I’m a fan of Jon Krakauer’s other work, but when I heard he was coming out with a comprehensive look at the Missoula rape scandals in the last few years, I was hesitant. I had followed along with much of the reporting on those cases and am pretty tuned-in to the larger issues of rape culture in this country. Did I really want to read what a white dude (who may or may not be sympathetic to rape survivors) had to say about it? But […]
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“My pain was never more valuable than his potential.”
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
I saw Know My Name (2019) by Chanel Miller available at the library on audiobook, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to listen to it. I had heard the story of the Stanford swimmer who had sexually assaulted an unconscious woman. I knew that even with two witnesses, he received a light jail sentence. I remembered the collective outrage from the sentencing, and I thought I already knew the story. Add to the fact that rape isn’t exactly a fun topic, and I was leaning against reading […]
Tossing in a bunch at once.
The Ice Shirt by William Vollmann
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Rip Off by Jim Thompson
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Why are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer
A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons
The Ice Shirt – 3/5 Stars I might be Viking-ed out. Between this novel, playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (which is a ton of game), and rewatching the Marvel movies (and with Loki starting up right now) this book was poorly chosen for me to read right now. But it’s a book I’ve been planning to read for 20 years and have failed to a few times, so maybe this is just my reaction to the book. The book is a kind of mixed media novel […]
Mennonite #MeToo
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Women Talking is a fictionalized story that is founded on a real story- the ‘ghost rapes’ that occurred in the Manitoba Mennonite colony in rural Bolivia between 2004 and 2009. For years, women would awake groggy, with signs that they had been sexually assaulted. Eventually one of the rapists is caught in the act; he confesses his role in the rapes and implicates 8 other men from the colony. Toews, who is from a Mennonite community in Canada, took this horrific story and turned it […]
CBR11Bingo: The Collection & Reader’s Choice — BLACKOUT!
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
Woohoo! I’ve got a blackout board and I’m almost completely caught up on reviews (10 left after this one). A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett I don’t normally read or really enjoy short stories, so this is definitely a good example of Bingo making us broaden our horizons! I found this short story collection by searching “collection” on Overdrive. I had thought I might reread some Stephen King or Neil Gaimen short stories, but when I saw this Terry Prachett […]
Only 6 out of every 1,000 sexual assault perpetrators will end up in prison.
Rape culture is real. But that doesn’t make me want to face it any more than I already have to in my life. I have had this book on my to read list since it was published in 2015.However I didn’t read it then, instead I picked up Into Thin Air to get a taste of Krakauer’s style before jumping into the deep end so to speak. I have comments across many Cannonball Read reviews of this book saying that I’m going to tackle it […]
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