Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Almost wasn’t

I am, I am, I am by Maggie o’Farrell

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Man, life is so flipping fragile it’s a wonder any of us survive past infancy. I work at a children’s hospital and see all the ways that one gene flips or one chromosome is duplicated or deleted and suddenly bam, your lifespan goes from 75 to 14, so I have always been acutely aware of this fact (I was real fun during pregnancy, trust me). My problem is I see the race as having been won. I’ve made it this far and so I’m safe, all the near misses have just been flavor to add to my story.  Maggie O’Farrell […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

“Claim your power, and bring along your full humanity.”

Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach

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One of the weird things about me is that I *enjoy* attending graduation ceremonies. I can understand why others don’t like attending them – they can be very long and require us to sit in uncomfortable locations but there’s something about watching people I love accomplish something and be recognized for it that makes my heart happy. Because I’m a human full of contradictions I hated attending my own graduations. All of them were pure torture. One of the quintessential parts of graduations is the commencement addresses. I’ve read one before but I wasn’t expecting to read another. Abby Wambach’s […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

A-quirk-able!

My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

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Yet again, I’m really not sure why I picked this book, other than it kept getting recommended to me based on other things I’ve read.  I couldn’t really get into The Office,  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, or Bridesmaids, and I really don’t know anything else about the author other than her roles.  That said, I was looking for a new audiobook and this became available and I went for it. This book was a slog for me.  I just could not get into the folksy, “aww gee” awkwardness that was read with so.much.enthusiasm! and I felt like I could hear her winking through my speakers.  […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Who’d have known I was so interested in celebrities

This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Phillips

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I’m noticing a trend in the books I’m reading- a LOT of celebrity memoirs.  This must be a holdover from when I would read the gossip/fashion sites like Go Fug Yourself and DListed.  It also could be that having read a few, search algorithms are now pushing even more of them on me, and with my limited time I’m trying them out, and for the most part, they seem to be quick, light, reads. My familiarity with Busy Philips started with Dawson’s Creek.  She was the 5th season add in, and because I didn’t like her character all that much […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

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 |

An amazing job, indeed

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

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    A great thinker* once said that Frederick Douglass is “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more”.  I was so inspired by this, I decided to read Frederick Douglass’ story in his own words. Plus I found this book at a used-book table at our local Greek festival and couldn’t pass it up. Douglass wrote a clear-eyed description of his life from his earliest memories to his life after escaping slavery. He knew his mother very little, as children were separated from their parents very early on. When his mother […]

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6/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

I nearly cried myself dry

Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss by David Bagby

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If you’ve seen Dear Zachary, you’ll already know of the harrowing case that is contained within this book. I haven’t seen the film but was gifted this, and can now safely say that I will continue to avoid the film for fear of crying myself into a dessicated shell of my former self. Dance With the Devil is the memoir of David Bagby, father to Andrew and grandfather to Zachary, whose lives were both cruelly stolen by Dr Shirley Turner. It’s a howl of grief, a devastating memoir of the effects of their loss on David and his wife, and […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

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A couple of months ago I read American Like Me and focused my review on how the various contributors wrote and reflected on the way their lives hopped boundaries or existed on the edge of multiple cultures. In Educated Tara Westover is doing a deep dive of her own, very personal, journey of leaving one culture (that of her father) and exploring the cultures of more mainstream Mormonism and mainstream America. It is not a perfect book, and to my mind Westover chose an interesting time in her life to reckon with her lived experience to this degree and this […]

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


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