Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Why is this guy the worst villain in manga?

Nana 25th Anniversary Edition, vols 2-5 by Ai Yazawa

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Cbr18 Bingo – You. You could meet a Takumi or someone hurt by one. You probably have. The first volume of Nana by Ai Yazawa sets up the (platonic?) love story between two roommates named Nana. The young women have nothing in common but their name, age, and mutual devotion. It’s a sweet friendship that destroys the line between playing house and genuine romance. And then it all goes to hell in the subsequent four volumes. One of the Nanas (I’ll call her Punk Nana) […]

Self-Help 1, 2, 3!

The Journey from Abandonement to Healing by Susan Anderson

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

Please Yourself by Emma Reed Turrell

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It’s time for the heavy-weight competitors of the Self-Help category! A team up of not two but three books that are written by highly regarded mental health professionals and containing a wealth of helpful and, in this combo, complimentary advice on how to get over your damn shit! Okay but seriously, the combo of these books and the order I read them in was really great, which is why I’m doing a triple review. The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Surviving and recovering from the […]

Not That I Could Tell: Nosy and Nefarious Neighbors

Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser

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A woman is missing. Not just a woman, but a woman and her twins. Out of a beautiful, safe neighborhood in Yellow Springs, Ohio – home to Dave Chappelle.  She went missing after having a girls’ night with some of the neighborhood ladies, and no one seems to know where she is. But everyone is interested in finding out: from the intrepid young reporter, publishing an independent neighborhood paper to the only single woman in the neighborhood with a fraught familial relationship to the stay-at-home […]



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