Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

More like late fall (summer read) / Cannonball!

The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

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I’m shooting for a double cannonball this go-round, so yay to the halfway point! Only slightly off-target, but there’ll be time to catch up, two trips coming up in the next six weeks. This is also my “Summer Read” square for cannonball bingo, specifically purchased for sunbathing and relaxing, as Liane Moriarty writes the literary equivalent of frappucinos. Frothy, sweet, perfect for the heat, but with a little espresso darkness to give it body and make you feel both fancy and like you’re not having […]

It had been too long since I read this

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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I dug my first copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy out of my Christmas stocking when I was probably twelve years old. My dad had been telling me the story (mostly his favorite part, Restaurant at the End of the Universe’s “Meet Your Meat”) for years but finally gifted me a copy. I was sold on the cover copy alone: “The first in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s trilogy”. I loved it then, I love it now, and I loved it when my high school put […]

Depression, the book (Reading the TBR)

The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno

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I once discussed my frustration and incredulity that Wes Anderson’s movies were considered comedies with a friend (mind you, this was just around the time that The Life Aquatic was released), as I was horrified by the suicide attempt in The Royal Tennenbaums. As she described the plot of The Life Aquatic as a similar “quirky, charming, adorable, EXISTENTIAL HORROR, 70s music b-sides, the end” I started laughing as I could not believe that was a description of a comedy. Basically the only thing funny […]

Chap sees an swan in the cinema. He says “are you a swan?” “Yes” comes the answer. “What are you doing here?” “Well, I liked the book”.

Wild Swans by Xanthe Gresham Knight

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#cbr11bingo #Classic You most likely know at least one version of the classic story of Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen; but the illustrations by Charlotte Gastaut are what make this edition, retold by Xanthe Gresham Knight, fresh. Knight’s version of the story has the young princess, Eliza, sent to live with a family in a village that has not been touched by the plague that took her mother. This is after her father remarries and Stepmother knows that to keep her safe, Eliza must […]

Hard Knock Life in the Holler

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

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I’ve finally caught up with J.D. Vance’s much discussed bestseller, and I’m glad I did.  Vance’s memoir recounts growing up in Ohio and Kentucky, in a family on the lower rungs of the income and class scale.  He spends a lot of time and colour painting his family’s roots back in Kentucky, and then traces his parents’ move to suburban Ohio in search of a better life.  Despite the physical move, Vance writes that his family retains their ‘hillbilly’ values and are still culturally similar […]

Cannonballer Says

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

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Ok, my Cannonball Says entry for Bingo might be kind of a cheat, because… let’s be real, I’m enough of a Rowell fangirl that I was gonna buy this with or without a good review from a cannonballer. That said, choosing this book allows me to highlight how clever scootsa1000’s review title is (let’s talk about Seth, baby) as well as to tip my hat to a cannonballer who might love Rainbow Rowell more than I do. I feel like this might be one of […]



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