Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“look, I know you don’t believe me when I say I’m imprisoned in our slack workplace”

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

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CBR14Bingo: Rec'd (I recommend this one! Fast and excellent skewering of Slack/work culture in 2022) This is one of those books that hit me at the exact right time. As someone who is constantly on Slack for work, I am still thinking about perfectly it skewered the grim experience of corporate … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:94 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

“You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.”

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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I'm really late to the party on this classic. I read the 25th anniversary edition, which included a beautiful forward by the author in which she explains who she was while she was writing this book. A young woman, on the cusp of being a true adult- a woman who wanted badly to please her father and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Where is my mind?

The Last House on Needless Strett by Catriona Ward

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It's hard to talk about this book without spoilers - and as much as I WANT to talk about it, I really don't want to spoil it for you, because the revelations are part of the appeal. This is a book about missing children, adults with mental illness, a sort of revenge-plot, and cats. It's about abuse … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:98 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Baby’s first Patricia Briggs.

Masques (Aralorn, #1) by Patricia Briggs

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This is sort of a deceptive three stars, because I really liked the story and the characters, but the pacing is so weird, and the book isn't fleshed out enough. Also, I did read the updated and expanded version, but I'm attaching this review to the cheesier, older, more colorful original cover … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:163 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , , ·

CK-UP

The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian

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If you saw this book in 1997 when it was first published and began appearing in bookstores, especially the likes of Books-a-Million or Barnes or Noble, you might recognize the cover. It was deeply scandalizing and deeply alluring. In reality the book is not really either, and this ends up being a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:576 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Book of Ages by Jill Lepore

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This history takes up the question asked in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own regarding a hypothetical Shakespeare sister who instead of being a wife and mother (her likely fate) is offered an opportunity to explore her career endeavors or whatever career she might want for herself. Instead of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:575 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: ·


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