Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Ahh yes, the Hamil-tome

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

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I love Hamilton. My kids love Hamilton but refuse to watch the duels as they are too scary (I’m pretty happy with that actually). I’m not quite obsessed with it but I did listen to the soundtrack for like three weeks straight after watching it. I put this book on hold and had to wait a few months for it as I suppose everyone else did the same thing after the movie came out. This book is basically a giant magazine article, read by Mariska […]

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

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A quick search suggests that this book has been reviewed for Cannonball at least eight times already, so it’s not like anything I say about the book is likely to be new or revolutionary (see what I did there). I don’t think there was ever any doubt that I was going to love this book, considering just how much I love the musical. I don’t remember exactly when I first heard about Hamilton, but it’s likely to be early in 2016 (I got this as […]

Who tells your story?

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When I bought tickets to Hamilton last October, I immediately put myself on Hamilton hiatus. I wanted to go into the musical fresh and be able to experience it without the official recording going through my head or being distracted by things I’d read or watched. Now that I’ve seen the musical, it’s time to gobble up all the Hamilton things. First on my list was Hamilton: The Revolution. Hamilton: The Revolution is basically the history of the musical from the very beginning to opening […]



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