Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Beloved by Toni Morrison

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I was just reading Natalie Haynes’s Pandora’s Jar, and she discusses Beloved briefly as a Madea story. This is true in the sense that the plot of Beloved involves Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman now ten or more years after the Civil War, living in a house in Ohio that is haunted by some sort of presence. Sethe too is a quite haunted woman. In a moment of abject fear and panic, some years earlier Sethe kills her infant daughter when she believes that she’s […]

Books

The Body by Stephen King

Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazny

Prince of Amber by Roger Zelazny

Silence by Shūsaku Endō

Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss

Would your rather be a Bullfrog by Dr. Seuss

Maybe you should fly a jet! Maybe you should be a vet! by Dr. Seuss

I Wish that I had Duck Feet by Dr. Seuss

A Great Day for Up by Dr. Seuss

What pet should I Get? by Dr. Seuss

And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss

Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book by Dr. Seuss

If I ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss

The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss

Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss

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The Body “The most important things are the hardest to say.” I first read this probably back in 1990 or so when I was still a little younger than the characters. I also had seen the movie a few times, and listened to the soundtrack about a million times. The novella, like the movie, is narrated by the adult Gordon LaChance, and like some of Stephen King’s other books, the past and nostalgia play a huge role. One thing that emerges soon in the book […]

Cambronne répondit: Merde!

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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Book 1 – Fantine “In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806. Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment […]

Books

Zoom at Sea by Tim Wynne-Jones

Zoom Away by Tim Wynne-Jones

Zoom Upstream by Tim Wynne-Jones

How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

Paper Son by Julie Leung

Sign of Chaos by Roger Zelazny

The Princess who Saved Herself by Gregory Pak

81 Famous Poems: An Audio Companion to The Norton Anthology of Poetry by Various

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Zoom Trilogy Zoom at Sea “Zoom love water. Not to drink — he liked cream to drink –Zoom liked water to play with.” Zoom is a small cat who in the opening pages of this first book straps two wooden spoons to his paws so he can paddle in a sink full of water. This opens up an idea in him to make a small boat for the tub. Lastly he goes into the attic finding several sea-going artifacts and learns that his uncle is […]

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

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“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.” The title of this book is from a malaprop from one of the characters. In discussing books by Jack Kerouac and writers like him, the character calls them “Sputnik writers” meaning Beatnik, and this becomes an inside joke between the two. But of course the misunderstanding also becomes a symbol, and is appropriate to Kerouac as a wanderer. The novel goes on to remind us that Sputnik […]

Gordon Wood

The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S Wood

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“To appreciate the extent of change that took place in the Revolution, we have to re-create something of the old colonial society that was subsequently transformed.” In a way this book is a sequel to his earlier book The Creation of the American Republic, where among other things he begins to discuss and understand the role that republicanism played in the early republic. This book is a continuation of that discussion and in a lot of ways carries on the ideas of the first book, […]



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