Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Feed me, Seymour; feed me.

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee

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So, like any new parent, I will take any opportunity to insert a story about my kid into a conversation.  At three months old he’s abnormally interested in food, which is fairly remarkable when his first-hand experience of it is limited to milk. The kid watches people eat like it’s the most fascinating thing anyone has ever done. It will sometimes calm him down when he’s fussy. He’s transfixed by the experience of eating, even when he isn’t able to  enjoy it directly. The kid comes by it honestly though, as his mom does the same thing with books and […]

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6/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

I Am Malala

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

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Going into reading this, I thought that I knew Malala’s story and that I would be reading about how her experience with the Taliban made her who she is today. I thought that the fact that Malala was a girl who was shot by the Taliban is what she was known for. I was surprised to learn that this was not the case. She was speaking out for the rights of everyone to receive an education before she was shot, and was one of the reasons that the Taliban targeted her. Malala father believed that everyone deserved an education, and even […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

The end of the beginning

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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When this book first came out, a friend of mine texted me and told me I had to read it. I dutifully added to my TBR list, but privately I thought I’d never get around to it. I couldn’t imagine ever being in a mood where I’d want to read the memoir of a man who died of cancer in his 30s. I work in direct service, and it’s a convenient excuse to get out of a lot of “sad” things. I see real life sadness everyday, I tell myself–I’m not going to go to see tearjerker movies. I’m not […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

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 |

Oofta

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

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I have really mixed feelings about The Stranger in the Woods. I picked it up because I had heard good things and I remember reading the original magazine story about Christopher Knight and being enthralled. By the time I finished reading this book however, I felt kind of dirty and guilty for having read it. This book is an ethical quandary. In 1986, Christopher Knight drove into the main forest and disappeared from society. It wasn’t until 27 years later when he would be arrested and forced back into the society he willingly left. For those 27 years, Knight made […]

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6/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

Honest and Complicated

Hunger by Roxane Gay

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Best for: Those who enjoy amazing writing, searing honesty, and vulnerability. In a nutshell: Roxane Gay shares a memoir of her life, framed through her relationship with her body. Line that sticks with me: There are too many to include all of them. But here’s one: “But the pain of a tattoo is something to which you have to surrender because once you’ve started, you cannot really go back or you’ll be left with something not only permanent but unfinished. I enjoy the irrevocability of that circumstance.” (p 186) Why I chose it: It’s Roxane Gay. Come on. Review: (CN: sexual […]

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6/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

Culture Shock

First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist by Barbara Gallatin Anderson

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First Fieldwork was an assigned reading when I took Intro to Anthropology in college. That was a good 15 years ago, and since then I’ve reread this book probably five times. It’s short, it’s interesting, and it’s hilarious. Barbara Gallatin Anderson recounts a fieldwork assignment in the tiny fishing village of Taarnby, Denmark. She and her husband are there to study the changes that urbanization is making to the culture of the small town. To this non-anthropologist, that sounds dull as dishwater, and I’m guessing I wouldn’t have had any interest in a genuine ethnography. First Fieldwork, however, is not […]

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6/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

Dedicated People Make Amazing Things Happen

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward by Elizabeth Ford, MD

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Doctor Elizabeth Ford is a psychiatrist who has worked on and overseen the prison hospital psychiatric wards at Bellevue Hospital in New York since 2000. In this memoir, Dr. Ford describes the conditions, staff and patients in these wards as well as her own personal journey in working with them. Much of what she describes is frustrating and tragic: the lack of space and consistent treatment for those in need, seeing the same prisoners cycle back into her wards over and over, stories of individual prisoners (whose names have been changed) whose mental illnesses cause them and those around them […]

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6/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

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