Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Space: the Final Frontier

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino

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“It’s a planet,” I said. “It’s not what we thought it was back home. It’s not this safe cocoon, man. We’re out here spinning in all this chaos. The Earth is a planet. The Earth is a spaceship, and we’re all space travelers.” My husband was *thisclose* to finishing his BS in Physics and taking his first steps into an Engineering program when NASA began the slow down, and eventual shut down, of its shuttle launches. He never wanted to be an astronaut; he wanted to build the spaceships (and be the guy who worked on what we sent into the […]

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8/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:86 |

Better Than the Last One

Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic by Jennifer L. Scott

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Best for: People who like etiquette books and who are looking for a quick read. In a nutshell: Author continues to stretch the semester she spent in Paris into a lifestyle brand. Line that sticks with me: “Also think (and pause) before you speak.” Seriously, I need to be reminded this daily. Why I chose it: I’ve been picking up a lot of fairly heavy books lately. Even though I didn’t like her previous book, I felt like giving it another chance. Review: Books like this can be challenging to review. On the one hand, there are some great tips […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:67 |

I Used to Be With It, But Then They Changed What It Was

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler

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It’s surprising when books written about the future are still relevant decades later, and non fiction ones especially. In my experience the speculative tends to be dystopian, novels that seem relevant because human flaws are fairly consistent and easy to extrapolate from – Hi there 1984, Handmaid’s Tale, and Brave New World; I really wish we weren’t still power-hungry, misogynistic, and ready to amuse ourselves to death, but y’all weren’t wrong.  It is much harder to predict where we’ll go right, because hell, then success would be a formula. Alvin Toffler’s book splits the difference, though non-fiction it neither suggests […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

Stand Up. Fight Back.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

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Best for: People who see what is happening in the U.S. and want some quick tips on how to fight back. In a nutshell: The subtitle says it all. Twenty lessons the guide our fight against the encroaching tyranny. Line that sticks with me: “When exactly was the ‘again’ in the president’s slogan ‘Make America great again’? Hint: It is the same ‘again’ that we find in ‘Never again.’” (p 123) Why I chose it: I was in a bookstore on Tuesday and saw this on a table. It looked like a book I could read quickly, and I was […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:66 |

Exactly to my taste

Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense by Bob Holmes

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I adored this book, but it was so suited to my interests that I fear I may have dreamed it. I love to cook, I love social histories, and I love pop science, particularly deep digs into the everyday things we take for granted. Bob Holmes takes us on a scientific tour of flavor, doing his best to separate it from the physical perception of tasting, the senses of smell and touch, while acknowledging how indebted flavor is to each. This is somewhat limited by language; it’s hard to separate flavor and taste when English uses the words interchangeably, but […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

My first celebrity memoir, and a well chosen one at that.

Back Story by David Mitchell

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David Mitchell (no, not that one) is one of the most adorable people that too few people have heard of. I was vaguely familiar with his shows Peepshow and That Mitchell and Webb Look, but it wasn’t until I discovered that almost every episode of Would I Lie to You? was on Youtube that I truly became smitten with his wry, self-deprecating humor. He is so unambiguously British, and has wholly accepted the posh characterization that has somewhat artificially been placed upon him, I don’t know how it could possibly be true that someone wouldn’t fall in love with the […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

Time For A Different Kind of White Rage

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson, Ph. D.

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Best for: All white people in the U.S. right now. In a nutshell: Dr. Anderson shares a concise history of all the shit black people have gone through because of the anger white people feel when black people start to make even a little bit of progress. Line that sticks with me: All of them. Seriously, I underlined, circled, or commented on all but maybe three pages in this book. Okay, fine, here’s one: “Somehow many have convinced themselves that the man who pulled the Unites States back into some semblance of financial health, reduced unemployment to its lowest level […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:65 |

Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction by Terry Pratchett

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I didn’t think this book would be so emotionally difficult to get through. As readers of someone else’s fiction, it’s difficult to remember that there’s a real, down-to-earth, eats-and-breathes human behind the characters and fake world we so fall in love with. Terry Pratchett is himself, and even though Discworld was born from his head like Athena from Zeus, he’s not Discworld or any of the characters in it. In fact, to read his nonfiction is to sit in a very earthly room beside him having a very earthly conversation over a hot cup of milky tea and you feel […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

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