Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

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This book was recommended to me by a friend, who doesn’t usually share my taste in books, but I decided to read it anyway and was kind of disappointed. The Marrow Thieves is dystopian, so I expected it to be right up my alley, but when I read it I was surprised. It’s set at an undefined time in the future where everyone except the Native people have lost the ability to dream. Their ability to dream is stored in their bone marrow so the […]

Better the first time

Internment by Samira Ahmed

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After reading Hollow Fires (which I’m still working on the review for), I went to the library to find a new book to read. I looked for dystopian books and this one caught my eye. I loved Hollow Fires, and Internment is by the same author, so I checked it out, started reading, and couldn’t put it down. Internment by Samira Ahmed is a dystopian book where the US has created internment camps for Muslims. The main character, Layla, and her family get sent to […]

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Hunted by a Shadow by Michelle Heard

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Michelle Heard’s Hunted by a Shadow is her third installment in her Mafia Kings series. It’s a stand alone dark Mafia romance, and boy, is it dark. I’m writing this review as I watch the Super Bowl in overtime. I’ve kinda gotten bored with the game – I mean, I was only watching for the commercials and celebrity sightings, particularly everyone’s favorite football couple. No, not Taylor and Travis. I’m talking about the Kuches*. They are freaking adorable, and I kinda need that in my […]

Between the Freeze and the Thaw

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

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When midwife Martha Ballard is called to inspect the body of a man found frozen in the Kennebec River, the last person she expects it to be is the accused rapist of one of her patients – and when she determines that he has been murdered, the situation only becomes more complex. I first heard about Martha Ballard a few months ago, when I picked up the Pulitzer Prize-winning book based on her life (A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her […]

Perhaps the most American of novels.

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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In 1905, Thomas Dixon’s The Clansmen: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan was published to massive sales and widespread scorn. The book was supportive of segregation, and glorified not only the Confederacy, but the Klan it was purporting to tell the story of. One year later, mobs of white Atlantans massacred African Americans following lurid and unfounded accusations made in local newspapers about the alleged rape of four white women at the hands of black men. At least 25 black people were murdered […]

“being around so many people who are accustomed to the presence of human marvels has made him forgetful.”

Marvelous by Molly Greeley

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This book is absolutely perfect for people who loved fairy tales as kids and now hate them for their lack of realism. Plot: Pedro grew up in the Canary Islands, abandoned by his birth parents and reviled by most of the population as a result of having hypertrichosis, a condition by where hair grows constantly across his entire body and face. Colonialism being what it was, Pedro was then abducted as a child and brought to the Kind of France as a fun gift – […]



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