Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Stunning photo project or exploitation?

The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein

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The premise of The Oxford Project is simple, and I suspect it’s one that you’ll either get or really not get. In 1984, Peter Feldstein photographed every resident of Oxford, Iowa (I can’t recall if he ended up photographing every single resident, but if not it was extremely close). The photographs are simple and stark, with people rarely posing but just standing frankly in front of the camera. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a bicycle, a baby, a gun, a lion. In 2004, he went back to photograph them all again. This time he took Stephen G. Bloom and got brief […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

It’s a pleasure to sit at this old lady’s knee.

Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

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It’s been years since I read the first Call the Midwife book, and I only vaguely remember it. When this finally made its way to the top of my Goodreads list, I was a little concerned that the gap would be a problem. Fortunately, Shadows of the Workhouse more or less functions as a standalone book. Knowing the basic workings of Nonnatus House is useful, but hardly required. Whereas Call the Midwife was a pretty straightforward memoir of Jennifer Worth’s time as a midwife working among nuns dedicated to providing obstetric care to poor women in postwar London, Shadows of […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

I stand corrected af.

Cravings by Chrissy Teigen

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Chrissy Teigen really is an absolute gift to the world, isn’t she? I’m really late to the party on that one. At some point I realized that I always click posts about her on any blog I follow despite having no special interest in her career or her husband John Legend’s. She just gradually floated into my consciousness as a delightful Twitter personality, but…I’m not even on Twitter. It was a weird situation. So when I saw Cravings here and there, well-reviewed, I figured why not. But I had very low expectations. I have an extreme disinterest in celebrity memoirs […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

I guess I forgot I had a choice, let you push me past the breaking point.

Troublemaker by Leah Remini

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My goodness what a book. I’m surprised that I finished Troublemaker, which isn’t to say it’s not a good book. My level of disinterest in celebrity memoirs is hard to even convey with words, but I knew absolutely nothing about Scientology. Pajiba covers Scientology drama with some regularity, and I make it my business to have at least a passing understanding of most of Pajiba’ content. Also, I only ever watched like to episodes of King of Queens, but for some reason Leah Remini really stood out to me, so I figured Troublemaker might be an okay primer. And, well…yes […]

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6/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

It wore out its “welcome” almost immediately.

The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks by Bethany Keeley

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Ugh. There truly are not 250 words to say about this book. It came out in 2010, when these blog/website collections of things like passive aggressive notes or angry looking zoo animals or whatever were everywhere, and they kept getting book deals. I went through a period when I thought they were hilarious. I added a few to my Goodreads to-read list. I have a system for randomizing my next book, and when I come across one of these old “should’ve just been a website” books, I usually just remove them. (I’m not the only one whose TBR list goes […]

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6/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

Are there any Liane Moriarty holdouts here?

The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

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I know that CBR participants are pretty fond of Liane Moriarty in general, but is anyone here still not sure if she’s for them? Let me help you. Do you like… Books with an ensemble cast where each character is more nuanced and developed than most books with a single protagonist? Books with multiple subplots, all absolutely engrossing, that are tied up so satisfyingly at the end, one by one, that it’s like popping bubble wrap, but are almost never too tidy? Adorable Australian lingo? Perfectly executed plot twists? Books where the foreshadowing is sometimes legit and sometimes a total […]

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5/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Reading the reviews sums up the experience.

Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason

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I think that I was really in the wrong mental place to read this book. I picked it up to help me figure out how to cope with a relative that I suspect might have borderline personality disorder. I started it while she was in a snit not talking to me because I’d taken a few hours to answer a text message. I thought, “I’ll read this book and figure out some coping strategies and be ready to deal with this anew when she starts talking to me again.” That…was not what happened. I found the book to be a […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Rebecca Explains it All (In a Good Way!)

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

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3.5 stars, rounding down because when I think back on it (I finished it a few weeks ago), the things that bugged me stick out more than the things that didn’t. This might’ve been a four star book for me if I’d checked at all on what it actually was. I’d hoped it would be a deeper dive into the title concept, aka “mainsplaining” (although Solnit herself did not coin that term and is not a fan of it). The title essay was fantastic, so I never quite shook the disappointment when I realized it was actually a collection of […]

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4/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

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