Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Claire enjoys Canadian Fiction, sci-fi and books about grammar.

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Evolution is a fickle bitch

I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro

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I  set out to learn about Tig Notaro when she appeared on Star Trek: Discovery as the dry, hyper-confident engineer Jet Reno. I love this character so much that I went down the Tig Notaro rabbit hole and discovered she does not disappoint, and is possibly the only person worthy of depicting Jet Reno. I chose to do the audiobook version of her memoir, in part because I love her dry-Daria like delivery and wish I could truly perfect my like-I-give-a-fuck-about-emoting-monotone like she has. If […]

How Not To Colonize A Planet

Proxima by Stephen Baxter

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If you ever wanted to know how humanity should not go about spreading away from Earth and colonizing the universe than oooo boy does Stephen Baxter have an example for you in his 2012 book, Proxima. In a nutshell: don’t do it until we’re a united planet. Otherwise, we’re just gonna space race our asses all over the universe and probably screw over everyone involved, from the remaining earthlings, to the residents of Sol planets, and to the newbie colonizers of distant planets in far […]

Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton

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I have one of those friends who usually has a way of suggesting books to me when I need them. Or, more accurately, she literally puts them in my purse so that I can’t slink away without borrowing them. I thought this would be one of her brilliant recommendations that makes me feel better about my lot in life, and eagerly set out to read it in January. I read the first hundred or so pages and was really kind of excited about the concepts […]

Hotel Confidential

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

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Do you have a thankless job where you are expected to maintain complete and utter composure at all times, deal with difficult clients/customers, find yourself on the brink of alcoholism, work too many hours, and have a host of ridiculous stories about the shit you’ve dealt with? Jacob Tomsky does, and if you do too, then this book may just be the salve you’ve been waiting for. Despite being an arts worker, I’ve managed to avoid working in the hospitality industry to supplement my income, […]

B is for Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz

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Okay I swear I’m not doing this alphabetical thing on purpose, it just happened! The book is not called “Pizza” by the way, the boys just happen to be in front of a Pizza sign in this photo and probably thought it would be a funny way to confuse readers. There’s no way the use of this picture, and the prominence of the word ‘pizza’, so that it looks like the title, is an accident. I listened to this as an Audiobook because I read […]

What are you worth?

84K by Claire North

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Theo is an average citizen in a fairly average dystopia. You know the kind: human rights violations are normal, everyone is scared, and the government wields unilateral power with virtually no opposition; or, to be more accurate, The Company (a mega corp) runs the government, which wields power with virtually no opposition. Everyday, Theo gets up, goes to work, calculates the financial costs of crimes to society, slaps a bill on the perpetrator, bothers absolutely no one, stands up not even for himself (to the […]



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