Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Austrian nerd, published author of award winning non-fiction books that successfully bore people to death.

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Don’t we all want that?

Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Ralphael Bob-Waksberg

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I love Bojack Horseman. It’s one of the best TV-series ever, it starts out good, it only gets better as the show progresses and it culminates in an amazing finale. It’s also one of the few shows where I looked up who wrote it. I know, I should do that more often because every time I’ve done it, I’ve come across great new material to watch or read. In the case of the Bojack Horseman writers though, I mainly wanted to see if they’re ok, […]

Swampy

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne

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I’m not the biggest reader of thrillers, but my mother bought this for herself at a train station once, it looked interesting, so I “borrowed” it. Helena Pelletier is a woman with a dark past, her mother was kidnapped by her father as a child and kept in a cabin somewhere deep in the Michigan Upper Peninsula’s marshes. For the first twelve years of Helena’s life, she has no contact to the outside world, only knows her controlling, sadistic father, her shellshocked mother and a […]

How we make our own unhappiness

The Situation Is Hopeless, But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness by Paul Watzlawick

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This is a self-help book for people who scoff at self-help books. A guide through complex issues for people who claim they don’t need a guide. It’s funny, clever and only slightly pretentious. In short: what popsci should be like. Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian psychologist whose main field was human interaction/communication and its complexities. He introduces his theories in this book as well, how we communicate on two planes for example, one object based and one relationship based and how it makes clear communication […]

and they’ll live there evermore

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Dark, melancholic and undoubtedly the source of so many horror movies, We Have Always Lived in the Castle tells the story of 18-year old Mary Katherine Blackwood, her sister Constance and their wheelchair bound uncle Julian, who live in a grand house in Vermont on their own. The rest of their family died six years ago in a tragic poisoning for which Constance was blamed but acquitted. The villagers still suspect and fear her though, so she lives as a shut-in and only Mary Katherine, […]

What to do with the murderous siblings?

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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A darkly fun, twisted ride, exactly what I needed to clean my palate. I’ve been cursed a little with my book reading lately, one I really liked I forgot at my father’s place before finishing it and another one that I’m reading is amazing, but also so freaking depressing, I manage like five pages and then I need some time to recover from them. This I found by chance, I remembered the cover from the bestseller stacks, ordered it and devoured it in one day. […]

Fairy Tales of Carnal Desires

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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Yep, I definitely enjoy audiobooks more if I’ve read the book before. In this case I even enjoyed it so much, that I very predictably drifted off to sleep while listening to it. Which is fine at night, but not a particularly good idea during home office. I’ll blame it on Emilia Fox’s dulcet voice. As for the book itself: it’s a collection of retellings of fairy tales and myths, all with a slightly more feminist twist and an adult audience in mind.* The stories […]



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