Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When someone tries to put all their ideas and research into one novel

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

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Bingo Square: Justice (there’s systemic oppression, a character unjustly punished for crime, ideas about legality vs morality) Southern Lit Book club is starting back up for the fall session and this was the first book. While I enjoyed The Help when it came out, I also think the later critiques were valid, and wasn’t exactly in a huge hurry for this one but book club was a nice excuse to read this. And it’s a bit of mixed reaction – it’s fine but I was […]

Well, it made me learn some history about alcohol

The Bitter End Birding Society by Amanda Cox

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Bingo Square: Bird (there’s a whole bird watching group – and it’s in the title) Another book I only read for a book club! This was the March choice for the Southern lit one, and I didn’t really do any research before starting it, just read the quick blurb on the back to know what the story was about. While there was a plot about a preacher’s son and the moonshiner’s daughter, it wasn’t until I was over halfway through that I started thinking there […]

Apple headed dolls and missing girls

The Witch’s Orchard by Archer Sullivan

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In addition to author events, the local independent bookstore hosts a few book clubs. When I moved here, the sessions were closed but I signed up for two of them when they opened for the spring. This was the first selection for the Southern Lit book club, which is also the one I am doing with my mom. Overall, it was a good book. Even though I like mysteries, this isn’t one I would have likely picked up on my own since I tend to […]



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