Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

They’re All Good Dogs

Dogs on the Trail: A Year In The Life by Blair Braverman and Quince Mountain

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As someone who was deeply traumatized by the movie Eight Below, (and before that Where the Red Fern Grows) I approach any media that features dogs with suspicion.  So let me assure you: all the dogs in this come out the other side okay. I picked this book up because I have quite enjoyed Blair Braverman’s appearances on the You’re Wrong About podcast, and I knew she had written books (I read her fiction debut [Small Game] a few years ago), but I had forgotten […]

a wilderness suspense novel with an aching heart

Small Game by Blair Braverman

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I’ve usually got so much to read that I don’t really bother with NetGalley in an effort to get my hands on ARCs. Better that they go to people who do have time to read them, and may also actually review them. But I’ve been following Blair Braverman, writer and dogsledder, on Twitter for years now and have read both her memoir, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, and her Tough Love column for Outside magazine; obviously I have also loved her many Twitter threads about her […]

Sure the dogs are fine but the LAMBS

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Should we go back to Alaska?” I asked Rebekah each spring, on the phone. We’d sit in silence, pondering our excuses, before deciding that this was not the year. Maybe next year. Maybe the year after that. But soon Rebekah was married,  pregnant, settled in a way I could only marvel at from a distance. She said, “I would never let my daughter do what we did.” Blair Braverman and her parents lived in Norway when Blair was a ten year old girl; she spent her […]

Writing as therapy

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As a teenager, Blair Braverman — who always had an obsession with the North — lived as an exchange student in Norway, where she had a really messed up experience with her host family (namely, the father). So she spent the next 15 years or so trying to work through that by traveling to very, very cold places and putting herself in difficult and dangerous situations, trying to find some peace. I did really enjoy certain parts of this book. Anything involving her work with sled […]



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