Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random hobbies!

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Is shooting someone in the arm art?

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

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I’ve read Nothing to See Hear by Kevin Wilson, and really liked the creativity and tone of the novel. So, when my book club chose The Family Fang (2011) by Wilson, I was excited for more of the same. Although this book was still unique and creative, I did not like it as much as Nothing to See Hear. We did have a good discussion at my book club, and I learned a bit about some of the history of performance art. However, I never felt as connected or sympathetic […]

There but for the grace of god go I

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

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Some of my favorite audiobooks are memoirs that are read by the author, so I tend to look for memoirs when I need a new audiobook for my commute. I had heard of Matthew Perry’s book: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (2022), but hadn’t gotten around to it. Then Matthew Perry died on October 28, 2023 with Ketamine in his system. Although I never followed his life very closely, I was a fan of Friends when I was younger, and I felt I owed it to him […]

Like the frog in hot water

The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell

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I generally avoid books on climate change because they scare the shit out of me. There’s nothing like reading for hours about how we’re mindlessly ruining our only planet to bring out maximum anxiety and helplessness. I’m always left with a deep urge to do something, and feeling that it’s all out of my hands anyway. But I also don’t like to be ignorant, so when I saw The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (2023) by Jeff Goodell on NPR’s “Books we Love” […]

Romance and Reality TV

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

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Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of writing partners and best friends, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. I didn’t know this book was by a writing team until after I finished, but it sounds like a fun idea. And then you get to do press with your best friend, which would be way more fun than traveling around the country by yourself. Anyway, they wrote The True Love Experiment (2023), a contemporary romance novel about a reality television dating show. Now, my husband and I have been a […]

Dragons, magic, and a love triangle

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I was seeing Fourth Wing (2023) by Rebecca Yarros all over the place, including NPR’s Best Books List. Fantasy is not a go-to genre for me, but I was starting to get some FOMO and decided I needed to see for myself. Fourth Wing is the first book in a planned series of five. Right now, only the first two books have been published. I wasn’t sure if I would like it when I started, and there were a couple scenes in the beginning that had be rolling my eyes. […]

If you could explore all your possible lives…

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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I saw The Midnight Library (2020) on a random book list that popped up on my phone. It was a list of ten books that the author wished they could read again for the first time. I liked the idea of this list, and I liked some of the books on it. In addition, the premise of this novel sucked me right in. Somewhere, there is a library of books that holds every possible life you could have lived. I’ve spent many moments of my life wondering what […]



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