Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Was Tracy Flick the proto nasty woman?

Election by Tom Perrotta

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Cbr12bingo adaptation, Bingo #3 (vertical, Music to Violet) The movie version of this novel came out in 1999, and I have never seen it in full so I cannot tell you how faithful it is to the book. But I can say that this is a really fun read, and pretty quick. Author Tom Perrotta employs a variety of characters as narrators recalling the events of a few short weeks in the spring of 1992. One might not think that a high school election for […]

All I ever wanted to do was teach.

Election by Tom Perrotta

Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta

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Election – 4/5 The publication of this book is kind of curious. Tom Perrotta had had a book rejected or something like that and they asked him if they had anything else to offer, and he pulled this book out. Before it was even published it was already optioned and filming began. So the book came out almost at the same time as the movie. And this was one of those movies I randomly saw in the theater in high school and was blown away […]

A little too timely

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

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I picked up this book to be a small break from my all the Steinbeck I’ve been reading lately.  I like to alternate a little between fiction and non-fiction.  Within the non-fiction, I like to mix it up between professional reading and just interesting.  Usually, there is some overlap and I think that applies here.  Also, one of the authors, P.W. Singer is coming to speak at my school next week and I wanted to read it before he arrived.  I read an earlier book […]



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