Since with CBR6 I dropped the ball and didn’t regularly contribute, I can’t possibly expect regular Cannonballers to recall that I have a penchant for World War II stories, badass ladies, and intrigue. Suffice it to say, I do, so when my book club chose to read Clare Mulley’s The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville I was stoked. While at times tedious, the biography delivers all my jams, in spades! I won’t go into too many of the historical details […]
Learning About Prison the Best Way–Vicariously
I watched only a bit of Orange is the New Black on television before I lost interest. I couldn’t connect with the main character, and I found the storyline a little troubling. I couldn’t understand why we needed a rich, white woman to tell us about prison, and the humor of it hit me the wrong way. But the show continued to grow in popularity, and I continued hearing about it. And then I noticed the book, Orange is the New Black (2010) by Piper […]
A memoir that left me with mixed feelings
My first non-romance review of the year, and it’s a book I have not been able to view positively. I often avoid bestsellers like the plague until I have a friend who’s book opinions I trust tell me to try it (like Station Eleven, I’m listening to it now, it’s a-mah-zing!). So why did I read Wild? Well, I moved ~6 months ago to this charming area almost three thousand miles from all my friends, but thankfully near my sister. And therefore I work (too […]
Hip-Hop Grawlix with a Side of Family and Food
Fresh Off the Boat is a memoir from Eddie Huang, the owner of the popular NYC restaurant Baohaus. The book is divided into 2 sections. The first takes up eleven chapters and covers Eddie’s childhood and school memories, and the second section spends the last six chapters from mid-college to the opening of Bauhaus. The book begins when Eddie is about seven years old and introduces a variety of family members as a group. Family plays a large part of the book, as does the […]
Constantly movin while makin millions
I sometimes have trouble writing reviews of autobiographies. Especially when the author is still very much alive and active and online. I feel like I can’t be honest. I don’t have that problem with writing about Eddie Huang’s “Fresh Off the Boat” though because he seems like the kind of guy who appreciates honesty over careful wording. There were times when this book was incomprehensible to me. I’m not up on basketball or hip-hop so I was grateful for the footnotes that show up occasionally. […]
The Marriage of the Century
I read How to be a Movie Star after Elizabeth Taylor passed away four years ago and was instantly taken with the story of “Liz& Dick.” Furious Love focuses primarily on the years that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton shared together. There is background on both of their lives leading up to Rome, 1962 and the Cleopatra set but the star attraction in this biography is the 25 years they spent loving and hating each other. Anyone interested in the history of cinema knows the […]
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