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If only I had more time...I always have an ever-expanding reading list that I can never seem to get under control. Cannonball contributes to this list as I am constantly discovering new books to read from other people's reviews. Someday I hope to win the lottery, so I can spend more time reading.

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Love Poems (for Married People) by John Kenney

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I was very excited when NPR’s Best Books of 2019 List finally came out at the end of the year. I never have a problem finding books I want to read, but I’m always ready to add more to my list. And that’s how I found Love Poems (for Married People) (2018)* by John Kenney. At first glance, this might not seem like a book that would interest me. Most importantly, perhaps, I am not married. I am dating someone, but my relationships are few and far between. This “married […]

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

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“Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, ‘for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic.’” I was quite lucky to read Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019) as my first book of 2020. My book club chose it as our next book, so I was already […]

Jane Austen and murder

The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker

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I discovered Lucy Parker’s romance novels through Cannonball reviews. They have all been set in the West End theater district in London. I loved the relationships, the stories, and the inside look at the actors’ work and lives, so Parker has become a must-read for me. I was pretty slow in realizing that Parker had a new book, The Austen Playbook (2019). It was published way back in April, which is why it took me until December to read it. Unfortunately, I think these last two books […]

She misses believing in God.

Florida by Lauren Groff

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Florida (2018) by Lauren Groff was strongly recommended to me by my boyfriend. He was surprised I hadn’t heard of it, and I probably should have. It was a National Book Award Finalist and on NPR’s Best Books of 2018 List. I read the first part of the first story on his iPad and was interested enough to read the rest of the book. Short stories are not my go-to. Most of the time I have a hard time connecting to the characters before the next story begins […]

The rent eats first.

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

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I cannot believe it took me this long to read Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2017) by Matthew Desmond. Years ago, my book club read this book, but for some reason I didn’t get around to it before the meeting. I was always planning on reading it anyway. It won the Pulitzer Prize, it’s on NPR’s Best Books of 2016 List, and even Obama recommended it. But there were always other books to read, and I was afraid it might be tedious. And then I […]



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