Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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I think I am rereading The Canterbury Tales, but I am unsure that I have read them in full previously. I know for sure that between AP Literature and World Literature I in college I have read some amount of this collection, it’s probably also true that I haven’t read all of it. As a piece of literature, in singularity, it’s possibly unparalleled in what it does here. The scope of the poetry, the stories, the prose, the history, and the catalog of language alone […]

Frankenstein

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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CBR14Bingo – Monster – It’s a about a monster. And while yes, Victor Frankenstein is a monster, the Monster is most definitely a monster.   The thing that always strikes me about Frankenstein, and I think this is probably my fifth or so time reading it is the narrative structure. It’s told entirely through the perspective and letters of Robert Walton, an adventurer at sea, after he sees the Monster on the ice, and then finds and befriend Victor, who is pursuing the monster. These […]

A Passage to India

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

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CBR14Bingo – Hot – I am calling this hot because of all the times the English characters complain about the heat. “Hot” being entirely relative of course, and the main thrust of the book about the English failure to recognize the interiority of the Indian characters. In addition, the heat plays an important role in the novel throughout leading to specific events that tell us about the different characters, but also acts as a kind of metaphor of how the British Raj specifically tried to […]

The English Patient

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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CBR14Bingo – Rec’d – This book is “recommended” in the sense that when I was in high school, a crush of mine told me I should read it, and it was presented in an obviously challenging way, but I didn’t get it. I also didn’t get that it was flirtatious, and honestly a little revealing about their intentions. The book has the real disservice of people deciding that the movie is long and boring. I actually like the movie a lot, but the weird thing […]

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Solitaire by Alice Oseman

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Including avoiding Solitaire altogether! Unless you want to take what seems like a lovable side-character from the Heartstopper series and completely ruin her for yourself like I did. That is the only thing I can say with certainty that this book accomplished, and I’m not exaggerating in the slightest. To Oseman’s credit, she was 17 when she wrote this, and it was her first published book. I know I wouldn’t want the novel I wrote at 17 distributed for everybody to read. Trust me, mine […]

Games Help Us Understand Life

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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Bingo square – Font – Hella cool font Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow reminded me a ton of one of my favorite TV shows, Halt and Catch Fire. It examines human relationships and heartbreak and how we use games to cope with and process our lives. I completely fell in love with both the main characters Sam and Sadie and didn’t get that sometimes itchy feeling I get when the perspective changes and I wish I was with a different character. Zevin digs really deeply […]



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