Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

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The subtitle “One Name, Two Fates” is slightly contradicted by the highlighted quote “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”  There may have been two different outcomes, but as the army veteran Wes Moore that authors the book acknowledges, the two were on similar paths for a large part of their childhood.  Author Wes had the advantage of a more stable household at first, until his father died of a treatable […]

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name Two Fates by Wes Moore

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CBR11 BINGO: True Story The premise of this book is interesting. How can two people, born a year apart in the same neighborhood turn out differently? At what point could the path split to lead to a successful and happy life for one and life in prison for the other? What happened along the way and can something be learned from that? As author Wes Moore is awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford, a man hunt is underway to arrest suspects wanted in […]

Halfway to Goal

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The premise seems compelling: Two boys, same name, same background, same neighborhood. However, one becomes a Rhode Scholar and the other becomes an inmate serving a life sentence. What led to these boys’ diverging paths? A reporting and analysis would be presented. Only, the final product did not deliver on that premise. Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (2010) is a New York Times bestseller that is now common on many schools’ summer reading list. That’s how I came about purchasing it. […]



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