Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“You can’t run away from who you are, but what you can do is run toward who you want to be.”

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Patina by Jason Reynolds

Sunny by Jason Reynolds

Lu by Jason Reynolds

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CBR11 Bingo — And so it begins. I’ve desperately been trying to get my kids to read this summer. But in between camps, and summer classes, and the never-ending monster that is swim team, there just hasn’t been a lot of reading going on. So I’ve tried my best to make it easy for them, and to help them pick books that I just know they’ll respond to. Like I’m their personal book sommelier. And so far, we’ve had pretty good results. I picked up […]

Window Books and Mirror Books (or Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose)

Patina (Track - Book 2) by Jason Reynolds

Sunny (Track - Book 3) by Jason Reynolds

Lu (Track - Book 4) by Jason Reynolds

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Last February I read Ghost, the first book in Jason Reynold’s middle grade Track series and enjoyed it immensely though I understood I was definitely not the intended audience.  I had seen Jason Reynolds on The Daily Show, started following him on Twitter, and all that made me want to read his work—all of his work.  He’s a prolific writer, so catching up and keeping up will take some work. Flash forward to mid-December when I discovered a display of the remaining three books in […]

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

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The World According to Garp – 4/5 Stars I am trying to figure out books from the late 1970s and early 1980s, because it’s like the first time that authors really wanted to dig into sexual politics in some ways that are interesting, definitely alarming, but also handled with a kind of lack of care, or certainly a different context. This book was a huge hit when it came out and won several awards. It’s generally very good, but there’s a weird weird weird scene […]



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