Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Not that much to talk about

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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[Read as an audiobook from the public library] I don’t know what I was expecting in this book, but whatever it was, I didn’t get it. This book left me cold, more than anything. I don’t think it was supposed to – I was probably supposed to be shocked. But I was just left with a feeling of, “Huh. Okay. Well then.” Very unlike my recent reaction to, of all things, And Then There Were None, an 80 year old book that I’d never read […]

This is your brain on music

Musicophilia, Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

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CBR12 BINGO: Music BINGO: Red, How-To, UnCannon, Roaring 20s, Music A 42-year old orthopedic surgeon is hit by lightning and suddenly develops an insatiable passion for piano music. An elderly man with semantic amnesia bursts into song at the slightest provocation. An elderly woman has lived her life unable to “hear” music, which manifests itself to her mind as an intolerable cacophony. These are just a handful of the real individuals we meet in Musicopophilia, Oliver Sacks’s exploration of the interactions between music and the […]

Just lovely

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

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CBR12 Bingo: Cannonballer Says Man, am I thankful I read and took to heart ardaigle’s glowing review of this book. I had this checked out from my library before I even finished reading the review. And I really loved it. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is kind of hard to summarize. It’s about Lori Gottlieb’s career path that led her to becoming a psychologist. It’s about her own experiences being in therapy when she was going through a personal crisis. It’s about some of […]

On racial, ethnic, and cultural identity development

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.

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First, I am white. It is important to mention that so that I can also identify all the privilege that I brought with me to reading this book. In the twentieth anniversary edition of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Tatum starts with a 72 page prologue detailing all the ways that race, racial identity development, and race relations have played a part in modern history since the original writing of the book. It is extensively research and meticulously organized. […]

No is a complete sentence

The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker

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I spend far too much time on Reddit threads about real life creepy encounters, which is how I learned about this book. Written by an apparent security expert, De Becker takes a look at the various ways in which we discount our intuition and how paying attention to it instead could save your life. While in some ways this book is kind of workday, and the advice can sometimes seem a little common sense, it’s also the kind of book I wish I’d read when […]

Lisa Naffziger, I say this with love and respect, you are one disturbed lady! I like you! 

Minus by Lisa Naffziger

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Minus is a graphic novel that is constructed well but one very messed-up story! Whatever your biases are will directly color and create your opinion of it. Beck is a young girl who has convinced her overprotective father to let her go to college. She has been homeschooled her whole life and she is only seventeen, but knows she needs to do this. Even if she knows there are rules that will have to be strictly followed. On her way there a pit stop at […]



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