Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A Guide to Create Your Idea of Family and Community

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community mixes anthropology and social justice activism to encourage the reader to examine what they really want their “community” to look like. Author Mia Birdsong shares stories from her network/community and from the many people she’s met through her work that highlight the many ways that people can experience family, intimate relationships, and any type of community you could need to get through this thing called life. The prevailing theme is pushing away the American Dream — […]

This wasn’t for me so not sure how to grade it

Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

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Axiom’s End, the first in a trilogy, introduces and follows Cora Sabino, a college dropout from LA. Her father, Nils Ortega, left the family several years earlier and recently has made himself an enemy of the government after leaking information about potential extra terrestrial interaction. After a second major contact event in so many weeks shakes the area and puts her family in the CIA’s crosshairs, Cora comes in contact with something nonhuman that forces her to go on the run with help from her […]

I’m Both Bad With Money and My Timing

Bad With Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together by Gaby Dunn

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I honestly can’t remember if I discovered Gaby Dunn or the Bad With Money podcast first, but I’ve been a fan of both for at least four years now. They published this book in 2019, a few season into the podcast. I purchased it then, as I had been very bad with money the majority of my adult life and was the only one in my immediate family who apparently had this flaw. I also am a massive procrastinator (not the only one in the […]

A Beautifully Frustrating Read

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Tell the Wolves I’m Home is the first-person narrative of June Elbus, a shy and standoffish fourteen-year-old living in late 1980s New York City suburbs. She idolizes her Uncle Finn, whom is her only friend and confidant, and she is completely crushed when he dies of AIDS, a still unknown disease at that point save the damning stigma to the gay community. She feels completely alone in the world until she meets Toby, a friend of Finn who shared a similar closeness and bond. As […]

Hyperbole and a Half, aka the Plight of Depressed Millenials

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I purchased this book a couple months ago but held onto it until the right time having heard I would likely digest the whole thing in a couple hours. I was feeling particularly tired and depressed today, so I figured it would be a good time to divulge. That was probably the best choice I made all day. Roughly half of the book is material Brosh previously published on the blog, including the two-part entry about depression and the meme-inspiring entry on productivity/adulthood. Despite being […]



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