas teach Americans about global warming? A lot, it turns out. In A Climate for Change, the authors tactfully and forcefully make the case to skeptical conservative Christians that (1) climate change is real and (2) Christians should be working in this issue for myriad faith-based reasons.  Katherine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley are spouses teaching at Texas Tech here in my beloved Lone Star State. You may have heard of Farley because he has written several […]



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