Don’t let the Oprah.com quote on the front of Love All discourage you from giving it a try. Love All opens with the death of Joanie Cole. Joanie leaves behind her 86 year old husband, Bob, and her daughter, Anne, who have a tumultuous relationship following a scandal in 1962 regarding the publication of The Sex Cure. The Sex Cure was written by a local writer and used real neighbor’s affairs as it’s subject matter which caused a rift in the marriage of Joanie and […]
Shopping, Seduction and Mr. Selfridge
Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge has a very specific target audience: people who are interested in history, fashion and the retail business. I happen to be one of those people, I read the Stanley Marcus book Minding the Store for pleasure while I was a junior in college. I’d recommend Mr. Selfridge over Mr. Marcus if you enjoy a little scandal, because Mr. Selfridge was pretty scandalous. Fashion succeeds as a business precisely because its obsolescence is inevitable. Harry Gordon Selfridge was an American who […]
Girl Walks into a Bar…
I read Tina Fey’s Bossypants pre-Cannonballread and Amy Poheler’s Yes, Please last year, both women mention Rachel Dratch in their memoirs because they were friendly in Chicago and on SNL at the same time. For the last few years Girl Walks into a Bar… has been on my recommendations lists from Barnes & Nobel, Amazon and Goodreads- so it was time to give Ms. Dratch a spin. Girl is different than her colleagues’ memoirs because SNL wasn’t the stepping stone for her career, it was […]
Mental Illness without the ballroom dancing
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock tells the story of Leonard Peacock’s eighteenth birthday. It’s not a difficult read, but it took me a while to get through because it has some heavy themes that sometimes you just want to leave on the bedside table for an evening. Leonard is a very troubled young man and Matthew Quick has a talent for writing deeply trouble characters. “I’m trying to let him know what I’m about to do. I’m hoping he can save me, even though I realize […]
Just read this damn book
Well, it took me a little longer to get through than badkittyuno took to get through (two days, not one evening) but Big Little Lies has set a high bar for my second Cannonballread. I had never heard of this book until my sister was returning it to our mutual friend on Sunday before stopping to ask if I wanted to shot at it first. I’m glad I said yes! At the start of the book there is a murder at a local Elementary school […]
The Hundred Foot Journey to Mediocrity
Happy New Year Cannonballers! So my “official” goal is a full cannonball, since we can’t elect for a higher one through the website, but I’m shooting for 1 1/2 this year so time to get moving. I really want to add more “adult fiction” to my repertoire this year, since last year was mostly YA and memoirs, but unfortunately I started with a pretty ho-hum entry in the field. The Hundred-Foot Journey chews through about 40 years in less than 300 pages and therefore leaves […]
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