Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Trying to Take a Historical Lens to Family Didn’t Work This TIme

The Yellow House by Sarah Broom

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on August 13, 2019.  Well cutting to the chase I really didn’t like this one. I was all ready to fall in love with a nonfiction story where the author talks about her family living in New Orleans East. A place that I have never heard about. Instead the big jumps around a lot and Broom at times talks about her family as […]

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 […]

Tan Rocks!

Naturally Tan by Tan France

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So I have to admit something. Out of all of the Queer Eye guys, I love Tan the best. I just love his accent, his hair, and his delight he gets in clothes and helping others look their best and be comfortable with their bodies. I always hated clothes shopping with my mother because she loved to just plop me in anything that was pink with ruffles. I was her only girl and I got it, but good grief when I see pictures of me […]

Keep A Diary

Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall by Elizabeth Drew

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Read as part of CBR11 bingo: History Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal is making me wish I had kept a diary about the Trump era to document these last few years. I often talk about how the Trump Era is the “lol nothing matters” times of nihilism and obstinance. Seems like a lot of that was going on in 1973-1974. Drew covers the last year of Nixon’s presidency from the perspective of an insider journalist living in the hermetically sealed bubble of Washington, DC. She did a great […]

Take note

Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine

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CBR11bingo The Collection This collection of essays by Emilie Pine was just released in the US but came out to much acclaim in Ireland last year. Pine, who is Associate Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin, has written six essays that relate to deeply personal issues for her, but which will resonate with women everywhere. In her author’s note, she writes that these essays began with a family crisis. Once the crisis passed,  …I discovered that I was still lost, still trying to […]

True Story that is reminiscent of Handmaid’s Tale

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler

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Cbr11bingo True Story This book was recommended to me by a friend who was adopted and it is an amazing and powerful book. It’s the kind of book that breaks your heart and makes you angry. When we talk of “choice” and women, we generally think of the choice to have an abortion, but this book reveals a different kind of choice that was denied to countless young women and girls in the decades between WWII and Roe v. Wade — the choice to keep […]



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