Here we are – my first Cannonball Read ever! I’m super excited, and also terrified, but this new year is already starting to look insane, so what the heck, I’m jumping in with both feet. Bad Feminist is a series of essays focused on gender, sexuality and race. Roxanne Gay writes about the feminist movement and its flaws, but she focuses more on sexism and racism in books, movies, music, language and politics. One of my biggest struggles with sexism and racism when I crash […]
Fifty Shades of Blisters
I suspect the usual audience for a run memoir is runners, of the current or former variety. Running can be dreary enough without actually reading about it. (Dancing about architecture, anyone?) So, right off the bat, Tom Foreman’s My Year of Running Dangerously has a bit of an uphill battle with a significant portion of the reading public. Foreman makes a respectable effort at chronicling the descent into madness that is running.
The perfect book for dorks like me
I’m the weirdo who always thinks about the details of historical living. How exactly did they come up with indoor plumbing and how in the world did they create such a complex system to accommodate everyone’s plumbing needs? How was the infrastructure built to so many houses? Same with electricity. How in the world did they get everything set up so cities were connected to power? These are the dorky things I think about when I read historical books. So when I heard that there […]
The saddest book you could ever read going into the Trump administration.
Brooke Hauser follows the goings-on at International High School at Prospect Heights for a school year. International High School accepts recent immigrants with or without documentation. Their admissions requirements are that they must be recent immigrants (I want to say within a year?) and they have to take an English test and fail. It roughly follows about 10-20 students of varying nationalities and a few teachers. The year she follows is at the very beginning of the Obama administration and it’s truly heartbreaking to juxtapose […]
I don’t know what to title this but the book was really good.
Mara Wilson’s debut memoir is a collection of well-written personal essays and I really enjoyed listening to it, but I didn’t love love love it. Some of the essays were incredibly moving and interesting to me, but others had that problem that I have with a lot of memoirs and collections of personal essays where it seems like it was included to fill space. I just find myself reacting like, okay I guess that was pretty good, but why did it need to be written? […]
“Get that parasol out of your mouth, dear, you’re going to need it…”
Jenny Lawson, our beloved Bloggess, mentioned this book. It sounded really awesome, so I had to check it out. It’s a look at what life was like for a woman back in Victorian times. It has quotes from medical journals and books of the time, as well as illustrations, all with hilarious commentary. Basically, it was a dirty, dirty time, and having a uterus made you crazy sick, or just crazy, unless you filled it with your husband’s babies. There are chapters on grooming, diet, […]
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