Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The title of the book tells you everything you need with this one. (CBR12 Bingo)

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

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I laughed out loud when I saw the How To square on this year’s bingo card – days before a friend had given me Randall Munroe’s latest  How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems when I had lamented my inability lately to sink into reading anything. Her answer to that problem (and it is a good answer) was something intended to be read in small pieces and not all at once, and something that is both humorous and full of interesting information. Checks […]

On November 16, 2018, I officially ended my bid to become the next governor of Georgia.

Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams

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CBR12 Bingo – How To So obviously Stacey Abrams got robbed. She mentions this pretty early on, and if you’re unaware, the idea that her opponent in the race for governor was also the presiding election official, in a state that is gerrymandered to hell, and suppresses the crap out of the Black vote is beyond satire in its ridiculousness. The additional fact the Kemp has allowed so many people to die from Covid through corruption and ineptitude (he’s clearly an almost travesty of a […]

Major Insights: People on the Internet Are Racist, Like Porn, and Lie on Social Media

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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CBR12 BINGO: How-To I work in Marketing, and these days it’s all about data. How are you going to measure it? What does success look like? These are the mundane questions I have to answer every day, so reading this book was a bit like work. But, it fits a BINGO square, so I benefitted in the end. Also, enough interesting nuggets are included to make it mildly interesting. The main takeaway is that asking people to complete surveys is pretty pointless, because people lie […]

The Most Comprehensive Writing Guide

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway

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  Teaching writing has introduced me to so many resources that would have been beyond helpful when I was bumbling around as a stupid twenty-something trying to figure out how to write. I guess it’s better late than never. My mentor introduced me to Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction, last semester, and good God, if only I had had this book ten years ago…. Broken down into comprehensive chapters on everything from point-of-view, setting, characterization, and revising, Burroway takes a no-holds barred approach to guiding young writers […]

I’m Dreading This But I Need To Do It

Nuts & Bolts of Self-Publishing: How to Self-Publish Ebooks and Paperbacks by Chris Longmuir

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Best for: People interested in self-publishing a book. In a nutshell: Author Chris Longmuir shares their experience in self-publishing while providing seriously detailed instructions to prospective self-publishers. Worth quoting: (Mostly because it’s a fun bit of trivia) “Project Gutenberg was launched in 1971. This was the year they digitized the United States Declaration of Independence, making it the first ebook in the world.” Why I chose it: I want to get my book out there. Review: A couple of weeks ago I was texting with […]

The pictures were good

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I’ve been camping and backpacking a lot lately. I like the gear, the challenge, the beauty, and getting away from it all. But there’s always some new horizon to explore or a new trial to endure. Once I’ve tried something, I always find myself looking for something just a little bit  harder. For me, that was winter camping. Summer camping is delightful. The temperature is generally comfortable. You have sunshine and light until almost nine o’clock at night–giving you tons of time to hike and […]



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