Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm a marketing supervisor for a local community bank looking to improve my writing skills. I've always been an avid reader but never completed a full cannonball.

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A Creative Ass Kicking

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

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I have a goal this year to balance out my fiction with non-fiction books that will inspire me – or give me “a kick in the ass,” as quoted on the front of The War of Art. I actually meant to reread Do the Work, also by Steven Pressfield, but mis-remembered which book I read previously. While written for writers, Pressfield’s book is filled with creative ‘ass kicking’s’ for anyone who finds themselves putting off the work they should be doing. The War of Art […]

Does 2 Out of 3 Count if the Third Book is the Worst?

Wool, Silo Series, Book One by Hugh Howey

Shift, Silo Series, Book Two by Hugh Howey

Dust, Silo Series, Book Three by Hugh Howey

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I picked up the box set of Silo during Amazon’s fantastic book series sale in December. I had watched the first season of the Apple TV+ show and was curious about the books. I had read a review that Hugh Howey had disappointed with the ending, but I was willing to give it a try. BOOK I – WOOL The trilogy begins with a character fans of the show will be familiar with – Sheriff Holston. His wife had volunteered to clean a few years […]

Do Fly – How to Take Off Creatively

Do Fly by Gavin Strange

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I first encountered the joy that is Gavin Strange during Adobe Max in 2021. I was inspired by Gavin’s talk – he spoke on how he created his success and was hired for his job at Aardman Animations as a designer and director. (Gavin also has his non-Aardman work at JamFactory.) What I found inspiring about Gavin is much of his knowledge of creative creation is self-taught. He urges us to not deny our urges to learn and discover. “The more you open yourself up […]

Not as enjoyable as I hoped

The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie

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I bought my first book by Joe Abercrombie by mistake. I did not mean to click the ‘buy it now’ button, but I did, and I eventually read and thoroughly enjoyed The Blade Itself – Book one of the First Law Trilogy. I went on to devour the other two books of that trilogy, then consumed the whole Shattered Sea Trilogy in a month. I was excited to learn that Abercrombie was returning to the First Law world with another trilogy – The Age of Madness. The first book of […]

Stop thinking and start creating!

Making Comics by Lynda Barry

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Part comic book, part course curriculum, and part self-help book, Making Comics by Lynda Barry can show and teach you to see stories in simple drawings. And how to make those drawings yourself! Lynda Barry is a cartoonist, author, and teacher, and Making Comics reads as if you were a student in her comics class. Barry teaches us how to draw without judgment by showing us that the drawings we made as kids were simplistic – but we knew what they were! That yellow circle […]

A Tale of Two Sisters

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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A bestselling historical fiction novel set during World War II, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is best if you only think of it as fiction. Hannah may have researched the details of France and WWII, but her characters initially struck me as stereotypical: Vianne, the older responsible sister Isabelle, the beautiful and spontaneous troubled teen Gaetan, the striking escaped prisoner, headed to the French resistance movement The broken and brooding father The handsome, kind Nazi  Thankfully, Hannah developed more complex emotions and motivations for her […]



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