Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Back for the Bingo!

The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells

The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

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“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read.” (CBR11 Bingo)

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

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I don’t know if I knew what to expect when I decided to read The Bone People. I knew it had won the Booker Prize, which isn’t always a great indicator if I’m going to enjoy a book or not, and that it was an Own Voices book by a New Zealand author. Keri Hulme spent over a decade crafting a story of people of Maori heritage in the part of the country she still lives in, and she was steadfast in writing the novel […]

I kind of don’t care that terrible people made problems for themselves (Pajiba)

Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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I love Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and her non-fiction is so amazing that when I saw she had written a book I almost didn’t care what it was about, into the amazon cart it went, and it just happened to be a bonus that when I looked at the books eligible for the Pajiba category for bingo, it was on the front page of results. And then I read the cover blurbs. “Just the sort of thing that Philip Roth or John Updike might have produced in […]

No, they weren’t all prostitutes

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

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The popular narrative is that Jack the Ripper stalked and murdered five prostitutes in Victorian London. The story has always been about him and his mystery, a sensationalized true crime tale meant to scandalize and, at the time, act as a bit of a warning – be a good girl, and he won’t come for you. With The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Hallie Rubenhold seeks to rectify this by removing him from the story almost entirely. Instead, she […]

HALF CANNONBALL!

Patterns of Fashions 2: Englishwomen's Dresses & Their Construction, 1860 - 1940 by Janet Arnold

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My boss travels a lot, which means I get amazing gifts from far away places upon his return. This year he did a study-abroad to our sister-campus over in England, and I got this amazing illustrated tutorial, Patterns of Fashion 2: 1860 – 1940, from his trip to the Fashion Museum of Bath. I got quite a laugh out of his tale of buying the book. He knew that I love to make historical clothing (there are several photos on my desk of me in […]

Hurricanes Can Be Inside, Just as Much as Outside

Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby

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I always have a little trepidation reviewing a book written by someone I know in a professional capacity, so as much as I’ve been excited to read Hurricane Season since finding out it was being published last year, I was also really worried about giving it an honest review. But not only can I say that I enjoyed it, but it was so good it made me cry the good tears and I want to ship a copy to literally every person I know.  I’m […]



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