Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Learn the Lingo, Break Its Power

Cultish: The Language of Fanatacism by Amanda Montell

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Over the past year I felt that two books in particular were relevant at such a fraught time for our country and the world. The first was Suzanne Collins’ latest installment in the Hunger Games series, Sunrise on the Reaping, which examined propaganda and its place in authoritarianism. The second is Cultish, by Amanda Montell, which is a nonfiction book that looks at cults and their nonstandard use of language to draw in followers and exclude outsiders. Informative, troubling, often very funny, Cultish looks at […]

A Wooly Mystery

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann

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George, the shepherd, was dead. The flock found him in the pasture with a spade shoved into his belly, so he clearly didn’t die of natural causes. But who killed him? At the instigation of Miss Maple, the (unofficial) smartest sheep in Glenkill, the flock decided they’d have to investigate George’s death themselves. This may sound like the set-up for a cozy mystery, but Three Bags Full is a witty philosophical tale that just so happens to be from the perspective of sheep. As they […]

Tales from Stephen King’s The Stand

The End of the World As We Know It by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene (Editors)

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The Stand was not the first Stephen King novel I’d ever read – that honor goes to Thinner, written under his pen name of Richard Bachman – but it was the one that got me hooked on King. This book has stayed with me in the two decades since I first read it, and my two favorite sections are when he shows the spread of the superflu and the government response around the U.S., and then the immediate aftermath of the superflu, where he goes into […]

A Gothic Classic for a Reason

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. The opening chapters of Rebecca by Daphne du Marier are a haunting introduction to a place we will come to know quite well by the end of the book. Our unnamed narrator takes us past the lodge house, up the long drive to the old house, all the while reflecting on how nature has begun to take over the grounds and land, and only the most intrepid poacher would dare to trespass. She then thinks on their […]

Moving Past Trauma Into Joy

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

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When they were just shy of eighteen years old, Eva Mercy and Shane Hall spent one intense and life-altering week together. Fifteen years later, Eva is a best-selling erotica writer living in Brooklyn with her pre-teen daughter. Shane is the reclusive darling of the literary circuit, whose award-winning books are beloved by all. They have not spoken once in all those years. But Shane unexpectedly shows up at a panel on Black literature where Eva is a panelist, and the two cannot deny that their […]

Alex Easton Comes to America!

What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher

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Alex Easton, our beloved Gallacian sworn soldier, is back for another adventure, accompanied as always by the stalwart manservant Angus. Alex has been summoned to America, of all places, by their friend Dr. Dennison, who was one of the witnesses to the horrors that unfolded at the house of Usher. Dennison’s cousin has gone missing while exploring an abandoned coal mine in the wilds of West Virginia, and Dennison thinks that something supernatural may be afoot. Alex, who is certainly not claustrophobic, agrees to travel […]



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