Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Well Written But Not For Me

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

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Best for: Those who enjoy well-written memoirs that involve a religious upbringing. In a nutshell: Author Lockwood was raised by her father, a Catholic priest. Unusual, no? Worth quoting: “I know all women are supposed to be strong enough now to strangle presidents and patriarchies between their powerful thighs, but it doesn’t work that way. Many of us were actually affected, by male systems and male anger, in ways we cannot always articulate or overcome.” Why I chose it: This was recommended to me at […]

It Me

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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Like anyone interested in books and not living under a rock, I heard many great things about this book last year. And so it was with great excitement that I picked this book up from the library as it finally became available. It rose to the top of my TBR pile just as school was resuming, so this book was my constant companion as we endured the first week back after break and the “will we? won’t we?” as we endure year 3 of teaching […]

A tale of two stories

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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I went into this book mostly blind; I had read Lockwood’s memoir Priestdaddy last year and absolutely loved it, so I picked up this book, her first novel, without hesitating. All I knew was that the focus of the book changes a bit halfway through. I’m glad I didn’t know more than that before I started it, because the first half was not really my jam, even if I can appreciate that it is well-written. (Like scootsa1000, I had trouble sticking with the book, until finally […]

“There is still a real life to be lived, there are still real things to be done.”

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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I knew nothing about this book when I bought it. I saw it on a list of new releases, thought the cover looked kind of cool, and added it to my cart from my local book store. I had never heard of Patricia Lockwood, had no idea what kind of writer she was (SPOILER ALERT: I STILL DON’T REALLY KNOW), and didn’t know anything about the plot. I started it, struggled hard with the format and writing style, and put it down. The streaming train […]

No One is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood (2021)

No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood

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I really loved this book. It keeps getting called a book about “being extremely online” and while that’s kind of true, it obscures what the book is really doing (in the first half, leading to the second half). The book is not “about” being extremely online, but is narrating the experience of being essentially addicted to being online. Well, no. It’s about trying to narrate the experience of having your brain having been rewritten by internet communication to the point at which, while you’re incredibly […]

20: Priestdaddy

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My sister recommended Patricia Lockwood’s memoir Priestdaddy to me, and since she rarely recommends a book on both phone and Goodreads, I thought it would be worth the read. She said that Lockwood’s description of religious practice and extremism, combined with faith versus doubt, would really resonate with me. She was absolutely right. I’ve talked before about growing up and currently practicing the Seventh-day Adventist faith, so I won’t rehash that discussion. I’ll just add that there are more extremist pockets of fringe religion that […]



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