Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“To be so ravenous with desperation that the only way out is complete and utter annihilation. A torpedo made of your own sharpened body.”- Senaa Ahmad (or me about wanting to quit this book)

The Age of Calamities: Stories by Senaa Ahmad

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I bought this book for two reasons: the New York Times highly recommended it, and I have always had a fascination with Anne Boleyn and one of the stories was said to feature her. And now you get a story by story commentary on how very much a mistake that decision was. Let’s Play Dead: Right off the bat we have the Anne Boleyn story, and right off the bat I loathe this book. Henry VIII has Anne Boleyn’s head chopped off and the next […]

Weird casting, but OK.

The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet

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So I didn’t expect this book to be what it was.  I knew it had been made into a movie back aways, with Irene Dunne as Queen Victoria (ahahaha!) and thought it was something along the lines of the Shirley Temple epic, The Little Princess, but it was definitely not that, and actually not at all a children’s book,. A definition first.  A mudlark was a child who earned his or her keep by scavenging through the “mud” on the banks of the Thames for […]



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