Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Awesome Title Is Awesome

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

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True story – in 1974, French tightrope walker Phillippe Petit slung a rope from the top of one of the twin Trade Towers in New York City to the other, which was still wrapping up construction.  (I was always uncertain quite how he managed that, but apparently it involved a bow and arrow, incredibly enough.)  He then not only walked across, but ran across, danced across, and just to prove his point, lay down on it mid-span for as one does – all the while […]

Noir with an African Touch

People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi

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Ekwensi was a Nigerian author, studying in Britain at the time he wrote these tales, originally for radio plays for his fellow Nigerians in Britain.  Nigeria was still a British colony at the time, 1954, but it was in the process of establishing independence, doing so in 1960.  The City referred to is Lagos (although never called that), where Britain had first established itself, in order to stop the slave trade that had been established there.  It soon was an important port for all colonial […]

Fun and Games in Tudor England

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

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What is this, Tatooine?  Is not Tudor England the most outrageous wretched hive of scum and villainy one can ever imagine?  Friends, it is that, hands down. This tale, one of the many involving King Henry the Eighth, who is most famous for being the fat guy who was Queen Elizabeth 1st’s father, focuses on his second queen, the first beheaded one.  (Ain’t gonna lie, ain’t gonna cry.)  But mostly it is the story of the Boleyn siblings, Anne, Mary and George.  These three never […]

The Good Stuff.

Peter and Wendy/ Margaret Ogilvy by J. M. Berrie

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No pic, sorry!  Old book. This volume, which I picked up in an estate sale somewhere, is an old one, published in 1913.  It features an account of the author’s mother, Margaret Ogilvy (which was written in 1896), as well as the original version of Peter Pan.  As far as the former goes, we meet his mum as a widowed Scot with a devious turn of mind and not a care in the world as to what anyone thinks of her.  That was fun. But […]

It’s a Hard Knock Life

Living by Henry Green

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Written in 1929 by a young innovative author, Living is the account of life in a British factory town of that time.  We follow both the workers of the factory and the owner’s lives.  The factory is an iron foundry, just starting to shift from a hand-crafted tradition to a more automated version.  Most of the workers featured are the older generation, having been with the firm most of their lives, and not a few are facing retirement, voluntary or not, without much of a […]

Alas, No Pagan Rituals Involved. But Still a Fun Read.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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OK, gotta admit, this was not the genre I was expecting when I started reading.  Upstate New York Gothic is my third favorite type of Gothic (after OG British Gothic and Mexican Gothic), but it took me a minute to realize that this was not that.  Lack of girl school on the lake, to start with.  So what we are actually looking at is a missing child, actually two of them, story. The Van Laars are a wealthy banking family who own a large bit […]



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