Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Our myths have not served us well.”

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

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I don’t imagine this will be a long review, not because the work doesn’t deserve it, and not because there wasn’t plenty to discuss during our book club earlier this fall, but because after spending months with this work, I don’t know how much more brain space I can give it. In a not insignificant way, I need to be done with this work for now. This book is a discussion. Its various contributors are providing context, new or more in-depth analyses of how so […]

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The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

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CW: as you might imagine, a lot I don’t think anyone is going to read or not read this book based on reviews by this point. Either you are receptive to the ideas that Hannah-Jones is about to lay out for you in helpful detail and with inescapable logic, or you think that she’s a proto-terrorist set to destroy your dreams of a glorious America first hellscape. I mean, both sides amirite? So I’ll instead focus on some of the takeaways I have on what […]

Book Club Discussion Post: The 1619 Project

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Other Discussions The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Welcome to our Banned Books book club! This go round we’ve selected three books that have been banned or challenged for various reasons. Each of our books – All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – have their own Discussion Posts. Even if you weren’t […]

The 1619 Project

The 1619 Project by Editor: Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Jones’s opening essay from the original project is still part of this book, but the book begins instead with a new introduction to the collected book version. I was really excited to hear this new introduction because it addressed something I thought was missing from a lot of the discourse around the project. I am not a historian and would never claim to be one, and the only way I know how to think through historical writing is through comparison among different texts. In addition, […]

The Banned Books #CannonBookClub We’re With The Banned

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Cannon Book Club is live! Join in any or all of our three discussion posts: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas   It is a little hard to believe, but we are a little over three weeks away from our Banned Books #CannonBookClub. (Where has this summer gone?) In honor of Banned Books Week’s 40th birthday we are reading All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, The 1619 […]

#CannonBookClub September Book Club Announcement

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Our September Book Club will be discussing Banned or Challenged Books on September 16-17, just ahead of Banned Book Week (September 18-24, 2022). Forty years ago, Banned Book Week began as a response to a sudden surge in book challenges in 1982. With the current push to limit access to books dealing with sexuality, gender identity, and race, we asked you what you wanted to read; and we’ve tallied up the votes for the top three. The books selected for our discussion come from a […]



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