Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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It’s like Game of Thrones but without all the violence, and scheming, and a lot more Jesus

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset

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I kid in the headline, but this really does involve a large introspective journey into the natures of Sin and Faith.   Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928, in large part because of this trilogy of novels. These novels trace the personal history of Kristin Lavransdatter, a medieval Norwegian noblewoman from her birth through….well, I will have to see when I read the third novel. This first section primarily deals with her childhood, her adolescence, and her various courtships, love affairs, […]

(No Spoilers about who the Beet Queen is)

The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich

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2016 could have easily been my year of Louise Erdrich. I went from being suspect of her to reading as much of her stuff as I could stomach to sitting up the morning of the Nobel announcement having convinced myself she was about to win. I hope and think some day she will. She really is that good. In this previous year, I have read seven of her novels and look to read the remaining seven this year. For whatever reason, for this time in […]



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