Cannonball Read 18

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I read quite a bit and review very little. 5th year participating.

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The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

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“There is something more powerful than La Llorona – a power that takes away parents not children. It is called the United States.” This book is the other one we read in our English unit along with Messy Roots, and I generally enjoyed it more (also, thinking about it now it would probably have been smart to do them as a joint review but it’s too late now so I’ll just link my Messy Roots review here). The Distance Between Us is a memoir by […]

Not great for class, but good to read

Messy Roots by Laura Gao

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“Every time I struggled to fit into the world around me, I thought if I flew far away enough, like Chang’e, the perfect home would magically appear. But when your roots are tangled up across so many different places, that perfect world may not exist.” My school generally tries to have us read books in English class that are more accessible to people and that will make people more likely to actually read and enjoy, hence them having us read Messy Roots as part of […]

Honestly just interesting

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

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“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.” This book came strongly recommended, and it seemed interesting enough so I decided to pick it up and give it a go. The Shallows is a nonfiction book about the effects of the Internet, specifically why people have shortened attention spans. Not only does it explore and discuss the […]

Was there a page max or something?

The Removed by Brandon Hobson

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This is another one that I read for my book club, and I might or might not have picked it up otherwise. The synopsis makes it seem like it does stray too far from the things I usually read, but the content was a little out there for me. The Removed follows a dysfunctional family comprised of Maria, the mother who struggles to manage the family, Earnest, the father, who has Alzheimer’s, Edgar, the son, a drug addict who fled home years ago, and Sonja, […]

The epitome of a mom mystery

Still Life by Louise Penny

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When deciding on a book for our January book club, we wanted to do an Agatha Christie adjacent cozy murder mystery and someone suggested Still Life by Louise Penny. The immediate reaction of many of us was to say “my mom loves this series!” or “my mom has read all of Louise Penny’s books!” Still Life is a murder mystery set in the small Canadian village of Three Pines. It follows Chief Inspector Gamache, a homicide detective who doesn’t see much homicide and his team […]

Gripping mystery, easy read

Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

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CBR 16 Bingo – Scandal: A year ago, there was a scandal at the Scrabble competition that resulted in death… The book follows Najwa Bakri, a Scrabble champion who was best friends with the former “Scrabble Queen,” Trina Low, before her mysterious death a year ago at the Scrabble tournament. Najwa is simply trying to move on with her life and get closure, but the other competitors are seeking to take the spot of Scrabble royalty and be the next reigning champion. However, when Trina’s […]



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