Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

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OKAY. This book was a journey, a real struggle to the finish line. It was listed (I think this counts?) as one of the selections of my local library book club for this year, so, like a dutiful former English major, I read it. I had a sneaky suspicion from jump that this wasn’t my kind of book. I like historical fiction and was intrigued by the juxtaposition of this story over the sinking of the Lusitania, but this book boasts three different authors who […]

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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

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Dead Wake is a non-fiction account of what happened to the Lusitania, the ocean liner sunk by a German u-boat that led to the the United States joining WWI.  That was the extent of my knowledge about the topic prior to this book.  I remember learning about the sinking of the Lusitania in high school but like most US history classes, we were racing through the 20th century at the end of the school year so it was a footnote, along with the Zimmerman Telegram […]

Tragedy at war on the high seas

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I have a vague memory of one, lonely sentence in my high school history text book declaring the sinking of the Lusitania as one of the reasons the United States eventually joined WWI. The interesting stuff is always in the details, but like most high school history courses, there weren’t any more details. Then I noticed Dead Wake (2015) by Erik Larson. I’d read The Devil in the White City, and even though Larson’s narrative style was sometimes distracting, it was a fascinating story. I figured it […]



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