Hi guys! So I took a big chunk of the summer off from my Cannonball for a variety of reasons, most prominently the giant time suck that is buying a house. But I’m back, and thankful my first review in almost two months is for a book I truly enjoyed. This is Where I Leave You is a book many people have heard of in recent months due to the movie that came out last week based on the book (staring my girlfriend Tiny Fey […]
Slapstick and Family Hijinks at a Shiva
I noticed one complaint about this novel on Goodreads was the fact that it seemed like reading a novel that was meant to be a movie. Unfortunately I can’t speak to that; given that it has already been optioned as a movie, I couldn’t help but see Jason Bateman as the narrator, Judd, and could of course picture how various scenes would play out in the film. However, I don’t know if I would have had those same views if I had read this before […]
Enough with the humor. Just tell me the story.
For the past 5 of 6 months, I’ve been juggling two different book clubs. The first one, the one I’ve been in for years, was starting to get on my nerves. Not the people so much as the book choices. They just weren’t for me. I’m not a Twilight Mom and I’m not an Oprah addict, so there wasn’t much there for me. And I found myself a second, more “me” club. But even if I didn’t read the chosen books for the original club, […]