Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you’re looking for a memoir, this is a good one.

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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I don’t really do memoirs so much but had heard so many good things about this book that I was convinced to try it.  All the good reviews are right, and this book is great. I hadn’t heard of Trevor Noah before he took over The Daily Show, and while I still miss Jon Stewart (I mean, who doesn’t?) Noah has grown on me.  After this book, I like him even more.  This is not a comedian’s memoir; rather, it’s a growing-up memoir, stories about a boy trying to make his way in a confused and confusing world, and it […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

Just some nice books.

I Feel Bad About my Neck and A Man Called Ove by Nora Ephron and Fredrik Backman

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I Feel Bad about My Neck The charm of this book lies in the fact that the audiobook was read by Nora Ephron. I listened to the whole thing on a walk. This is a short collection of essays about aging in various kinds of ways, whether that means the effects on aging on your body or the simply just the passing of time. So those two themes, along with a few others, sort of permeate this whole collection. The essays include the frustration of carrying a purse, the frustrations of how your neck always shows your age even if […]

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8/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:329 |

I feel guilty I didn’t like this more

We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby

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I really wanted to like this book.  It seemed up my alley, and I was in the mood for essays; something sassy and brisk. The back cover blurbs were encouraging, and I had finished Lindy West’s Shrill just prior to the start of this cannonball read, so her endorsement left me hopeful that this book would have the same effervescent tone while having something larger to say about culture or gender or race. Instead, it just felt to me like reading someone’s blog – which makes sense given Irby’s start online – occasionally amusing anecdotes without much point. Moreover, not […]

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8/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

“Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.”

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

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I have a well documented problem with books that have too many characters, particularly when the too many characters each have chapters from their point of views, so I don’t think I was every going to love Into the Water… That being said, even if the novel only focused on two or three of the characters I still don’t think I would have been into it, definitely not like I was with Hawkins’ previous novel Girl on the Train or any of the other recent strings of female focused thrillers. Nel, a single mother, is found at the bottom of the river in a […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:83 |

Unfiltered. Unsupervised. Unapologetic.

Stories I'd Tell in Bars: yeah, bro, another memoir by Jen Lancaster

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Jen Lancaster was the author that really got me into the memoir genre; she was loud, liked animals and felt comfortable sharing most of her somewhat ridiculous life with her audience. In recent years she has delved into fiction which I tried but haven’t enjoyed. Jen knew her core audience, including many of the women buying her fiction, wanted more memoirs from her and she wrote this book for them. But then her publisher didn’t want to publish “vintage Jen Lancaster” so she opted to self-publish. You can tell. It is rife with spelling and grammatical errors- to the point […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

I wonder if this author would call me a snowflake?

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

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When I was about halfway through Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job I had to go on Amazon to check the other reviews to see if anyone else was bothered by what I was, i.e. the rampant casual racism/sexism. Out of the eleven one-star reviews and however-many two-star ones, I only saw one that mentioned my concerns, so maybe I’m blowing that aspect out of proportion. In fact, I think he may even have written a sequel. But in his attempts to include “jokes” and “quirky characters,” the author uses frequent references to offensive stereotypes of: Asian people (“they can’t pronounce […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

It makes sense in the book, I swear (ft. Greg Davies)

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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A classic in fantasy. You’ve probably already read this, right? If not, lucky you! You get to read it now. Like right now. Stop reading this and go find the book! Still here? Eh, I tried. If you’d like to know the book takes place in a universe where the world is a flat disc and balancing on the back of four elephants who in turn rest on the back of A’Tuin, the giant turtle. This is where Rincewood lives. In a chaotic, warm and smelling city where he one day happens upon the tourist called Twoflower with magic selfwalking […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Hi. I’m Badkittyuno, and I’ve fallen behind again…

Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum + 25 others (don't hate me) by Sarah Forbes + 25 others (don't hate me)

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Hi. Sorry. I really thought I was like 10 reviews behind and it turned out to actually be 19. So then I started up this list of reviews…and didn’t post it…and now I’m 26 behind. I would blame my kids/divorce/life, but really — I’d much rather read than write! Also, I’ve been working from home a lot and doing laundry instead of writing reviews (which is what I do when I get bored at the office), so that’s not helping. Anyway, here’s 26 brief reviews and please don’t hate me! Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York’s […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:158 |

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