Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Black Birds in the Sky

Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

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If you’re looking for a complete rendering of the Tulsa Race Massacre, with a moment by moment detail of events, this is not exactly the book for you, or rather, you won’t exactly find that in this book. There are other books that give the details more fully. And like a lot violent and traumatic events, the actual events themselves need a lot of context to make them make sense not just visually and in detail, but in cause and effect. The other fear I […]

The Time of Contempt

The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

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This is book two in the main series of Witcher books. What’s still fascinating in this series to me is how much the Watcher, Geralt of Rivia, does not factor into the book. Because I’ve played Witcher 3 and in the game he’s not only the main character, but you’re literally playing as him, this has a little disconnect with the books. The game does intimate repeatedly that the Witcher is a kind of free-lance or free agent, and that larger events are always happening […]

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

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My estimation for this book continues to grow as I read and re-read throughout my life. I first read it in college, and the complexity of Faulkner’s portrayal of interior lives and families was about all I could handle in one of his novels. I could also handle the stark portrayals of race and gender in something like Light in August as well. But this book which attempts to complexly show interiority of white and Black characters, how those characters interact not only within a […]

Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

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This is probably the first book I read about the US/Vietnam War, and it probably shaped a lot of my thinking about it and my viewing and reading future books and movies. I cannot confirm whatsoever that I didn’t watch movies about Vietnam before reading this, so it’s hard to know what I brought into my first reading of it in 8th grade. So if I watched Full Metal Jacket when I was ten (why you ask? Because it was the 1990s and I am […]

Karl Popper’s Penguins

The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato by Karl Popper

The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx by Karl Popper

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Part 1 – In part one, we find Karl Popper dealing with a couple of premises, upon which his critique is founded. For one, he’s looking at the 20th century, where totalitarianism has clearly take hold. He’s about a decade too early to really fully examine post-Stalinist Soviet Union and a few too early for Maoism, and it’s important to frame this book as not being politically aligned with the right or the left in this regard. One way to interpret this rise is as […]

Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

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I read this when it first came out and had a few abortive attempts to read the rest of the series. I am rereading it now for at least one more go at completing the series. I’ve never been so simultaneously impressed by a book, exhausted by it, kind of annoyed by it, and questioning whether I actually think it’s good or not. That’s pretty impressive. It’s an impeccably written novel. Handling a few literary conceits that are confusing to narrate, confusing to conceive of […]



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