Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite current authors

The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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God I love this book! I think I’ve loved everything I’ve read from Taylor Jenkins Reid. I’m in the middle of Malibu Rising, and it has yet to disappoint. Anyway, back to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn Hugo is Old Hollywood royalty, a la Elizabeth Taylor. And she’s plucked a young writer, Monique Grant, out of relative obscurity to write her biography which is sure to sell millions of copies and launch her career to the stratosphere. Monique just has to wait to publish her […]

I know she’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I really like Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I very much liked this novel! Reid has this knack for creating interesting scenarios that don’t involve thrillers or fantasy or anything much beyond the ordinary, and for me she does a great job doing so. This book is written entirely in the form of interviews–sometimes by the author, sometimes in the form of faux clippings from other magazines (or TV shows?) but always engaging. Someone called it out as “all tell, no show” but I disagree. The in-depth interview is a time honored tradition […]

“Just because it is in Malibu’s nature to burn, so was it in one particular person’s nature to set fire and walk away.”

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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TJR did it again. She’s very good at what she does. This book is extremely readable, and I think it might even be my favorite of the three books of hers I’ve read so far. I loved Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones, but this one spoke to me personally in a way those didn’t. Bad dads and dysfunctional families, what are you going to do. Malibu, 1983. The four Riva siblings throw an end of summer party every year that has become infamous. If you […]

This has got to be the most misleading title ever

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Today is June 30th and the end of Pride month. How very fitting that I finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo today. This book is queer as hell, and I had no idea going in. I just knew that I loved Daisy Jones and the Six by Reid, and this book came highly praised by friends and Cannonballers alike. I loved nearly every moment of it. This book is told through two main points of view, that of Evelyn Hugo and that of her biographer Monique Grant. […]

Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I don’t know why it took me two years and a book group to get around to reading Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.  I had read and enjoyed one of her earlier books (Maybe in Another Life), the book got lots of good press when it was released (it was even a Reese Book Club title), and I do like to read about rock and roll and the 70’s. The book is about Daisy Jones, an unloved, rich, gorgeous, talented girl […]

Finally getting around to reading this–it’s not nearly as difficult as I thought!

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CW: drunk driving What is this book not? I think it might be more helpful to frame what I did like that way. It’s not #ownvoices, a few times over–Reid (Jenkins Reid?) is a white, straight author (who, by her own admission, is not always very feminine presenting) writing about biracial, queer characters. I didn’t check midway through, but there were parts–I’m thinking of a passage where Monique was discussing her to her biracial identity, very near the start of the story, that rung a bit…odd, […]



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