Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I can remember how grown-up I felt then, and earlier, since about nine. Because we age one way, in one direction, every age we are is the most grown-up we’ve ever been.”

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe

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Sara Pascoe is here for you. There is no stone she won’t turn over and no story she won’t tell, because she is going to use her embarrassments, misunderstandings, failures, and larks to help you learn. If you are looking for a medical textbook on what it means to be a human woman then go ahead and look elsewhere. If you want a smart and unflinching comedian to share her life story with you while looking back through biology, history, and cultural norms in order […]

An Instant Classic

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

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This. Book. Is. So. Good. Seriously. Go get your hands on it right now. The Book of Longings is the fictional story of Jesus’s (Yes, that Jesus) feminist wife, Ana. Author Sue Monk Kidd wove a narrative that is unbelievably immersive and reverential to the life and times of Jesus Christ. By focusing on the humanity of Jesus and the strength of the women around him, The Book of Longings breathes new life into an age-old story. At a time when women were considered the […]

Read How to Build a Girl Instead

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

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Caitlin Moran is a British culture writer/arts reporter/ feminist thinker, and How To Be A Woman is her 2011 memoir/ collection of feminist essays that had been sitting on my shelf for far too long.  How To Be a Woman is structured as both a chronological progression of Moran’s life events and a feminist opinion tied to that event (ie: the first chapter is “I Start Bleeding”, which is both an account of her first period, as well as a discussion on masturbation, women and […]

This series is good, feminist fun, but this book was a little overstuffed.

Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2) by Lyssa Kay Adams

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This series is fun, but I think this one may have bitten off a little too much. I wasn’t completely sold on the chemistry between the leads, even though the rest of the book was pretty good. Also, the Russian didn’t get a name until the end of the book, but at least he has a name now. It was feeling weird to make a whole person a joke. I’m not sure she can ever make him a POV character with all the jokes about […]

I missed the Lumberjanes

Lumberjanes Volume 10 Parents' Day by Leyh , Kat

Lumberjanes Volume 11 Time After Crime by Leyh, Kat

Lumberjanes Volume 12 Jackalope Springs Eternal by Leyh, Kat

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Lumberjanes is the story of five young women at a strange and magical summer camp. April is ambitious, tiny, and ridiculously strong. Riley is the youngest, and sometimes a bit over-enthusiastic. Jo is a level-headed science genius and transgender. Mal is a queer guitar player from a happy home. Molly is queer, from an unhappy home, and has a pet raccoon named Bubbles who she wears as a hat. Together they are the Roanoke bunk at Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore […]

eating vegetables: the essay collection

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

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Now here me out: there are lots of reasons to eat vegetables. Sometimes your body is in revolt because you’ve had nothing but pizza all weekend. Sometimes you’ve made a new commitment to “take better care” of yourself. Sometimes you just really want some kale, damn it. Sometimes you just want to smother some broccoli in neon-orange-movie-theater-nacho cheese. Vegetables are good for you, vegetables are tasty, they can be prohibitively expensive- especially if fresh, but sometimes you just have to fight your way through a […]



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