Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A pleasant but rambling (and jarring) journey

Where the Dear and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

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Nick Offerman’s fifth book, Where the Dear and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American who Loves to Walk Outside is as unnecessarily wordy and rambling as its title. Arranged as a collection of three separate journeys, Where the Dear recounts actor/writer/humorist Nick Offerman’s hiking trip in Montana with Wilco musician Jeff Tweedy and writer George Saunders, his repeated visits to the farm home of James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd’s Life, outside of Liverpool, and finally a cross country ramble to […]

Equal Parts Delight and Cringe

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

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BINGO: Landscape Best for: People who like humorous essays and who don’t mind a lot of cursing and blue humor. Not for people looking for a lot of Parks and Recreation content. In a nutshell: Actor Nick Offerman shares his thoughts on this book that is part memoir, part philosophical treatise. Worth quoting: I spent a lot of time noting things said in the book that frustrated me, but I didn’t actually type out any quotes that stuck with me. Why I chose it: I […]

I wish I liked this more

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

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Bingo Square: No Money! (I got this from the tiny free library nearby) This is a memoir come advice book I guess. It covers most of Offerman’s life from birth to early career, Parks and Rec success, and meeting his wife, Megan Mullally. Interspersed throughout are humorous takes on how to be a man, discussions on religion, woodworking, and so on. I guess what you’d expect from a book by Nick Offerman. I had really enjoyed the book he wrote with his wife, The Greatest […]

Funny Famous People (CBR11Bingo: Birthday)

Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Bossypants by Tina Fey

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Funny celebrity memoirs — definitely one of my favorite categories. I might be stretching the definition of “celebrity” with Harrison Scott Key, but his was my favorite so I’m grouping it in here. Also, god bless Amy Poehler — her birthday is September 16th and she’s my Birthday square! (five stars) Congratulations, Who Are You Again? by Harrison Scott Key Harrison Scott Key wrote this great book I read earlier this year — The World’s Largest Man. It won a lot of prizes. It also […]

Ron and Tammy Two

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman

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Like most red blooded Americans I am a huge fan of Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally both as individual actors and as a couple. The duo are best known for their respective portrayals of Ron Swanson & Karen Walker but throughout the years they’ve become synonymous with #CoupleGoals and for good reason. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told is an oral history of their lives together and is probably best enjoyed in the audio-book format. I actually don’t know how this would work on paper, I’m […]

“When we can be introverts together”

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman

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Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman have been together for 18 years. They’ve become a beloved ‘showbiz couple’, partly due to their down-to-earth-ness and their love of puzzles. So how do they do it? How have they kept love and passion alive all these years, especially given the crazy nature of their day jobs? The book is told mostly through conversations between the two, which can be a little hard to get used to in the beginning (and it wasn’t what I expected cos hey, I […]



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