Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Featured Review Archive

These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

there need to be about a million more Death books than there are

Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Hot take: Death is the best, but he’s the bestest best when he’s paired off with a human who can observe and call out the weirdness of his life Actual review: Having read Hogfather last Christmas for Book Group, I thought I’d start over again and read all of the DEATH series as I very much enjoyed Death’s characterization. And even though I already know part of how Death will turn out–e.g., we know about Susan and obviously Death still exists as Death etc–it’s still fascinating how […]

We All Know Facebook Is Not Good, Right?

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Best for: Anyone who is still wavering on giving up Facebook and Instagram (and Threads, though does anyone use that?). In a nutshell: Corporations with this much power SUCK. Worth quoting: “It’s so ugly. What a thing to be responsible for.” Said in reference to Facebook helping elect Trump in 2016, but I think is a great statement describing the whole of Meta. Why I chose it: My sister-in-law mentioned she was reading it and it was interesting so I thought I’d check it out, […]

Intimacies, or, How Lipgloss Led to my 13th CBR Review

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

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I hadn’t heard of Katie Kitamura until there was a small online to-do about her lipgloss. Kitamura, in an interview with New York Magazine, included a $24 lipgloss in a listicle of “15 items she can’t live without.” My regular internet reading brought to me a Hot Take about Katie’s love of this lipgloss, and here’s the Hot Take: including this very silly item in her list is tone deaf (lipgloss in this economy!?), and furthermore, lipgloss has nothing to do with literature, so it’s […]

Crime Hard

Lucky by Marissa Stapley

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If I had a nickel for every book I’ve read recently that also has Anya Taylor-Joy starring in an upcoming adaptation, I’d have two nickels which is not a lot but it’s still weird that it happened twice. Lucky Armstrong is having both the best and worst day of her life. She and her boyfriend Cary have pulled off a scam that will allow them to finally run off to live the life of luxury in the Caribbean that they’ve been working towards. Except Cary […]

I cried six times while reading this memoir slash podcast slash pop culture book.

Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On by Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs

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Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. First, here’s the blurb, because I’m not sure my review actually does a great job letting you know what the book is about: “A memoir reflecting on heartbreak, perseverance, and life lessons learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from the hosts of the hit podcast Buffering the Vampire Slayer. Kristin and Jenny’s marriage started with an ultimatum: to further their relationship, Kristin must watch Jenny’s favorite show, Buffy […]

Abundance

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Perhaps as a way to make myself feel some modicum of a real plan for the future, I read Abundance, which is a look at how best to achieve progressive goals. And to preface, I cannot recommend this book as a conversation starter more. It does a good job of pointing out the pitfalls of the current democratic party, in the landscape of the world. Whether it’s NIMBYs and blocking housing, to the legal system that seeks to stymie anything and everything, to the best […]



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