Lena Dunham is the writer, producer, director and star of HBO’s “Girls”- one of the more divisive TV shows on right now. My husband absolutely hates her. However, he absolutely loves me so he bought me her memoir as one of our Anniversary gifts (year one is paper) because despite his protests “Girls” is one of my guilty pleasures. Lena Dunham is kind of a mess- but for the most part she owns it. She is not relatable in anyway; unless you are an OCD […]
WILD
Cheryl Strayed was 22-years-old when her mother died at the age of 45. Strayed fell into a downward spiral that led to a divorce and a casual relationship with heroin. During that time she got the crazy idea to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (1,100 miles) alone. She is wildly unprepared for the journey: she has no prior backpacking experience and, despite endless research, she skips things like going on a dry run with her pack. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive […]
this is where i leave you
Hi guys! So I took a big chunk of the summer off from my Cannonball for a variety of reasons, most prominently the giant time suck that is buying a house. But I’m back, and thankful my first review in almost two months is for a book I truly enjoyed. This is Where I Leave You is a book many people have heard of in recent months due to the movie that came out last week based on the book (staring my girlfriend Tiny Fey […]
if i stay
If I Stay is the story of Mia, a seventeen year old cellist, who is in a horrific car accident that kills her family and leaves her in critical condition. Mia has an out of body experience during the course of the novel, watching over her comatose body struggling to make a decision: should she die and join her family, or live. Spoiler Alert There is a sequel. If I Stay was pretty breezy for a novel about life and death. […]
Fangirl
Can you give a book 6 stars? Fangirl was, by far, one of the best books I’ve read all year. I devoured it in two nights and my only complaint is that is ended already. Can we start an online petition for sequels to all Rainbow Rowell’s books? She always seems to leave me wanting more! Cath’s life has been devoted to Simon Snow (a Harry Potter-esq book character) since her mother left Cath and her twin sister, Wren, when they were 8. Wren has […]
Attachments
“Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . “ Attachments was a breath of fresh air that I desperately needed while reading Son of a Witch. Rainbow Rowell is fast becoming my literary girlfriend (with John Green being my literary boyfriend, of course) and I can’t wait to start Fangirl. Set in late 1999, Attachments, like Eleanor & Park, is told from the female and male perspective of a prospective romance. However, the female side of this story […]
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