Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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This memoir had been on my radar for some time, but I just wasn’t sure if I had the emotional wherewithal to read a book about losing your mother to cancer. I had been thinking about it ever since I watched Michelle Zauner’s band, Japanese Breakfast, play on Saturday Night Live (sidebar: I looked it up to see when that performance occurred, and it was in 2022. WHAT EVEN  IS TIME). However, when I had to do a very quick book shop to get something […]

Savage Appetites

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Monroe, Rachel

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Bingo Row 5 – borrow I got it from the library. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe opens and closes with a rich lady from Chicago. Although one was heiress rich and wanted crimes to be solved and the other was horse riding lessons rich and wanted to be a famous mass shooter; they weren’t really in the same social bracket or true crime fangirl bracket. But I thought they made good bookends. I always enjoy things about […]

No One Else Can Come in and Copy You

Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology by Jorge Goldstein

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Ok, keeping with the gene-theme this summer, I’ll now be briefly turning my attention to gene patents. Jorge Goldstein’s Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology is a great introduction to biological patents in the US (and beyond). It’s also a rather personal narrative; Goldstein entered the field of patent law at a time when biotechnology was experiencing some rapid advances (many of them mentioned in the previous book I reviewed), and he describes his career as like […]

The Strengths of Human Management

Causing Others to Want Your Leadership by Robert DeBruyn

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Bingo: School. This book discusses leadership for school administrators. My father was a teacher for about 20 years, before he moved into school administration. He received a second administration Masters at Bankstreet College and the book Causing Others to Want Your Leadership was one of his texts. The book is quite old: it was first published in 1976. There isn’t a single rating for it on Good Reads (though it will get mine soon enough). But the book has remarkably modern guidance and is a […]

Tales of a Profiler

Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes

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Bingo: Work. This book covers the work of a long-time criminalist. CW: Sexual assault and murder I expected more from Paul Holes’s Unmasked. I used to read a lot more true crime in the past, but this book recently caught my eye. I expected a wide variety of case studies, but was disappointed to find mostly one case was discussed, the Golden State Killer. Holes spends some time discussing his personality and his inability to express emotions in his two marriages and to his kids. […]

TLDR: Colonialism is bad

Rum: a Distilled History of Colonial Australia by Murphy, Matt

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Bingo Row 2 – culture Before Matt Murphy’s Rum: a Distilled History of Colonial Australia, I knew very little about Australia. And since most of that was from that Simpsons episode, it would be more accurate to say I knew of Australia. But I did know a decent amount about rum because I am interested in it (I drink it sometimes too), so I knew a large gap in my rum knowledge was in Australia’s history. Because everything else I knew about Australia was rum […]



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