Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I started out in a green house with a red door in a small town, where mysteries abounded.”

Born With Teeth by Kate Mulgrew

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Voyager is my favorite Star Trek series so I was interested to read this book and learn more about Kate Mulgrew’s life. She is a very lyrical writer with a great eye for detail — having read other celebrity memoirs before, you can tell when one is ghostwritten and this one read as if it was purely her own effort. She has a strong voice and is able to really capture a scene and the elements that make it powerful. Her writing elevates this beyond […]

“I developed a constitution that could only ever be described as able and hardy.”

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My husband & I finally started Orange is the New Black a few weeks ago (this is how I read so many freaking books, people — I’m five years behind on must see TV). Kate Mulgrew’s portrayal of Red quickly became one of my favorite performances. She’s tough, she’s smart, and she’s a person. I’m constantly impressed with her. I was so happy to see Mulgrew’s autobiography well-reviewed on this site. While it doesn’t touch on her time as Red (it ends with her role as Capt. […]

For me, this book was just okay, which isn’t okay!!!

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I don’t know, guys, this book just wasn’t for me. I don’t understand why the universe is doing this to me! It’s getting such good reviews, like glowing reviews, and really the sum total of my feelings can be described with a single syllable. (It’s “meh,” if you’re curious.) And it had such promise! Who doesn’t want to read about a mysterious fungus that makes people develop pretty black designs on their bodies that look like dragon scales, and then burst into flames? And a […]

“It’s hard to know what’s in a person’s heart when she never says good-bye.”

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I don’t know that I would have ever picked up Kate Mulgrew’s poignant and beautifully written memoir if it hadn’t been for narfna’s lovely review from late last year. Sure, I had put it on my 500 book deep to read list over on Goodreads (side note: I may have an electronic hoarding problem – send help!), but it like many other “oh that looks interesting” books would have slipped past my immediate attention. You see, I didn’t know who Captain Janeway was. My only […]

Janeway can WRITE.

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“But the fact is,” I continued, “that despite their sadness, and despite my guilt, and despite Egan’s anger, I went ahead and did what I needed to do for myself. In the end, it’s selfish.”  “I think you’re wrong there. It feels selfish at the time, because the pain is excruciating, but there is no nobility in hanging on to something that is miserable and false. We have to fight for our happiness in life.” I knew I wanted to read this book as soon […]



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