Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Clouds All Form a Geometric Shape

Boom Town by Sam Anderson

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Bingo square: Sportsball I’ve never been to Oklahoma City. If you’d asked me before I read this book what I knew about it, I think I would have had trouble thinking of a single thing beyond tornadoes and the Oklahoma City bombing. I have zero interest in professional basketball, so I’m not even sure I knew they had a team. Thank goodness for the Sportsball square in Bingo, otherwise I never would have read this. Boom Town is the entire story of Oklahoma City, from […]

Welcome to the modern world

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I was in the sixth grade when the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. I was a little too young to be fully aware of Waco, Ruby Ridge, or the first World Trade Center attack, and, as an army brat, while the first Gulf War affected my family personally, I only really saw it as something that might take my father from me. So the 1995 terrorist attack was the first real event that captured my interest – and not least […]



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