Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have five year old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

Carriejay's Reviews:

An excellent beach read

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Bingo Square: Summer Read Emma Blair is madly in love with her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They spend years after graduation travelling the world, both together and for their jobs, and love every minute of it. They’ve escaped their home town and love the freedom that brings. Then, on their one year wedding anniversary, the helicopter Jesse is on goes missing over the Pacific. Emma is devastated. She slowly puts her life back together, returning to the hometown she had fled from and the humdrum […]

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Bingo Square: Listicle (from here). Evelyn Hugo is an ageing film legend who has been notoriously private about her life and career choices. Now she’s finally ready to talk, and she has chosen Monique Grant, an unknown journalist, as the one to tell her story. Monique is thrilled and flattered but also a little wary as she heads to Hugo’s home for days on end to listen to one of the world’s most famous women tell her tale. And a glittering one it is, about […]

What is normal?

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says. So many reviewers for this one but Manimama and faintingviolet loved it. I wish I had liked it as much as them. Over the span of a few years we follow classmates Connell and Marianne. At school he is popular and seemingly outgoing while she is a loner who is often made fun of. What connects them is Connell’s mother, who works as a cleaner at Marianne’s house. There they get to know each other a little before starting a sexual […]

But seriously, why don’t kids come with a manual?

Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years―No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki

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Bingo Square: Reader’s Choice, replacing Two Heads Are Better Than One Jamie Glowacki is the potty training whisperer. She wrote the very popular Oh Crap! book that a lot of parents use when facing this particular parenting hurdle. I used it! It was very helpful. And I liked her style of writing and no nonsense attitude. This is a more general follow up dealing with toddlers and their particular brand of insanity. Sorry, development. The book is split into two parts, the parenting part and […]

OK, but Y is he called Yorick?*

Y: The Last Man, Vol 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan, Jr

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Bingo Square: Illustrated In July 2002, a worldwide catastrophe happens. All living beings with a Y chromosome simultaneously die. Except for one young man named Yorick Brown, and his Capuchin monkey. In an instant the world has shifted, and women are left picking up the pieces. Some are trying to do so through governing, others, known as the Amazons, are more violent. When the latter discover Yorick’s existence they go after him, wanting to remove all trace of men from existence. His sister, Hero** is […]

“That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story.”

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

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Bingo Square: Own Voices* In Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run the Miracle Submarine, an experimental medical treatment. Its users include Elizabeth and Kitt, both of whom have sons with autism; Teresa and her daughter Rosa, who has cerebral palsy; and Matt, a doctor with infertility. All are hoping for some miracle cure or even an improvement from this treatment. And the Yoos are hoping it changes their lives, in a slightly different way. Having come from Korea without her husband several years […]



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