Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Surprisingly, I liked it!

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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This book had been sitting on my TBR pile for years and I finally got to it this year. Not only do I get the satisfaction of finally finishing it, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that that I quite enjoyed it. Our first person narrator Susie Salmon is a 14 year old girl living with her family in small town Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. When the story starts, Susie is telling her story from beyond the grave (her ‘heaven’), sharing the story […]

Who would have thought that something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Lucky by Alice Sebold

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I already knew Alice Sebold from The Lovely Bones, but I had not heard of Lucky (1999) by the same author until I saw it on my 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40 List. Written just before The Lovely Bones, it is the true story of Sebold’s violent rape, on the last day of her first year of college. This book was good. It was well written, tense, often difficult to read, and eye-opening. Sebold is very honest about the rape and how it affected her. […]

the almost moon.

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Last year I didn’t finish four books which is an embarrassing number for me… I say that because I *struggled* to finish The Almost Moon- starting and finishing three books in the process… Another thing I try to avoid. I read Lucky when I was a sophomore in college and loved its gritty honesty. I read The Lovely Bones (along with the rest of the world) right before the movie adaptation came out. I was excited to see The Almost Moon at a library yearly […]



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