Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Depression, the book (Reading the TBR)

The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno

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I once discussed my frustration and incredulity that Wes Anderson’s movies were considered comedies with a friend (mind you, this was just around the time that The Life Aquatic was released), as I was horrified by the suicide attempt in The Royal Tennenbaums. As she described the plot of The Life Aquatic as a similar “quirky, charming, adorable, EXISTENTIAL HORROR, 70s music b-sides, the end” I started laughing as I could not believe that was a description of a comedy. Basically the only thing funny […]

Cannonballer Says

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

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Ok, my Cannonball Says entry for Bingo might be kind of a cheat, because… let’s be real, I’m enough of a Rowell fangirl that I was gonna buy this with or without a good review from a cannonballer. That said, choosing this book allows me to highlight how clever scootsa1000’s review title is (let’s talk about Seth, baby) as well as to tip my hat to a cannonballer who might love Rainbow Rowell more than I do. I feel like this might be one of […]

She blinded me with science

Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson

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My Science pick for Bingo could easily be my I Love It selection, because behavioral science in all its forms is my jam. I think I’ve included the line “I was hoping for an Oliver Sacks version of topic X” in approximately half of my non fiction reviews and each time been disappointed, but this more or less hit the mark.  I mean, I love you Helen Thomson, but you’re not quite Oliver Sacks, but getting as close as you did to filling his shoes […]

Far and Away

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

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The depths of the Pacific Ocean, native home to many of the octopuses that we encounter in the aquarium profiled by Sy Montgomery in this book, is about as alien an environment as I can imagine while still being on the same planet.  Montgomery doesn’t restrict herself to the octopuses in the tanks in her exploration of aquatic life, and goes scuba diving to see the cephalopods and their dens in the wild. Montgomery is an interesting author for exploring another world as she does […]

Youths

Confessions of an average boy by Mark Hill

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Pretty sure I bought this due to enjoying Hill’s work on Cracked but I’m hard pressed to remember which articles inspired adding this to the “I’ll buy you when I have money” Amazon black hole, in part because it stayed there a LONG time.  And at first I was really wondering what the heck I was thinking.  Not to be that guy, but it’s self published and that alone made me skeptical. The actual story doesn’t invite too much promise either. Our protagonist is kind […]

Own Voices

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

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  This is my Bingo choice for Own Voices and it’s simultaneously a great one and a terrible one in that it is a fictional book written by a transgender lesbian author about the struggles of changing one’s body to reflect a changing understanding of ones self, and the love the protagonist has for her same-sex roommate.  Perfect, right? The body she’s changing into is a non-human one, not because she has never felt at home with herself, but because their telepathic hormonal communication works […]



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