Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If Uncle Stevie’s name is on it, odds are I’m going to read it.

Flight or Fright by Stephen King, Bev Vincent

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CBR11bingo #TheCollection Its no secret that I am not a huge fan of flying. I understand that it is the safest way to travel. But I usually choose to drive if I can. I like to be able to choose my own route, to leave when I want to leave, to stop when I want to stop. I like to be in control of my journey. I think the lack of that control in an airplane is part of what makes me uneasy. Oh, and […]

‘lines of a story I’ll rewrite and understand on a future rereading’

Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli

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CBR11bingo: The Collection My first experience with Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli was her evocative, heart-wrenching run-down of a questionnaire she had to translate when interviewing children seeking asylum in the US for the New York court system. I still think of Tell Me How It Ends frequently, which is what pushed me to seek out more of her writing. Sidewalks is a collection of her essays (heyo, first Bingo square!!), translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney. Much of Luiselli’s writing feels very nostalgic, almost like she’s […]

I judged this book by its cover, and that was my mistake

The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder by David Quammen

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CBR11bingo: The Collection Look at that awesome cover! It has a rhino on it, for heaven’s sake, which was enough for me to pick it up and look closer. I had been browsing books in the Quadrant Book Mart, one of my favorite little spots in Easton, PA, where I was visiting with my family two Christmases ago, when I spotted that intriguing image. Something about used book stores combined with travel makes me want to test airline luggage weight limits by stocking up on […]



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