I like Shonda Rhimes. I’ve watched Grey’s Anatomy since the beginning, I’m enjoying How to Get Away with Murder, and I even, lord help me, stuck with Private Practice till the end. I’m not sure how I missed Scandal, but I’m sure I’ll catch up someday. So I was intrigued when a friend gave me Shonda’s Year of Yes. I like all her shows, and now, I want to hang out with her. Shonda is a problematic thing to be: a famous introvert. When people […]
Between the World and Me
There’s been a lot of buzz about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me and I’m late getting on that train. This is my book club’s latest pick and after reading it, I think the discussion will be one of the best discussions we have had. To start off with, I think the choice to frame this book as a letter to his son was a brilliant choice. As the discussion was framed as a discussion rather than a lecture/speech/argument, I feel that readers can […]
Yes Please! Thank you!
My 26th review puts me at a half-Cannonball AND means I’ve now doubled the amount of books that I read last year. Go me! I’ve been trying to branch out and read some biographies of smart, badass women. I read Tina Fey’s book Bossypants earlier this year and loved it in a way very similar to the way I love this one. The reason these two are close friends is obvious. They have similarities that run deep and are very supportive of each other. […]
If I Forget Israel, Let Me Forget my Right Hand
There is a whole world of books out there written by women who have left Mormon fundamentalism, and I think I’ve read about half of them. I don’t know what it is about these books, but reading about this lifestyle is endlessly fascinating to me. Warren Jeffs and his brothers get a lot of media attention, but let me tell you, Ervil LeBaron has Jeffs beat in terms of creepiness any day of the week. Ervil and his brothers led a fundamentalist sect that lived […]
Like the war itself, I want to support it but find myself turning away from the lies and delusion
This is easily the most controversial book I’ve read for the Cannonball. First: about me. I was never in the military. But I was an army brat, and have spent most of my life around military or ex-military. While I am under no illusions about my qualifications to speak on war, I do think I understand the kind of person Chris Kyle was (in the most general sense). I’ve known people like him (in temperament if not experience) my whole life. And, frankly, I don’t […]
Come for the voice, stay for the tale
So during one of Audible’s last big sales I stocked up. Like, bought 7 books stocked up. I couldn’t help myself, my commute is about to triple next week so I’ve needed to increase my collection. It meant trying out a bunch of books that caught my fancy, and this was the first on the list. Alan Cumming will always be Mr. Elton to me thanks to Gwenyth’s Emma adaptation (I enjoy Jeremy Northam as my Mr. Knightley so this is my preferred version to […]
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