Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me by Jim Benton

My Little Thief  by Augusten Burroughs

A Pizza My Heart by Stephani Stilwell

The Making of Butterflies by Zora Neale Hurston

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Time for the round-up of books I want to review but cannot do 250 words each for. They range from picture books to graphic novels. And we see old favoirte authors, new ones, and adult auhotrs coming to dark side (afterall, we are kids and have cookies). Sometimes I like Jim Benton, sometimes I do not. And this was a do not. Catwad Volume 1: It’s Me is a collection of (to some, though the line about running hate for Catwad was amusing) humorous stories […]

Lust and Wander (Rainbow Flag)

Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

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My choice for my Rainbow Flag bingo space is Augusten Burroughs’ Lust and Wonder, another memoir from the author of Running With Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking. I love Burroughs’ earlier books, and there are flashes of brilliance here, but I think that this reads more like a diary than a cohesive book. Burroughs writes here about relationships both failed and successful, and his pattern of allowing his anxiety and neuroses to have him fall into familiar patterns of denying his feelings and attempting to […]

CBR Bingo- BINGO! Throwback Thursday

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So I have been playing Bingo all wrong. I’ve been aiming, and have a plan for, a blackout but I haven’t been paying attention to actually achieving 5 in a row traditional Bingos until now! I haven’t read Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs since before I joined Cannonball Read but I read it a few times in high school and college so it seemed like a good choice for Throwback Thursday. Since I’ve read Burroughs’s memoir numerous times I opted for the audiobook version for […]

I really wanted to like this more than I did…

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I’ve read most of Augusten Burroughs’s previous memoirs; my favorite of his books, Running with Scissors, is probably his most popular- it even inspired a movie adaptation. In his latest memoir, Lust & Wonder, Burroughs recounts the three big romantic relationships he had spanning the few years prior to his writing career taking off to the present day. Burroughs is a mess. He’s made a career of being a mess. The events of this book highlight how much of a mess he is, primarily in […]

“Was it even fair to expect the person you’re with to be just as happy as you? Furthermore, how could you ever even know for sure?”

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I read Augusten Burroughs’s memoir about his extremely messed up childhood, Running With Scissors, sometime when it first came out in 2002. Since then, I’ve read many, many memoirs about messed up childhoods, but for some reason, his really stuck with me. I’ve read most of what he’s written since — Dry, Magical Thinking, Side Effects, and now, Lust & Wonder. None of them have really measured up to Running With Scissors for me, but Lust & Wonder comes the closest. “I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you […]



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