Cannonball Read 18

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

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I don’t know how I missed this book. It came out in 2012 and it took me 7 years to pay attention to it. It was made in to a poorly-received film that I had no interest in watching. I still don’t know if I will watch the film, but I am so glad I found this book. Billy Lynn is 19 years old and enlisted in the Army as a punishment for destruction of property. Billy and the other members of the ‘Bravo Squad’ […]

War and football (and also much more)

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I was in the middle of reading Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain when I accidentally stepped on my Kindle. Somehow my foot knocked my Kindle off airplane mode and the WiFi turned on, immediately returning all my overdue books back to the library. It wasn’t until a couple of months later that I finally got Billy Lynn back on my Kindle and finished reading it. This isn’t very important except that I’m pretty sure I would have gotten more out of this book […]



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