heavy – Cannonball Read 17

Bingeing the Walls

Heavy by Cate C. Wells

Hitting the Wall by Cate C. Wells

Against a Wall by Cate C. Wells

Wall by Cate C. Wells

October 18, 2022 by Emmalita 4 Comments

Kindle Unlimited is great for stress-binging books. After reading (but not reviewing because I still don’t know what to say) Cate C. Wells’ Run Posy Run, I ended up reading another book by Wells, Heavy. After that I gave in and binged all the books about the family Wall. Two of the books, Heavy and Wall, are in the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club series. The other two are the spinoff Stonecut County duology, Hitting the Wall and Against a Wall. I’m reviewing them chronologically rather […]

I wanted to tell you a lie.

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

January 24, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I read Kiese Laymon’s novel Long Division and his nonfiction essays How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others a few years back and I could tell by the early previews and even the cover of this book that it was likely to be very good. And it is. There’s a handful of comparisons on the cover of this book from early reviewers to Richard Wright’s Black Boy, which is also subtitled “American Hunger” and while I do agree there’s some real connections between the two, one of the […]

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