Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Niki

CBR lurker, and looking for something to motivate me to hit reading goals. Also F*%K Cancer.

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Niki's Reviews:

They can’t all be gems, some of them are just costume jewelry

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

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This would not typically be my type of book.  I do not speak in hashtag, nor do I use a lot of slang or cute phrases.  It’s not that I’m against it, it’s just not how I communicate.  This book, and Robinson’s previous effort, are filled to brim with them, and “unnec abbrevs” (unnecessary abbreviations).  Robinson is able to poke fun at herself about her style and her humor, owning that some of the way she is writing is ridiculous.  From anyone else, I’d have immediately abandoned the book. I came to read this (and her previous book) from my […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

…You’re There For Me Too

I'll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller

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I remember the first time I watched Friends.  I was in about 13 years old, and staying over night at my grandparents’ house, and I was bored.  This is the set of grandparents who had not one toy in our house, and when my sister and I would go over to visit, we were allowed to play with the one pair of binoculars and a cabinet full of Tupperware.  It was breathtakingly dull.  I don’t know why I was allowed to watch TV unsupervised, but Friends came on and I sat and watched the episode enthralled- it was The One […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

…But Like So Many Unfortunate Events In Life, Just Because You Don’t Understand It, Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t So

The Bad Beginning, Book The First by Lemony Snicket

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I did not read A Series of Unfortunate Events when they first came out.  I was a little too old, and I heard of them when the Jim Carey movie came out, but didn’t really get interested in it.  It wasn’t until the Netflix Series came out and it hooked the imagination of my son that the Series really revealed itself to me.  Once my son devoured all of the episodes of the tv show, he has moved on to voraciously reading the series.  I’m having a hard time matching his pace, but figured I’d start to try and catch […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

An affair to remember, I guess

The princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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I’m not totally sure why I picked this book, I didn’t watch the Star Wars movies until I was in college, and as such, they never caught fire for me.  I enjoy watching them with my 9 year old kid, because they bring him joy, but I’m Luke warm over them (my phone capitalized the “luke” so I didn’t set out to make a pun, but here we are). I was browsing audio books from my library and I wanted a light read. This book passed the time well enough, but it was incredibly uneven to me.  The intro talked […]

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2/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

This book was the Big Snooze

You Are a Badass:How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living and Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

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So, I really don’t know why I picked yet another self-help book, but here we are.  Again, Amazon was pumping this book at me, and it seemed more promising than Girl Wash Your Face and I requested them both from the library.  They both delivered to my account at the same time and I’m now listening to them back to back.  While this book (barely) compares favorably to Girl Wash Your Face, I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it.  I’m taking power of my own destiny, or some such affirmation? This book just wasn’t for me.  I think just […]

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1/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Marginal to bad advice wrapped in a “You can do it/Tough Love” package

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

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I grabbed this audiobook from the library after internet algorithms kept pushing it at me.  I knew nothing about it, and thought with the title and the cover photo that it might be humor-centric self help.  After listening to it, I might have to re-evaluate some life choices to see why amazon thinks this is for me.  It starts off earnestly, as a lot of mommy-blog type advice does, but even in the introduction, she gets self-righteous and talks about the contempt she has for the people who write to her who are struggling, how she wants to yell at […]

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1/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |


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