Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Keeping It Weird

Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg

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Dear Ms. Limburg, Thank you for your book. Since my own late autism diagnosis, I’ve been reading everything by and about autistic women I can get my hands on. Your “Letter to the Reader” included a great list of books, some of which I had already read, or heard about, but many I had not. Books that teach me things are my favorite kind, and even before the letters proper started, you taught me many things. “Bayfield Hall Sculpture Trail, ‘Three Weird Sisters’ by Meg […]

Kimchi in everything!

The Korean Vegan Homemade by Joanne Lee Molinaro

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I took a chance; I ended up kind of feeling like a book from a few years ago looked better than it was for me, but when I saw the sequel, I decided to try it out again. The Korean Vegan: Homemade is a little more personal story oriented than the first one, which is kind of a cookbook trend the past few years, but that’s not the main thing; that would be the recipes. One the one hand, they look more do-able, especially with […]

“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek

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When  I first read about this book in The NY Times Book Review, I knew I had to have it. Having grown up on a steady diet of  hearing about “Ragtime” and “The Girl on the Velvet Swing”, or how about how Clover Adams’s Memorial was on my mother’s must-see list, any book that covered any and all of that was something I needed to read. Thankfully, this did not disappoint. Stan and Gus covers the working (and potentially sexual) relationship of Standford White and […]

A Life Well Lived

The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

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Rating: 3.5 Stars In a nutshell: Actress and dancer Kelly Bishop tells the story of her life. Best for: Fans not just of Gilmore Girls, but fans of theatre, and those who just appreciate a clever woman. Quote that made me think: “Aren’t we lucky that there’s such a wide variety of dreams to choose from, and so many people who choose them.” Why I chose it: I watched Gilmore Girls on streaming and found the characters interesting. Thought this might be an interesting read. […]

Let’s start this year with a green light!

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

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I’m not a memoir reader. But this was gifted to me during a happy hour, when my defenses were down and I was probably more excited than normal to receive a gift. All jokes aside, I will admit that one of my favorite books, The Glass Castle, is a memoir, so when Greenlights arrived in my audible account, I decided to waive judgment. But I felt like, of all the memoirs out there, is McConaughey’s really going to be the one to change my life (as […]

Better to Have Loved and Lost And be Literary Apparently

Artful by Ali Smith

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I’m not sure the best way to come into this novel. I came in knowing nothing about, feeling confused by the end of chapter 1 and then diving into internet search to find out more. This a slow moving meditation on loss and love, how our lives enmesh with those around us and the imprints their leave on them when they go. It’s based on a series of 4 lectures Ali Smith gave; On Time, On From, On Edge, and On Offer and On Reflection. I say based […]



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