Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A list of books are fun titles

Click V02 Camp by Kayla Miller

One Wish: Fatima Al-Fihri and the World’s Oldest University by M.O. Yuksel

Invasion of the Unicorns by David Biedrzycki

The Last Straw by Zoe Matthiessen

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This list of books are fun titles that I am unable to write a full review of. Therefore, I am giving highlights of one graphic novel and three picture books. After you say, “a fun story of friends and summer camp” you have pretty much said it all about Click V02 Camp by Kayla Miller. I should add it is a graphic novel with the cover giving you pretty much all you need to know about the illustrations. They are colorful and funny. There is […]

Thanksgiving Short Books

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nahisi Coates

Buck by MK Asante

Yellow-Back Radio Brokedown by Ishmael Reed

Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara

The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes

The Double Helix by James Watson

Pafko at the Wall by Don Delillo

Williwaw by Gore Vidal

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon

The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon

The Hand by Georges Simenon

The Engagement by Georges Simenon

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

The Promise by Damon Galgut

Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

Gerald's Party by Robert Coover

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The Beautiful Struggle – 5/5  Stars I never taught in Baltimore City, but I did teach in Baltimore County, where Ta-Nehisi Coates spends part of high school. (I was two schools over, but the idea was pretty much the same there). So the result is some familiarity here. If I ever met Ta-Nehisi Coates, I think what I would want to tell him is when I was brand new to Baltimore, so when I scheduled my meeting with the MVA (DMV) I went to the […]

Sword of Destiny – Andzrej Sapkowski

Sword of Destiny by Andzrej Sapkowski

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This is the third Witcher book I’ve read, and the second story collection. I would have to go back and remind myself what happens in the first novel, and as of right now, I am enjoying the short stories a lot. This collection has six stories to it, and the bulk of them have that off-beat sense of humor, world-building, and relatively small scope I like from the stories. The novels I will have to wait and see, but one of the things I like […]

Deliverance – James Dickey (1970)

Deliverance by James Dickey

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This is the third time I’ve read this novel — once in college, once when I was about 30, and now at 40. To say that it’s comes scross different each time is a bit of an understatement. In college, I imagine I spent a lot of time focused on the rape scene and the “implications” of it — the “unmanning” of the character. I was probably a lot more on board with Louis’s performative masculinity (but read straight) and more or less in agreement […]

“I have learned that sometimes the simplest things are the hardest things to say. That sometimes there is no word for what you feel, no word in any language.”

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

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I read Jasmine Warga’s debut My Heart and Other Black Holes in 2016, and its one of the books that has stayed with me most as it contained some of the truest descriptions of being a teenager that I have ever read. When I was hunting for a book to fulfill the Muslim Middle Grade novel task for the Reading Women challenge and came across Warga’s name I decided that Other Words for Home would be the book I read, without looking any further into […]



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