Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Inspired to climb back into CBR after a few year hiatus. Promise to quit any book that doesn't hold my attention after the first 50 pages. Life is too short. she/her

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A Celebration of Books and Readers

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

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I am a sucker for  Louise Erdrich, and this book did not disappoint. This is a book lover’s story: the romance of words, sentences, the independent bookstore, discussions about books, book recommendations, all wrapped up in a darn good story. Tookie, the narrator begins: “While in prison, I received a dictionary. . . I had received an impossible sentence of sixty years from the lips of a judge who believed in the afterlife. So the word with its yawning c, belligerent little e‘s, with its […]

Women’s Work is Never Done

Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick

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Dahlia Lithwick’s Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America is both a history of women and the law in America and the stories of women who took on the Trump administration after 2016. Lithwick writes for Slate and is the host of the Amicus podcast. She is a lawyer, but she has worked in journalism for over twenty years. Her writing is accessible, the reader, or listener doesn’t have to be legally trained to appreciate this book. You really just need […]

Enough really is Enough

Nat Enough by Maria Scrivan

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So this review is out of my comfort zone. While on a weekend getaway I wandered into a bookstore and got several book recommendations, including  Maria Scrivan’s Nat Enough.  I asked about graphic novels and the owner steered  me into the children’s section. I haven’t read any books directed at kids recently besides Harry Potter and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. It was a fun read, and seems unlikely to cause any parents to get into an uproar. Natalie is starting middle school. She is […]

A Small Southern Town with a Large Helping of Sex, Murder and Violence. Fun!

My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby

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After a summer of serious reads it was fun to sit down and enjoy a good noir mystery, this one taking place in a small town in Virginia. It checks all the noir boxes: a woman with a checkered present, shady accomplices, dive bars, crime bosses and church ladies. Nathan returned to Virginia after a couple of tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he also used to work for the sheriff’s office. He now works for his cousin who is a mortician, Nathan transports the bodies. […]

CBR Bingo 15: On the Road

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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This book could fit into several of Bingo categories, and sadly has been banned in some places (usual suspects). Written in 1993 and set in 2025, The Parable of the Sower is a frighteningly plausible story about a world impacted by climate change, political breakdown and economic and social inequity. The protagonist, Lauren Olamina, is a black teenager who has grown up outside of Los Angeles. Cars are a thing of the past, electricity is scarce and becoming scarcer. There is little rain to grow […]

It’s Always Those People

The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen

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“The Netanyahus,” is a fictionalized version of a real-life visit to an American campus by the father of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The subtitle: “An account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family” is a succinct but entirely inadequate description.   The book is also about being part of the Jewish diaspora in America in the 50s and being Jewish anywhere throughout history. It’s also about Israel. The book is so readable primarily because it […]



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