Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

It’s okay to be the teacup with a chip in it.

The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

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CBR BINGO: Self Care Square I’m not a big reader of “self help” books. Not to say that I couldn’t benefit from one. I’m Gen X and I think we tend to lean a little hard on self reliance with a dash of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality. That isn’t necessarily healthy, so I thought I would try to tackle this square and broader my horizons a little bit. (Reason #5,674 on my why I love CBR Bingo list) I loved The Midnight Library and […]

I Need My Blood Pressure Meds

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

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In Oklahoma during the1920s, oil was pouring out from the ground and the Osage were being killed. Especially the wealthy ones.  The book follows events of how the Osage tribe were driven out of their homes, settled in Oklahoma, and became the richest tribe.  Then it moves on to how many of them were systematically, yes, systematically, killed for their oil wealth.  Then the ensuing investigation and how it tied to the founding of the FBI by J. Edgar Hoover. The book primarily focuses on […]

Janet Murray predicted Netflix

Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet Murray

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Digital Media books tend to feel outdated while they are still written. Meaning that by the time the book comes out, the technology that they talk about is already obsolete. There is also the tendency for many of those writers, to see technology and digital media (like video games) as abstract rational systems and try to separate those artifacts from “emotions” and in so separating them from narrative and personal expression.  I am happy to note that, Hamlet on the Holodeck, manages to feel still […]

Sympathy for the Devil.

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“Nonetheless, he found it possible to look at the man beside him without anger—with, rather, a measure of sympathy—for Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of roses but pitiful, an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage and then another.” – – – I remember being gobsmacked by this book when I read it for the first time six years ago, and now upon re-read, I find it’s just as good. In fact, it’s one of those books where the satisfaction comes not from […]



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