Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Transforming a taboo into a cause

Period. End of Sentence. by Anita Diamant

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I’d heard of the Netflix film, Period. End of Sentence., after it won an Oscar in 2019. I haven’t seen the film yet, but when I saw the book, Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice (2021), I thought it might be interesting and informative. I also listened to this one on audiobook because I barely have time for anything else. This was a short, informative book about how the shame of menstruation and the lack of access to menstrual products (period […]

That’s Where I Started to Be My Own Person

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The Boston Girl felt to me like an interesting mix of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books and my grandmothers’ stories and the result was engaging, sometimes deeply moving, but not groundbreaking.  That is, this novel feels a bit old fashioned even though the narrator, Addie Baum, herself talks frankly about women’s issues in the first half of the 20th century.  The frame is that Addie Baum is being interviewed by her granddaughter, Ava, in 1985 and is asked to discuss how she became the […]

The Red (Tent) Wedding

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Years and years ago, I don’t remember when, Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent generated a lot of buzz in the lit-fic circles, particularly around book clubs. I picked it up about 8 years ago in a garage sale and then—story of my life—never read it. In my zeal to clean out my shelves, I’ve been forcing myself to stop.going.to.the.library.already and just focus on what is on my shelf. It’s been a rather telling experience, and this book has made me glad for the discipline. You […]



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