Cannonball Read 18

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I love to read, and I love to learn. I wish I were retired so I could spend more time on my random flights of fancy. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Sophia's Quick Questions interview.)

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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst

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I’ve found a number of interesting books when I need a new audio book by just seeing what is “available now” at my library, sorted by popularity. Is that how I found A Marriage at Sea (2025) by Sophie Elmhirst? Honestly, now I can’t remember. I may have seen it on a list somewhere. Also, now that I’ve read it, I’m seeing this book everywhere, including NPR and NYT’s 2025 lists. Spoilers follow. A Marriage at Sea is the true story of a couple, Maralyn and Maurice, who […]

Alice in a wonderland

Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

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I thought I’d been listening to Kristin Hannah’s latest novel, Magic Hour, but now that I’m writing the review, I just realized it was written back in 2006–so, almost twenty years ago and definitely not her latest novel. I’m a little late to this party. I’ve read a number of Hannah’s novels. Some of them I’ve really liked, and others I’ve found too contrived and I got annoyed. I was immediately drawn into this one, though, and I’m glad I read it. A young, malnourished girl wanders into […]

Science augmenting the human body

Replaceable You by Mary Roach

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Although it’s been a number of years since I’ve read a book by Mary Roach, I have read quite a few. Mary Roach writes non-fiction–digging into whatever topic seems to catch her fancy. Quite often this topic is at least a little bit taboo. She’s written a book about sex (Bonk), death (Stiff), and ghosts (Spook). When I was told her latest book was coming out, I immediately put a hold on it at the library. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (2025) is Roach’s latest […]

Kind of like Jane Eyre but not really

The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden

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I needed a book to listen to for my commute, and I needed it immediately. Somehow, The Wife Upstairs (2020) by Freida McFadden grabbed my eye when I searched available audio books at my library. I was not familiar with McFadden, but she has written a large number of successful thrillers, and she seems to have quite a following. Sylvia Robinson is not in a good place in her life when the book begins. She has just lost her job after being unfairly accused of stealing, she […]

Self help through self-compassion

Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

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CBR17Bingo: “TBR” because after this book was recommended to me, it took me months to finally get around to reading it. I am lucky enough to have access to some therapy through work because my job is inherently stressful. Recently I’ve been struggling more with stress and anxiety, and my therapist recommended that I read Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself (2011) by Kristin Neff. I wasn’t too sure about this book at first. Neff started out by saying, when you feel badly about […]

A boy named Henry

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

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CBR17Bingo: “Borders” – because even though bacteria do not respect borders, whether you contract or can fight off tuberculosis depends primarily on where you live. I know tuberculosis still exists in the United States because many years ago I had a patient cough in my face and later found out she suffered from tuberculosis. I knew just enough to be kind of concerned until I got tested and was negative. My only other knowledge of tuberculosis is that Doc Holliday suffered from it in Tombstone. It […]



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