Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Solid Chicken Cookbook.

Winner, Winner! Chicken Dinner: 50 Winning Ways to Cook it Up by Stacie Billis

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I cook a lot of chicken. I was a vegetarian for twenty plus years, but a few years ago something changed and I had a hard time digesting a lot of my protein staples. I started eating chicken again and immediately felt better. Bodies are weird. For all the cookbooks I have, I don’t really have any that are chicken focused. I still gravitate towards vegetarian cookbooks. I requested Winner, Winner! Chicken Dinner from NetGalley because my chicken repertoire is haphazard. I received this in exchange […]

It’s Actually Almost over, but still a fun book to read

Almost Time by Gary D. Schmidt

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Growing up in Vermont you know Maple Syrup from a young age. If your school did not take you on at least one trip to a family who ran sap lines, collected and boiled the sap, you probably where not in Vermont. Maple Sugar Candy is a favorite of mine. As a kid I would eat it until I was sick. Many people love that rich sticky syrup (pancakes and French toast are recommended but snow is good too. Helps makes a molasses like candy). […]

We have a diet-culture epidemic

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison

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This is probably the last food/body/eating book I’ll review for some time as, honestly, I’m tired of thinking about it! If you were to go through all of my Goodreads list in the last few years you’d see a sort of accidental autobiography of health and body phases – the “Wellness Diet” phase (Whole 30, keto, various “lifestyle” books, etc), then some disordered eating books, and then acceptance books like Intuitive Eating, Caroline Dooner’s The F It Diet, and finally this one. I’m glad I’m wear […]

this woman’s work

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley

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Bill Bryson’s delightful At Home: A Short History of Private Life came first, but Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk separates itself from the predecessor by being, well, more intimate! I promise this will be a review of If the Walls Could Talk, but if you are ever in need of a peaceful “sleep read” then I highly recommend plugging into the audio adaptation of Bryson’s book- it is seriously soothing. The biggest difference between At Home and If Walls Could Talk is the female perspective. Bryson’s book was framed around […]

Six Drinks and A Few Empires

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

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I need to clean off my coffee table. I remembered something from A History of the World in 6 Glasses, but then couldn’t find the book to confirm it. I figured maybe I’d finished it way earlier than I thought and had given it away. But no, it was just buried under stuff on the coffee table. Turns out, I hadn’t quite finished it either. The premise is a history of cultural development around the world as it connects to the general history of the […]

A Georgie Badiel inspired picture book

The Water Princess. by Susan Verde

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So many questions come to mind during and after reading The Water Princess. Some are: How do the women get any work done in the village? Who cares for any children unable to go to the watering hole? Who fixes meals for the men who are working? Then my thoughts turn to, “What a story.” This is the journey of some women and children every day. They travel unbelievable amounts of miles to get only a few gourds of water to cook, clean and bathe […]



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