I’m about 2/3 of the way done with the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix but I’m trying to make my Potter immersion 100% before the end of CBR9 so I’ve also added the novellas JK Rowling wrote like this and the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which I’ll hit closer to Deathly Hallows) to my TBR. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, cowritten by Ms. Rowling and Newt Scamander, is a brief encyclopedia of the magical creatures that inhabit the Wizarding world but hide from […]
“I’m not writing it to explain some of the painful situations I’ve either landed in or thrown myself into. I’m writing it because I was paid to write it.”
I am an Alec Baldwin apologist. I know he is a bit of a dick in his personal life but 30 Rock is one of my favorite shows of all time and I’m loving his Trump impersonation on SNL. If you are not an Alec Baldwin apologist then you’ll probably dislike this memoir; he doesn’t come across well and he is a bit petty in the recounting of his life. His childhood was rough; he grew up with five brothers & sisters and very little money to […]
Lion
A Long Way Home is Saroo Brierley’s 2013 memoir that was the basis for the 2016 film, Lion. Out of last year’s Oscar contenders, of which I saw all but Manchester by the Sea and Fences, Lion was by far my favorite. It has a lot of heart, it’s well acted and it’s a pretty unbelievable story. There were half a dozen women fixing their mascara in the bathroom after the credits rolled. Saroo’s memoir is a more fleshed out and in depth telling of his journey. Saroo was born in […]
All Hail the Women Behind the Chief
From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, each of these women has carved out her own path, all while raising her children, serving as her husband’s greatest protector and confidante, and negotiating the fraught relationship between her staff in the East Wing and her husband’s advisers in the West Wing. I loved Kate Andersen Brower’s The Residence and was super excited to receive First Women as part of the CBR gift exchange last year. I’m always slow to get to the books I own vs. library books with deadlines but […]
Wonder-filled
“Kinder than is necessary. Because it’s not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.” Wonder is a wonderful story about a boy, August, who was born with severe facial deformities. Numerous surgeries coupled with his parents reservations kept him from being a typical school environment until this year. This year August will attend 5th grade at Beecher Prep. The school principal enlists a few of August’s classmates a few weeks before term starts to show him around. One of those boys, Jack, becomes […]
“Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?”
Like half a dozen other Cannonballers I have gone back through the Carrie Fisher catalog in the months following her untimely passing. The Princess Diarist, Shockaholic and now Wishful Drinking (yeah, I realize I went backwards but I read them chronologically the last go around). “If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.” I listened to the audio-book this go around, which I wasn’t ready to do with her other two memoirs, and it really punches you in the face how […]
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