Cannonball Read 11

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Carriejay

Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have two year old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

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OK, but Y is he called Yorick?*

Y: The Last Man, Vol 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan, Jr

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Bingo Square: Illustrated In July 2002, a worldwide catastrophe happens. All living beings with a Y chromosome simultaneously die. Except for one young man named Yorick Brown, and his Capuchin monkey. In an instant the world has shifted, and women are left picking up the pieces. Some are trying to do so through governing, others, known as the Amazons, are more violent. When the latter discover Yorick’s existence they go after him, wanting to remove all trace of men from existence. His sister, Hero** is one of them. And Yorick? He just wants to find his girlfriend/fiancee Beth, who happens […]

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7/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

“That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story.”

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

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Bingo Square: Own Voices* In Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run the Miracle Submarine, an experimental medical treatment. Its users include Elizabeth and Kitt, both of whom have sons with autism; Teresa and her daughter Rosa, who has cerebral palsy; and Matt, a doctor with infertility. All are hoping for some miracle cure or even an improvement from this treatment. And the Yoos are hoping it changes their lives, in a slightly different way. Having come from Korea without her husband several years before, Young has worked hard to make a life here for her and her daughter, […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

“I couldn’t talk about my happiness without touching the uncomfortable truth that everything I have now is built on everything I lost.”

No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny

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Bingo Square: True Story Nora McInerny knows loss. In the space of a few weeks she lost a pregnancy, her father, and her husband. In the aftermath she wrote a memoir, It’s Okay to Laugh, and started a podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking, both of which were well received and successful. She was suddenly an expert on navigating grief and often called upon to talk about it. But then a crazy thing happened. She fell in love again. And within a few months they were expecting a child together and trying to figure out how to blend their families. McInerny […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

“We know each other to the bone”

One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular by Abigail Pogrebin

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Bingo Square: Not My Wheelhouse (It’s part memoir, part sociology, part parenting guide.) I likely never would have picked this up if I didn’t have identical twins. Now I’m a mother I do read parenting books to give me some idea of what the hell I am doing but I tend not to gravitate to the memoir side of things. I want hard facts: this is how you raise your kid so they’re not a sociopath, and not: this is my story but we’re all different so good luck! But I find myself navigating parenthood while also worrying about my […]

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7/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Who Are You?

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle* by Stuart Turton

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Bingo Square: Reading the TBR In the crumbling country house of Blackheath during a party, Evelyn Hardcastle takes her own life. Except she didn’t. And it’s on Aiden Bishop to find out what really happened. Only instead of a straight forward murder mystery he’s stuck in a time loop, living the same day over again but in different host bodies, able to see events from different perspectives and question guests about their whereabouts. But there are others trapped in the same predicament and only one of them can escape Blackheath. Whoever takes the murderer’s name to the Plague Doctor by […]

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7/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Male as the default human

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

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Our world is run on data. From the economy to healthcare to education we use numbers to allocate resources and make decisions. But there’s a blindspot in our data, and it’s huge: gender. Data doesn’t take women into account and uses men as the default human, leading to bias and discrimination across the board. Women pay for this bias in time, in money, and often with their lives. Caroline Criado Perez has gathered as much data as possible (often difficult because such data doesn’t always exist) to show how data bias is affecting women throughout the world. We’re ignored when […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Impossible Woman

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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In July 1979, Daisy Jones and The Six, a rock n roll band, were at the height of their success. Yet after a concert in the middle of the tour the band broke up, cancelling the rest of their dates. This book attempts to discover why that happened, taking us back to the days before the band had made it, when Daisy Jones and the band known as The Six were separate entities. Told more like an extended article or oral history, the book allows the main players to tell their own side of the story, while fleshing out their […]

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Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

But seriously, f*ck politeness

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark

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Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark are the hosts of the incredibly popular podcast My Favorite Murder. Along with gruesome tales of horror every week, they also chat about their own lives, hardships they’ve had, and what led them to start this podcast in the first place. They’re funny and interesting and aren’t bothered with always being correct in the telling of their stories. When you listen to them it’s like you’re hanging out with your buds chatting about the things that scare you. I was a Murderino for a few years. I’ve been to their live shows twice. Lately I […]

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6/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |


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