Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

B*tch better have my money

Happy Go Money by Melissa Leong

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I won this book at a brunch that I was dragged to by a friend and, quite frankly, was a bit petulant about attending in the first place (first thing on a Sunday morning I just wanted breakfast and gossip, not a lecture on my poor spending habits).  Out of these inauspicious beginnings, I was pleasantly surprised and had to begrudgingly backtrack on my bad attitude- the brunch, and this book, were both great. If Leong looks or sounds at all familiar, you might be […]

…And We’ll all Float on, Alright

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I like Thomas Pynchon – which is to say, I like the idea of Thomas Pynchon, more than the actual execution. My first experience of reading Pynchon was at university, as a first year English lit student. I’d never heard of Pynchon before and The Crying of Lot 49 was required reading for a course on 20th century American literature. It seemed easy enough; it only has 149 pages. What a deception that was. Still, I returned to class the next week, exhilarated if only […]

Well Worth the Paper It’s Written On

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What happens when you decide not to pay off those Jimmy Choos you bought on your Chase credit card? Chase will attempt to recover the money owed; but maybe you lost your job, or have other bills to pay, or are in prison. Who knows? At some point, it becomes more profitable for Chase to sell your debt, rather than try to recoup the money themselves. One of the amazing things about this process is that the debt, YOUR debt, is sold as a line […]



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