This wonderful cannonball book exchange inspired an essay on the importance of the tangible in books; a subject close to my heart. Coming home my apartment seemed slightly bleak and dark compared to the sparkling holidays where my parents lit candles and christmas carols endlessly adorned a gold and silver tree. Instead, in my apartment, on the other side of Christmas, was completely overthrown with books and scraps of paper. It was a reminder of my deadline in January. A deadline that seemed a large, […]
I read The Secret, so you don’t have to
I admit it. Curiosity took me by the nose and all through this terrible book. This book was one long upbeat infomercial about the power of the secret and I was strapped to my chair with those horrid eyeopeners. I knew I was supposed to feel hooked and excited by the power to change my own life. But this book is a soft blanket for rich people who think basic kindness and generosity is a secret superpower to get them what they want. I mean it’s probably […]
You should be a bad feminist
I wanted to quote this entire book. So many passages had me screaming, yes, yes, yes. Gay hits the nail on the head in her collection of scattered essays going all the way from scrabble to movie reviews to society. She is definitely strongest when she takes something in society and picks it apart based on phenomena in literature. I imagine a lot of cannonballers enjoy reading book reviews and if so Gay is a tremendous joy. She does battle with some inconsistencies, but it […]
The utter depravity of humanity
Joseph K wakes up one day in the absence of his breakfast. Instead strange men are waiting in his apartment with the order for his arrest. They eat his breakfast, but they will not tell him the charges against him nor the details of his inexplicable arrest. Despite his arrest he is not incarcerated and he cannot get information on his hearings or court procedures. Instead he is expected to go to his office and carry on with his daily life as he awaits his […]
Yes, more please.
I love Amy Poehler and I could not write a bad review of her new book, “Yes, please!” if you held a gun to my head. This review will be highly biased, but since no sane person could not love and adore Poehler, I have a feeling that this won’t really matter much anyways. In this book she is deeply honest. While the book covers her childhood, her time at SNL and her stint at Parks and Recreation it might follow a pretty standard formula, […]
A marriage picked apart.
I love finding books for a dollar, buried underneath boring cookbooks and meaningless scandinavian crime-lit, and then have these books be something special. Also, Kate Winslet was on the cover and I’ve always been a little bit in love with her. I’d heard about the movie, but not enough to know the premise. That’s a good thing, because the premise is trite; April and Frank move into Revolutionary Road. They are the young beautiful couple that everyone envies and the book is dedicated to picking […]
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