Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About Caitlin_D

CBR 2
CBR 6
CBR 7
CBR 8
CBR 9
CBR10 participant
CBR11 participant
CBR13 participant

I skipped CBR for 2020 because I was expecting my first child and knew time would be finite. Then the world imploded and I missed the crap out of y'all. Plus I read so much less without y'all's recommendations! (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Caitlin_D's Quick Questions interview.)

Caitlin_D's Reviews:

“Favorite food? Brunch and tacos.”

Meaty: essays by Samantha Irby

by Leave a Comment

This book is dedicated to the kid Maurice in my US history class my junior year who called me a fucking idiot. lol bruh I was not overly enamored by Samantha Irby’s We Are Never Meeting in Real Life but I was looking for a breezy memoir to listen to following a string of serious books and Meaty was available for immediate download off Overdrive. Plus my sister stans hard for Irby so I felt obligated to give her another shot. I will say I vastly preferred her debut Meaty over […]

“Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?”

Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution by Amber Tamblyn

by Leave a Comment

Era of Ignition is Amber Tamblyn’s feminist manifesto that is part memoir part call to arms for women, primarily American women, to stand up for themselves and their sisters against the patriarchy. Tamblyn, a child star most recognized for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Joan of Arcadia, became a force in the Me Too movement after she publish an op-ed in the New York Times. She also famously joined the Women’s March in January 2017 while she was 8 months pregnant, with a daughter. “This world demands nothing short […]

“A kid born in Flint will live fifteen years less than a kid born in a neighboring suburb. Imagine what fifteen years of life means.”

What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

by 1 Comment

What the Eyes Don’t See is an eyeopening look at the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Flint, Michigan written by the pediatrician who brought the health crisis to national prominence by holding a press conference to discuss the correlation between the blood lead levels in children following the change to Flint River as the water source for the city. “Where is the American Dream in the Flint scenario? It’s not there. It’s not even talked about. It is becoming so out of reach. At the end of […]

“Irena had wanted an adventure and, knowing that they were fighting against their oppressor, even if it was dangerous, made her feel alive.”

Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto by Tilar J. Mazzeo

by Leave a Comment

Irena Sendler is known as the female Schindler especially in her homeland of Poland. Irena, along with a vast network of resistance members, are responsible for saving 2,500 children from Nazi occupied Warsaw during World War II. Irena’s father was a doctor who passed away when Irena was a child but not before instilling the importance of social work in his young daughter. While the timeline of their meeting is unclear Irena met a Jewish young man named Adam and fell in love sometime in […]

… if one of them is dead

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen McManus

by Leave a Comment

I enjoyed 2017’s One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus (and won a signed copy in last year’s bingo!) so I was immensely looking forward to her sophomore novel Two Can Keep a Secret. Luckily I was not disappointed! There. That’s how you navigate an awkward conversation. No need to lead with Sorry your mom drove her car into a jewelry store while she was high on opioids and had to go to rehab for four months. Just acknowledge the elephant in the room, sidestep, […]

the Justice Circle

It Wasn't Me by Dana Alison Levy

by Leave a Comment

It Wasn’t Me is a very young skewing YA novel that does little to mask its similarities to The Breakfast Club. Theo, a gay seventh grade with a penchant for photography, discovers the collection he had just put on display at school were vandalized and there are five other students at the scene of the crime. If that wasn’t bad enough, the next day his attempt to redo the prints is ruined when someone opens the door to the dark room during their development. Since the following week […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo