Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


What it is like to be a female firefighter

Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul

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Fighting Fire (1998) by Caroline Paul is a memoir of Paul’s experiences as one of the first women on the San Francisco Fire Department. Back in the late 1980’s, after a number of sexist and racist incidents, the Court required the department to diversify. Caroline Paul was seen at a gym and recruited. Paul had graduated from Stanford. She volunteered at a public radio station in Berkeley, and her twin sister was the Baywatch star: Alexandra Paul. Caroline was definitely not your typical firefighter, but despite […]

Here kitty, kitty

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3.5 Stars. My friend and I are doing a reading challenge this year and one of the challenges is to read a book with a cat on the cover. I thought it would be difficult to find a book that had a cat on the cover AND was one I wanted to read. Cats are great, I have one myself, but books with cat covers? Not usually my cup of tea. I can’t remember where I heard about Lost Cat, but it turned out this […]

Girl Power!

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I first heard of Caroline Paul because she was one of the first women firefighters on the San Francisco Fire Department, and she wrote a book about it (Fighting Fire, 1998). I bought the book, planning on reading it, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Once I went through my own fire department academy, I wasn’t too keen on going through the experience again–even through the eyes of another. But then I heard of another book by Caroline Paul, and I was curious enough to […]



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