Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Married, mom of two, history PhD, feminist. I've been participating in Cannonball Read since CBR4. I love to read, and writing reviews keeps me from reading without thinking. I feel like I owe it to the authors who entertain me to savor their creations. It's like slowing down and enjoying a delicious meal instead of bolting your food. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: ElCicco's Quick Questions interview.)

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Phileas Fogg is the most interesting man in the world

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

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Cbr11bingo Travel This classic 1873 novel by Jules Verne was an utter delight! I am somewhat ashamed to admit that this is the first Jules Verne novel I’ve read and that I really knew nothing at all about it when I picked it up. Turns out, that worked to my advantage, as I was on the edge of my seat, eagerly turning each page to see whether Phileas Fogg would win his wager to travel around the world in 80 days. This book is part […]

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers by Benjamin LeGrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

Snowpiercer 3: Terminus by Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette

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Cbr11bingo Illustrated The Snowpiercer trilogy is an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I was on board after the first volume. It hinted at some very interesting history for its main character Proloff, as well as complex, sinister military and political machinations that precipitated the endless, deadly winter that has engulfed the world and forced survivors onto the Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving train. The reader was left with a number of cliffhangers at the end of that volume. And […]

And so it begins

Snowpiercer Vol. I: The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette

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Cbr11bingo And So It Begins Snowpiercer is a French graphic novel in several volumes. Volume I: The Escape was originally published in 1982. Two later volumes appeared in 1999. The English translations were published in 2014, after the film version with Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton came out. Snowpiercer is a work of dystopian fiction, taking place in a world where cataclysmic climate change has turned the Earth into an uninhabitable frozen wasteland. Snowpiercer is a locomotive 1,001 cars long housing the humans who managed […]

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Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine

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CBR11bingo The Collection This collection of essays by Emilie Pine was just released in the US but came out to much acclaim in Ireland last year. Pine, who is Associate Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin, has written six essays that relate to deeply personal issues for her, but which will resonate with women everywhere. In her author’s note, she writes that these essays began with a family crisis. Once the crisis passed,  …I discovered that I was still lost, still trying to […]

True Story that is reminiscent of Handmaid’s Tale

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler

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Cbr11bingo True Story This book was recommended to me by a friend who was adopted and it is an amazing and powerful book. It’s the kind of book that breaks your heart and makes you angry. When we talk of “choice” and women, we generally think of the choice to have an abortion, but this book reveals a different kind of choice that was denied to countless young women and girls in the decades between WWII and Roe v. Wade — the choice to keep […]

This is a weird ass book

Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

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I hadn’t heard of this novel before but saw it at the bookstore and thought it looked interesting. It’s a fantasy story of a young woman, a cleric, who has a unique and powerful connection to the gods. It is also the story of two nations at war over politics and religion. Wicked Saints has strong Slavic overtones, evident in names and geography, which I find appealing because of my own personal interests. I was not aware until I started writing the review that it […]



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