Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

No brain! Keep walking.

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen

Maneaters Vol 1 by Chelsea Cain

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini

Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

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So let me explain this post first: sometimes I go to a bunch of libraries all in one day. Yesterday I went to four different libraries across two different divisions, a county and a city. And the goal of all this is to find a handful of audiobooks (books on cd) to rip onto my computer. I do this for two reasons: audiobooks make up about half of the books I read because I have a 30 minute commute each day plus I show up […]

“It’s Wrong What They Say About the Past, I’ve Learned, About How you Can Bury it. Because the Past Claws its Way Out.”

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My friend and I were talking about books recently, and she said something about how a lot of the things I had been reading lately sounded very depressing. And I sometimes ask myself why I would want to read something about someone’s pain and hurt, which is a question that I can’t always answer, but it often boils down to the fact that the subjects surrounding this pain is usually one of importance, or perhaps despite all the sorrow there is also a piece of […]

For you a thousand times over.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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I want to write a review that is unwieldy with munificence, so great is my love of this novel. I’m almost 70 books into my year, and am already going to call The Kite Runner the best thing I’ll read in 2016. Set mostly in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion, this book follows the maturation of a Pashtun kid named Amir and his best friend Hassan, a Hazara boy. Amir’s mother died in childbirth, so he was raised by his father, who he affectionately calls […]

The story of modern Afghanistan

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Twenty-eighth book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. I had once asked Tame SheWolf why she doesn’t like to read Khaled Hosseini and she had said that it had caused her too much pain when she read The Kite Runner. So much, in fact, that she decided never to read Khaled Hosseini again. I was profoundly affected by The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini even became one of my favorite authors. And though it left me sad, it didn’t destroy me. It told me the story of life affected by […]



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