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A cell phone showing an audiobook of "Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir" by Wil Wheaton surrounded by board games.

Should be listened to in audio format if at all possible

Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton

June 10, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

I have wanted to listen to an audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton (of “Stand By Me” and Star Trek fame) for a while and when his annotated memoir Still Just a Geek came out it seemed like a good one to try.  Fellow Cannonballers, I did not expect the emotional journey I was about to take when starting this book.  In the opening, Wheaton says that he is going to try his best to make it seem as though he is sitting down having a conversation […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #writing, abuse, acting, Anxiety, cbr14, child acting, Depression, Dome'Loki, Star Trek, wil wheaton

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: #writing, abuse, acting, Anxiety, cbr14, child acting, Depression, Dome'Loki, Star Trek, wil wheaton ·
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Where Hands Go by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs

August 18, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

Trigger Warning: Book being reviewed discusses childhood sexual abuse, hereafter called CSA, just in case you need to skip.   Where Hands Go by Krystaelynne Sanders Diggs is a really well-illustrated resource that uses an easily accessible poem (whose rhyme scheme doesn’t hit 100% of the time, but you know that I’m much more of a stickler for that than most readers, and definitely child readers), to talk to kids about bodily autonomy.  Through really great illustrations of a young, black, female-presenting child & her mom, […]

https://cannonballread.com/2021/08/where-hands-go-nte/

Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: abuse, childhood sexual abuse, krystaelynne sanders diggs, NetGalley, Picture Books, Trigger Warning, where hands belong

NTE's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: abuse, childhood sexual abuse, krystaelynne sanders diggs, NetGalley, Picture Books, Trigger Warning, where hands belong ·
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Absolutely do not read this book

My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent

July 18, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – The Wilds [TW: sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, abuse of a minor, gun violence, language (which I’ve included in white text below)] There’s been some discussion recently on Cannonball Read about how far into a book does one go before giving up. My procedure is to give a a book at least 1/3 of its total page count before giving up entirely. My 11th grade English teacher, Mrs. Julie Cogburn (one of the best I ever had), shared this procedure with us. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: abuse, cbr13bingo, DNF, gabriel tallent, nature, survival, Trigger Warnings

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:38 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: abuse, cbr13bingo, DNF, gabriel tallent, nature, survival, Trigger Warnings ·
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Cover of Someone's Listening

Someone’s Listening…

Someone's Listening by Seraphina Nova Glass

June 21, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

I read this in a flurry with several other “domestic suspense” novels, so, admittedly, I had to refresh my memory. When I read the synopsis, I remembered that this one has a slightly different angle than some others, but it doesn’t stand out in my memory that strongly.  This could be more due to the fact that I read SEVERAL domestic thrillers in the course of a few weeks, and it’s now becoming much easier to predict what’s going on. Or it could be that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: abuse, domestic suspense, domestic thriller, domestic violence, seraphina nova glass, someone's listening

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: abuse, domestic suspense, domestic thriller, domestic violence, seraphina nova glass, someone's listening ·
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cbr12bingo – white whale (and BLACKOUT!!!! now I if only I could blackout and forget that this book exists!)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

October 24, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 8 Comments

Lolita is absolutely vile, and I cannot be convinced otherwise. Yes, Humbert Humbert is the worst, and yes, we are supposed to know that he is a monster, but good lord this book is venerated from here to kingdom come as if it is the be all-end all of twentieth century literature. The edition that I picked up, which was published in 1997 as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the original pressing- and is still the one in current re-prints and mass circulation, STILL […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 20th century lit, abuse, bingo, black out, cbr12bingo, jeremy irons, My Dark Vanessa, pedophilia, Rape, toxic masculinity, Vladimir Nabokov, white whale

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:110 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 20th century lit, abuse, bingo, black out, cbr12bingo, jeremy irons, My Dark Vanessa, pedophilia, Rape, toxic masculinity, Vladimir Nabokov, white whale ·
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The Perks of No Longer Being a Teenager

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

September 30, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

Oh, this book. I treated it like a sacred text back in high school. I gave it regular re-reads through the beginning of college, but then I let it fade into the background. It used to be my “Fall” book (despite it covering an entire school year) and while I continued to think back on fondly, I started to replace that nostalgia drip with the character-created playlists from within the book. It’s been years since I last picked it up, but Ride’s “Vapour Trail” creeps […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: abuse, coming-of-age, cringeworthy, friendship, high school, nostalgia, reread, Stephen Chbosky, suburbia, the nineties, trauma

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:106 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: abuse, coming-of-age, cringeworthy, friendship, high school, nostalgia, reread, Stephen Chbosky, suburbia, the nineties, trauma ·
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