Deb Caletti – Cannonball Read 17

A Book that Deserves Much More Buzz than it Received

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

December 31, 2021 by The Chancellor 1 Comment

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow. This was a powerful book from cover to cover. It’s a slow burn that draws you in and once you get to the reveal you’re so invested you hate to put the book down. We start with a young woman who has experienced a recent trauma and is still putting her life back together from it. What starts out as a run away from her tragedy turns […]

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

May 21, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

After an unnerving encounter in a local fast-food chain, Annabelle runs. She runs and decides she can’t stop anytime soon. She isn’t prepared for a cross-country run, but she can’t bear to turn back to her hometown and school where she is haunted by flashbacks of The Taker, and what he took. Her mother is appalled, with graduation coming and concern that Annabelle isn’t thinking rationally. But her little brother, her friends, and her grandfather seem to understand that running to Washington DC is something […]

“That’s when I decide that shoveling elephant shit would be better than this.”

February 1, 2014 by NTE Leave a Comment

So the key to good fiction is that it feels real, yes? That whatever you’re reading – from some space alien wandering the galaxies afraid of the unending space, to a little boy with a purple crayon that can create his own moon if he chooses to – seems as real to as you are, sitting in your chair, or stretching out across your bed turning pages, or running for the bus, listening to the words in your headphones. That’s all I’m ever looking for, […]

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