Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Read ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ Instead

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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Uggggghhhh. Sometimes I don’t know why I do it to myself, choosing books like this to read (or at least why I don’t quit when I’m not enjoying it). I think its that I always suspect the book is going to get better, especially 'classic' books, because otherwise why would someone still be putting it … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , ·

I’ll stick to my TV Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

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Anthony Bourdain was one of my travel heroes and his suicide several years ago still guts me (while reminding me that people who look like they have everything you could want may still be very unhappy). I have never read any of his work before but I love his voice and attitude, which is to say: my … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food · Tags: , ·

Meandering but fascinatingly so

Red Nile by Robert Twigger

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This is a long, dense and very interesting non-fiction collection of snippets of history, geology or curious anecdote (sometimes all three) that Twigger has pulled together, all of them related to the Nile. Of all the Egypt-related books that I’ve read this year (and there were many), this one and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

Cat person

Decoding Your Cat by Meghan E. Herron

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My cats were hanging around the whole time I was reading this book and I kept telling them, “I’m learning all your secrets.” They were nonplussed, which seems about right. Written by veterinarians, the book is set to explain some of the basics of cat behaviour and how we can train our favorite … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

Not just surviving, but thriving

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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The Color Purple felt intimidating before I started it- it won Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and it was adapted into a much loved and lauded film that launched Oprah and Whoopi Goldberg’s careers to the next level. (I have seen stills of the film but have yet to watch it). … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

“A part of Sinatra, no matter where he is, is never there.”

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays by Gay Talese

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This was a Christmas present from last year due to my interest in Frank Sinatra and other complicated mid-century men with bad tempers. It then sat for a while until I re-entered my interest phase, which only apparently took about a year. The titular essay is extremely well known as one of the main … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:133 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , ·


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