Cannonball Read 18

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About allisonata

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Avid reader and writer in Northern California. Interests range from history to YA to NY Times best-sellers to graphic novels. Trying to decolonize my bookshelf and make sure women get at least equal time.

allisonata's Reviews:

Her Bloody Heart Tumbled Into My Lap

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

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Some books are so unremittingly personal that I am driven to distraction. This collection of achingly intimate essays—not quite chronological, in broken narrative, shifting between past and present tense—are addressed to “you” (me?!), which unnerved my inner WASP. TMI, dear author! Put a tourniquet on this open vein, you’re going to die and stain the carpet. Things are intense from page FOUR: The ugly truth is that I lost my son Isadore in court. The Hague Convention. The ugly of that truth is that I […]

In Rural Idaho, No One Can Hear You Scream

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

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In the category Genres I Like to Read, memoir and horror tie for dead last. (Elizabeth Gilbert is a shameless exhibitionist. Fight me.) However, when a book makes all the “Best of the Year” lists, I feel obligated to give it the old Amazon 1-Click. In the mountains of Idaho, Tara is the last child of a devout Mormon couple—so devout that their youngest children have no birth certificates, have never been to school, and do not go to the doctor, not even for grievous […]



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