Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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It took all the strength I had not to fall apart!

I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

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I’m really sorry for naming this review after the most cliche song I could have quoted — OR AM I? Sixteen-year-old Jess has been through it this year.  She survived a terrible car crash that killed her mother on impact. She’s left scarred and her leg is irrevocably damaged, despite the diligence she has devoted to her physical therapy. And now, the court has ordered her custody to the father she has barely known, transported there by an old family friend named Gil. Gil does not bring her to the government address on hand, however. She is flown to the […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

“My personal motto has always been if you’ve already dug yourself a hole too deep to climb out of, you may as well keep digging.”

Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry

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Michael Ausman is seething. His father has uprooted their family yet again for a job promotion — this time Michael was barely two months into his junior year. Now he is faced with making yet another new group of friends in another new school, and to make matters worse, that school is a Catholic one. Michael is an atheist, and he has no interest in setting down any roots lest they be ripped back out again. But on the first day of school, he is utterly taken when his classmate Lucy offers a passionate feminist argument during a history lesson […]

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3/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

“Now we have to somehow un-fuck everybody.”

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Quick Review: This is a very good YA debut by Angie Thomas and it is important reading to be done in this cultural climate in the United States. Thomas clearly, and evocatively, brings the reader into the layered life of a black teen in today’s United States with its systemic racism. It reminded me of of my own history, and my lived experience, and grew it out. But it isn’t a primer in the way that Between the World and Me is, it is a story, a beautiful narrative of coming to terms with things that are impossible to come […]

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3/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

I want more Jessica Jones in my life…

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

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Krysten Ritter’s debut novel Bonfire is really just okay. Don’t get me wrong, Ritter can write, but throughout my reading of Bonfire, I kept having the feeling that I’d read this story before. The main character, Abby, is an environmental activist slash lawyer who has returned to the small nothing of a town where she grew up. She is there to prove that the one corporation in town, Optimal Plastics, has been corrupting the opinions and perspectives of residents by providing them with jobs, donating to the school, and upgrading the community – all while poisoning the reservoir that serves as the […]

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2/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Finally, a Romance Author Who Understands the Importance of Quality Snacks

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

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I accrued some library fines on this book and I’m sending my apology out to the universe for the person behind me in the holds list who is delayed in getting this copy in their hands. That’s what happens when you get six books on interlibrary loan over three days (after none arriving for three weeks), your social calendar gets very full, and you can’t renew this new book (published January 30, 2018 y’all). But I’m also quite glad that I embraced the fines and kept the book. I try to be more mindful in my reading and one area that I […]

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2/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

THUG gave me all the feels

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas deserves all the hype and awards. The story centers around teenager Starr Carter who lives in the African-American community of Garden Heights while attending an expensive private school on the posh side of town. She has two sides of her life, two faces she shows each environment. Her white boyfriend Chris has never met her Dad. Her friend Kenya, who she shares a half-brother with has never met any of her high school friends. The two worlds collide after she witnesses a police office kill her unarmed childhood friend, Khalil. The book focuses on […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Merry October or I revisit a favorite

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Merry October everyone. (Shhh… I know its November, but it’s still October in my heart.) I love Rainbow Rowell, and I love the characters she creates. I also love how much she loves my favorite month of the year. This is my second time through Attachments and while looking back I can see all the ways in which Rowell has grown as an author but my affection for this story has only grown. I rated this one 4 stars when I last read it for CBR5, but I’ve gone ahead and rated it five stars this time. The first time […]

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11/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:62 |

One Sees Clearly Only with the Heart

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

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Right after finishing and loving The Sun is Also a Star, I ran out to the library and got Nicola Yoon’s first novel, Everything, Everything.  Though I didn’t love it quite as much as her second book, I thought it was engaging, moving, and well-constructed.  I also can see Yoon starting to think through some minor themes that become major themes in The Sun is Also a Star. This novel is a love story, but it’s not your typical teen romance. Madeline Whittier, who is eighteen years old, is confined to her house due to an immune deficiency that leaves […]

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12/22/2016 's CBR8 Review No:35 |


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