Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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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 […]

Elastic tension lashed their cars together across space, alone on the road, nothing in his head but grief and freedom.

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

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Andrew held the clutch and eased onto the gas, pushing revs while the digital readout reminded him to hold it, wait for the right moment to explode. Sam’s fingers touched the rim of the moon hanging in the sky. A shudder ripped across the bones of Andrew’s forearms, terror and delight and the promise of risk bringing him to life. ― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons For fuck’s sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you? ― Lee Mandelo, […]

I was sixteen. I lived inside of myself way more than I lived inside of this town.

Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

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I started grabbing everything I could find and I had no idea what other people thought was good or what was important. And so I almost never told anyone what I liked because I was terrified that they would tell me how stupid it was. Every single thing that you loved became the source of both intense obsession and possible shame. Everything was a secret. ― Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic Frankie is a sixteen-year-old girl with three feral older brothers […]

My heart is wrapped up in you.

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

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“If you’re going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.” ― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King While our classmates are getting zongered at the Holiday Inn in Cookeville and getting pregnant, you and I will be playing in the sprinkler and looking up at the stars until your curfew. ― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King After his father, the magnetic preacher of a full-on “speaking-in-tongues and handling snakes” church is sent to prison, Dillard Early Jr. has the weight of […]



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