When we learned about the Civil Rights movement in grade school, we watched videos of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches and some of the protests. I remember being horrified at the racist, white people screaming with all the righteous indignation their stupidity could muster. I figured they must be so ashamed of themselves now–having been caught on the wrong side of history with their violent ignorance. As much as those videos affected me, I still did not understand the reality of living in the South […]
Camping in the snow is not so sexy
I generally really enjoy Karen Robards’ novels, so I was excited to get her latest, Darkness (2016), when it finally came in at the library. I can usually count on her for some romantic adventure and excitement. Her books can be a little too violent sometimes, but I’ll overlook it if she sucks me into the story. Unfortunately, this one just didn’t do it for me. I did listen to it on CD instead of reading it, but I’m pretty sure reading it wouldn’t have made […]
My first graphic [novel] travelogue
I first heard of Displacement (2015) by Lucy Knisley from another Cannonball review. Knisley is a twenty-something writer who volunteers to chaperone her aging grandparents when they unexpectedly sign up for a cruise. I’d never read a graphic novel [or travelogue] before, but this one called to me for a number of reasons. First, the review was very positive and persuasive. Second, I have never been on a cruise, and I’m pretty sure that’s been a good decision. Right now, most of my knowledge of cruises […]
Gillian Flynn-like murder mystery with some horrible characters
When a random woman at Costco goes out of her way to recommend a book to you, then you listen–especially when that book is already on your to-read list. I had to wait forever for The Girl on the Train (2015) by Paula Hawkins to become available at my library. I guess I wasn’t the only one who had heard good things. The Girl on the Train is a murder mystery. In many ways it reminded me of Gone Girl and other books by Gillian Flynn–primarily because both […]
A Fairy Tale in the Alaska Wilderness
The Snow Child (2012) by Eowyn Ivey is a book I had never heard of and wouldn’t have chosen to read if it weren’t for my book club. In fact, after reading the description, I was dreading it: “Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they […]
Not Your Typical Romance
I have continued with my out-of-order reading of Lisa Kleypas’s contemporary romance novels surrounding the lives and loves of the wealthy, Texas, Travis family. Sugar Daddy (2010) is pretty unique and not at all what I was expecting–Kleypas deliberately failed to follow the tried and true romance protocol. Liberty Jones grew up in the small, dusty town of Welcome, Texas. Her father died on an oil rig when she was younger, and her mother hasn’t has the best taste in men since. When Liberty is a […]
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