Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Marisol got into an intense relationship with the people on The Facts of Life…

As Good as New by Charlie Jane Anders

The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders

Six Months Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders

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Three shorts by Charlie Jane Anders, all audiobooks bought pretty cheaply on Audible (1 or 2 each) and all about various kinds of what-ifs regarding the space-time continuum. All of which goes pretty hand in hand with the fact that I woke up at 2am the other night and couldn’t get back to sleep and bingewatched the first season of “Future Man” which I honestly can’t recommend enough. That said! As Good as New This story begins with a young playwright/med student in year two […]

You can find her in the group of beautiful thugs and too fast girls congregating on the corner and humming the latest rag…

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Sadaiya Hartman

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This is a very very good social history of Black women in New York and Philadelphia in the early decades of the 20th century. Drawing from sources like diary entries, court and police records, newspaper articles, and other sources that are then flipped on their face to tell the everyday histories of women who would and have been lost to history. So rather than let the sources be definitive, there’s a kind of inverting them. This is told in a narrative history way so it’s […]

Cities are loud places.

A Woman of the World by Rebecca Gilman

The Messengers by Lindsay Joelle

Finding Tess by Beth Macy

The Power of Self-Compassion by Laurie Cameron

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These two months’ worth of Audible Originals. I tend to make my selections based on length (preferring shorter to longer) and go for things that are more memoirs, mystery, or podcasty. This mostly hits that, but I can’t seem to stay away from some of the plays written for Audible, which generally aren’t great. A Woman of the World – This is one of those plays written for Audible, but I think it’s better than many of the previous ones I’ve come across. This play […]

November 7th — Plant the indoor bulbs.

Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield

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This is a novel in diary form from a middle class woman in her late 30s or early 40s in a local social scene. The novel is from the early 1930s, and marks this primarily through the book club selections of our narrator’s social scene and a relatively cursory interest in UK politics (blandly arguing about the prime minister). It’s novel that doesn’t have a lot of plot or conflict, but is both really insightful and incisive of middle-class life, but is also really funny […]

The boy who lived.

The History of Magic by JK Rowling

Tales of the Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

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Two books produced by Pottermore and maybe these have been recently produced as audiobooks. I bought The History of Magic for cheap on Audible shortly after reading Quidditch through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them in the fall. Beedle the Bard is a new audiobook and free on Audible currently.   The Tales of Beedle the Bard We all know the one story quite well, The Tale of the Three Brothers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and there’s no […]

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

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A memoir turned polemic turned treatise about death in the United States, this book begins with the narrator, Caitlin Doughty leaving college with a degree in Medieval Studies (focusing on death and death rituals) and taking a job in the crematory industry in San Fransisco. We jump right in and follow the new hire as she’s shaving an elderly dead man for the funeral preparation. Like Doughty, we too are brand new to this world and like her getting a hands on initiation into it. […]



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