Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More Lady Killers, Please

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

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I am so excited about this book, y’all. I’ve been gushing about it in all my book-related chats since I started listening to it. I set it aside yesterday with about 80% finished because I wanted it to last just a little bit longer. It has been an exciting and fun escape during the awful end of summer break. A team of female assassins are set to retire and to celebrate, their employers “The Museum” have sent them on a fancy shmancy cruise. While sitting […]

I’d Pay So Much to See this as a Movie

The Change by Kirsten Miller

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When picking up the actual book I ordered at the library, I was lured in by their “new releases” display. The book jacket of The Change promised some menopause-induced magic, a murder mystery, and three bada** women taking down some powerful men on the backdrop of a coastal New  York town. So of course I picked it up, and it was an absolutely delightful ride. Harriet, Nessa, and Jo are three women in their 50s going through a rough time. Harriet’s husband leaves her for a […]

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The Book About Getting Older by Dr Lucy Pollock

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Best for: Anyone, especially in the UK, who is getting older or cares for people who are getting older. In a nutshell: Geriatrician Pollock offers advice and observations about what life can be like as we age. Worth quoting: “Many of the difficulties that come with age are common but are not inevitable; they are not normal.” Why I chose it: My parents are getting older. Review: As I write this review, I’ve just finished packing for a visit to see my parents. They are […]

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age by Sue Armstrong

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I really wanted to like this one more than I did. After all, it’s a book about (as the subtitle says) how and why we age, and as I’ll be fifty at the end of June it’s a topic that doesn’t exactly weigh on my mind, but does make me curious. Run-on sentence, hoy. Armstrong’s book looks at a great many of the physical processes behind aging (the way our cells tick down moment by moment until they die), the ways people have tried to […]

Potentially Interesting Collection Diminished by Bad Choices on Part of the Reader

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Bingo Square: Birthday This was a very frustrating read for me, and it is entirely due to the fact that I chose the wrong platform to enjoy this book.  When I popped up as a daily deal in Audible, I jumped at it with little analysis because I have always thought I need to read more Ursula K. LeGuin.  I vaguely knew it was an essay collection and thought it would be interesting to hear her thoughts on various subjects.  The problem is that it […]

All we ask is to be allowed to remain the writers of our own story

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I’m a big fan of Atul Gawande’s work, easily the best I’ve read by a medical doctor. His style is effortless, and he manages to find the right balance of technical and non-technical. Being Mortal feels like his most personal work, and I loved it. While his first three books mostly covered his own experiences through surgical residency and practice, his latest explores a topic he admits up front to knowing very little about. He mentions right away that his medical training included almost nothing […]



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