Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hell, they ain’t even old timey! (CBR12Bingo: The Roaring 20s)

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

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So, I may have fudged the numbers slightly; Winesburg, Ohio technically was published in 1919. That said, eras are funny things – you think of the disco era as the 1970s, but it pushed well into the 80s; you look at the 1990s and forget that the grunge era sidled right up to bubblegum pop with only a couple years in between, I refuse to think of the 2000-2010 era as a discrete entity and everything from about 2005 to present feels like “near past.” […]

Not academic, but that’s also not really the point

The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy by Helen Russell

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If you happened to read the Little Book of Hygge that was everywhere a few years ago, this is a similarly styled (and similarly lightweight) ‘how to be happy’ guide- down to the similar pictures and easy-read formatting. Russell, who is a British journalist now living in Denmark, takes ideas and ideals of happiness from a variety of cultures, describes them over a short chapter, and then gives a ‘how to’ list at the end that gives ideas for incorporating.  While I appreciated the sentiment […]

From the depths of hell, I stab at thee! (CBR12Bingo: White Whale)

The Second City: Backstage at the world's greatest comedy theater by Sheldon Patinkin

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I have owned this book for twenty years. I remember getting it when it came out. I am a comedy nerd. My parents love The Second City. This book should have been a homerun for me. It absolutely was not. There is a reason this book took me twenty years to read. It felt like it took twenty years once I started.  And, incidentally, I started it about four times and every time put it the hell back down because I couldn’t make myself want […]

cbr12bingo – Yellow (and the close of a ten-part series)

Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison

Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? by Louise Rennison

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Well friends, we have come to the end of my re-adventures with the misadventures of Miss Georgia Nicolson! I thought, incorrectly of course, that it would be a fight to finish this series. I bought it during an “online shopping under the influence” session, and I thought that it would be a bit of a laugh down memory lane- but one that ended far short of the destination. When the ten-book set bounced onto my porch one morning, my first thought was “what have I […]

Gloriously Deranged Insanity

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Sorry, but it’s nigh on impossible to discuss this book without mentioning the endgame from Gideon The Ninth. You probably shouldn’t be picking up this book anyhow if you haven’t read Gideon. And if you have read Gideon, perhaps give it a bit of a re-read before embarking on Harrow The Ninth. You will thank me later. This book enjoys being tricky Man, this was one of my most anticipated books of the summer. After the wild ride that was Gideon The Ninth, I was […]

“I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life. I don’t regret it’*

N0S4A2 by Joe Hill

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Bingo Square: Adaptation As a child Vic McQueen finds a shortcut to lost things through the Shorter Way Bridge. On her bicycle, she can zip through one side to wherever a missing thing is on the other. Her mother’s bracelet. A special toy. One day she meets a girl who mentions a man Vic should avoid at all costs. Charles Manx likes to take children to Christmasland in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith. A place where it is Christmas every day, a playground of everything you […]



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