Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in the Great White North. No, more north than that. Keep going. Compelled to tell a story about how I decide to read every book I read.

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90s Pop Culture Drama FTW

Hits, Flops and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick

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Recently, a Gwyneth Paltrow biography was published and people were only too happy to revisit and re-examine the old gossip about the friendship breakdown between Paltrow and our 90s queen Winona Ryder. One of the articles referenced an excerpt from Ed Zwick’s memoir. The excerpt was about his struggle to get Shakespeare in Love made, although it was primarily focused on the behind the scenes drama associated with the original cast, focusing on a young Julia Roberts. It all read as very juicy and 90s, […]

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: Time Traveller’s Wife from Wish.com?

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

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I was messaging with a friend and we were trading book recommendations a few weeks ago. I recommended she read Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and she recommended V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. She has been really enjoying listening to audiobooks while walking, but I am still a paper person and was able to get a very quick turnaround on my library reserve. I otherwise went in cold – my friend’s recommendation is that it was a really compelling story with a […]

Gothic mystery novel at it’s most just finest

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

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While on a trip to Montreal, I had a back up book in the suitcase, but the mood just wasn’t right for The Haunting of Hill House – hot, humid holidays do not call for scary, dense, chilly horror novels. So, while wandering through Old Montreal, we found a multi-lingual bookstore a few minutes before closing. Feeling rushed, I picked one of the staff recommendations, a mystery novel with a very bright cover. I had never heard of Riley Sager before but I do seem […]

Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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This memoir had been on my radar for some time, but I just wasn’t sure if I had the emotional wherewithal to read a book about losing your mother to cancer. I had been thinking about it ever since I watched Michelle Zauner’s band, Japanese Breakfast, play on Saturday Night Live (sidebar: I looked it up to see when that performance occurred, and it was in 2022. WHAT EVEN  IS TIME). However, when I had to do a very quick book shop to get something […]

Girl in a Band: A Memoir

Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon

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I have to confess I have never been a particular fan of Sonic Youth. I would read about them in Sassy, but I didn’t really hear much of their music other than when the Kool Thing video played on Much Music, and I just didn’t really love it. The band had an aura of cool (New York, friends with Chloe Sevigny, etc) that felt really beyond me because I just did not get it. However, I was in a used record store this spring and […]

The Expanse keeps expanding!

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

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This is the fourth book in The Expanse series, and sees the focus both narrow back to our main crew while also expanding into genuinely new worlds. I have been making my way through both the books and the TV series at the same time, and am now at the point where my reading is how way beyond my TV progress, but it’s ok. In this series, focal character James Holden is a perennial optimist, with noble ideas about humanity and truth and morality. He’s […]



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