Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Really made me crave some butter chicken

Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

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4.5 stars This novella was exactly what I needed in the stressful weeks starting the new year, when I’m massively behind on my work (thanks, ill-timed Christmas illness), still fighting a horrible cough and cold (at this stage, I’m not entirely sure I’m not suffering from a new cold that I caught on the heels of the first one). I have so many mediocre English essays left to grade, with the deadline of the 12th of January (when all the grades for term 1 have […]

This book was fine. That’s about it

Suddenly Last Summer by Sarah Morgan

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Official book description: Fiery French chef Élise Philippe is having a seriously bad day. Not only have the opening day plans for her beloved café fallen apart, but Sean O’Neil is back in town, and looking more delectable than ever. Last summer, they shared an electrifying night together…and the memories have Élise really struggling to stick to her one-night-only rule! Her head knows that eventually Sean will be leaving, so all she can do is try to ignore her heart before she spontaneously combusts with […]

Some Salads Show Up, Some Could Just Stay Home

Show Up for Salad by Terry Hope Romero

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I have attempted a new rule when it comes to cookbooks: I am not allowed to open a new one which I may have recently bought until I finish working my way through, insofar as is possible) the current one. I’m not always good at this personal rule, but recently it seems to have been working. I somehow missed that Salad Samurai had a sequel, Show Up For Salad, so I had to grab it for use as a lunch for the next several months […]

Eat Your Vegetables! Also, Relax!

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

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In the last few years, I slowly gained and somewhat rapidly lost a lot of weight (about 50 pounds). While extra weigh certainly did some damage to me physically, the psychic trauma of worrying about everything I was putting into (or not putting into) my body was the worst part of the whole thing. Food just…wasn’t fun. It became terror. I’m sure you’ve been there. In this book, the author mentions a survey in which the French associated with chocolate cake words like celebration , […]

Pancakes. Jello Shots. “Uptown Funk”.

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

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Swedish Fish. Movie Popcorn. My mom’s fudge that she makes every Christmas (sorry Mom). This is a list of things that I love SO VERY VERY much at first and I simply cannot get enough!!, but then OHHHH GODDDD I’m super sick of it. That’s exactly the list to which I am adding this sweet, charming but hooo-boy overly long book. It was just a little- actually quite a bit- too much and I should’ve quit while I was ahead. I have to say, I […]

How I Learned to Accept my Hangover

A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mark Forsyth

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I don’t know how I found this book, but somehow while freezing on the train platform in Tokyo on New Year’s morning, I located this little gem. I started to read it on my phone, as I stood huddled in a train car trying to not get elbowed by too many hungover locals on their way to see family. I’m told by a coworker that it’s a tradition in Japan. First you get hammered on New Year’s Eve and then travel to see your family […]



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