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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“A penny saved is a penny earned.”–Benjamin Franklin

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

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I think I saw The Psychology of Money (2021) by Morgan Housel on a “best of” non-fiction list somewhere, although I am not certain. I have a lot of fear when it comes to investing and saving my money. I also have a (reasonable?) fear of not having enough money to live comfortably and falling into ruin. It probably doesn’t help that whatever we had of a safety net in the United States feels like it’s rapidly deteriorating. So, I tend to be pretty conservative when it […]

History, women, and books

The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes

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CBR17Bingo: “B” I first thought that The Boxcar Librarian (2025) by Brianna Labuskes might be a good present for my mother, since she was a librarian herself. But I wouldn’t give any book to my mother that I wasn’t willing to read myself, so I put a hold on it at the library. This book takes place around the Depression Era of the 1930’s, and the story follows three different women whose lives are unexpectedly intertwined: Millie, Alice, and Colette. Millie grew up on her aunt and […]

Where everything is explained

Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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CBR17Bingo: “Play” – because Gladwell discusses sports at Harvard I read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell back in 2009 and found it interesting. Since then I’ve read a number of other books by Gladwell that I’ve liked in varying amounts. When I saw that Gladwell had written Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering (2024), I was curious enough to pick up the audiobook. Gladwell uses examples to show how overstories, superspreaders, and group makeup influence a number of things in our […]

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The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

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CBR17Bingo: “Arts” because this book has a heavy emphasis on sculpture and painting. I am usually very good about writing my reviews in the order that I read the books, but Seven Sisters (2015) by Lucinda Riley somehow slipped through the cracks. Maybe I just didn’t want to think about this book anymore. Seven Sisters is the first book in a series of eight, and it was chosen recently for my book club. I dutifully downloaded the audiobook and began listening to the over eighteen hours of narrative. This […]

“The perimenopause book”

All Fours by Miranda July

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CBR17Bingo – “Review” – because of the many and varying reviews I found of this book, which encouraged me to read it. I first heard of All Fours (2024) by Miranda July when my husband began reading it. In hindsight, it might be a little bit surprising that my husband started reading “the perimenopause” book before I’d even heard of it, but he’s always getting recommended new books by various online sources. Although he gave up on it about one third of the way through, I kept […]

Forty women trapped in a bunker for years

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

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CBR17Bingo: “Diaspora” – a little bit of a stretch, but this book has countless people all taken from their homes and brought to another location that is foreign to them. (It’s unclear, but it seems like they may have been brought from a different planet.) I stumbled on this book while browsing Audiobooks for something to listen to in my car. I had no idea what I was getting into. I Who Have Never Known Men (1995) by Jacqueline Harpman was originally written in French and has recently been […]



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