Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“So thank God, quite literally, for music”

Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan

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Bingo: On Air Passport: Interview Faith, Hope and Carnage documents a series of conversations between musician Nick Cave and journalist Seán O’Hagan. The long and intimate relationship between the collaborators and Cave’s ease with self-examination have enabled this book to dig much deeper than the standard rock star memoir. This project was born out of the pandemic. In March 2020 Cave’s world tour was cancelled, and all the work put into preparing his Ghosteen album for live performance had come to nothing, bringing an extraordinary […]

I only finished Part I and already knew I liked it

Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems by Barbara Krasner

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I know little about Ethel Greenglass/Rosenberg’s life other than “the big one” (you know that thing about her and her husband being spies for the Soviet Union). But who was Ethel Rosenberg? In Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems we see the woman from a child, to school girl, to a worker, to married woman, to finally the accused spy. We see her life, her hopes, her thoughts, her dreams, her love of singing and acting, her devotion to Julius Rosenberg, and of course, […]

“Spending time in these worlds is my happy place. The problems arise when it’s time to leave…”

It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth: An auto-bio-graphic-novel by Zoe Thorogood

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Cbr15bingo Bodies, Bodies Writer/illustrator Thorogood depicts herself in a variety of different bodies in this book, and her depression takes the form of a monster that follows her around Zoe Thorogood was nominated for 5 Eisner Awards this year for her work on both Joe Hill’s Rain and her own book It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth. Thorogood is a gifted comic book artist, but It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth shows that she is also a talented writer. It’s Lonely […]

Part romance, part memoir

The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang

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Official book description: When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides that if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. Translation: She’s going to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better. That’s where tattooed, motorcycle-riding […]

CBR15 Bingo: Picture This

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kokabe

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CBR15 Bingo: Picture This (can also be used for Queer Lives) Official book description: In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to […]

Franklin and Lowe

Rosalind Looked Closer: An Unsung Hero of Molecular Science by Lisa Gerin

Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe. by Kate Messner and Margaret E. Powell

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Science and fashion do not seem like they would pair well together. However, when the scientist is Rosalind Franklin and the fashionista Ann Lowe, they actually do. Franklin was a woman during a time when girls wore pretty dresses, learned to sew and have families and did not go around discovering DNA. And Lowe was a woman who would work with her family making gowns for grand balls and after her mothers death, would make one of the most famous wedding gowns; one fit for […]



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