Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Don’t we all want that?

Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Ralphael Bob-Waksberg

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I love Bojack Horseman. It’s one of the best TV-series ever, it starts out good, it only gets better as the show progresses and it culminates in an amazing finale. It’s also one of the few shows where I looked up who wrote it. I know, I should do that more often because every time I’ve done it, I’ve come across great new material to watch or read. In the case of the Bojack Horseman writers though, I mainly wanted to see if they’re ok, […]

“There’s a particular feeling in your body when something goes right after a long time of things going wrong. It feels warm and sweet and loose.”

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

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Lily King is a magician. She takes an unassuming title like Writers and Lovers and crafts something beautiful, messy, and utterly captivating. Her last novel, 2014’s Euphoria, was my favorite read of the last decade- I have to admit that I was initially disappointed when Writers and Lovers was announced after the evocative fever of Euphoria.  A 30-something woman navigates creative struggle, debt, grief, and relationships? All I have to do is shout out of my front door and a line of people that fit the description […]

“I am a museum of art but you had your eyes shut”

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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Official book description: milk and honey is a collection of poetry about love loss trauma abuse healing and femininity it is split into four chapters each chapter serves a different purpose deals with a different pain heals a different heartache milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in the life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look Poetry is just one of those genres I don’t really read, at […]

Writing from the middle…

It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered by Lysa TerKeurst

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One of my hesitations with books in the genre of “Read this when your life is falling apart; I was in the same place, and this is how everything miraculously got better”, is that I find them to be discouraging while you’re actually in the middle of a life crisis of your own. I don’t want to hear about the lessons you learned when life turned around, because what if my story doesn’t end that way. If there’s no end to the pain that I’m […]



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