Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Horizontal is just the way some of us live

Horizontal Parenting How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down by Michelle Woo

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Guys: I don’t even know how to explain to you how validating this book is.  I’ve been helping raise kids, while also living with chronic debilitating illnesses & disabilities for 27 years now.  Very often, that raising occurs from a horizontal position, out of necessity.  Oh, today we’re have vertigo for no goddamn reason? Great day to play Auntie NTE is the troll under the bridge who won’t let you pass. Oh, goodie, the treatment I had last week that was supposed to only have 1 […]

“I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel”

Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson

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4.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Rep (features honest and sometimes graphic descriptions of life with a variety of mental and chronic illnesses) It’s no secret that Jenny Lawson, known online and to her followers as The Bloggess, suffers from a large number of ailments, both physical and mental. She has dealt with various kinds of chronic illness throughout her life and manages to be mostly very light-hearted and humourous about it. I chose to get this book in audio, because Jenny Lawson narrates her own books, […]

If you have a chronic illness, you’ll see yourself in this story. If you don’t, you need to read it anyway.

Unseen by Jacinta Parsons

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As with most of my favourite books, Unseen found me, rather than the other way around. A few months ago I was searching the app of my local radio station for ‘Crohn’s’ hoping to come across interviews that would help me understand more about this disease as I go through my own process of diagnosis. An interview with Jacinta Parsons appeared and I immediately listened, captivated for an hour. Obviously the interview was to promote the book, but at the time I didn’t pay much […]

Her heart was a burning, brilliant thing lodged against her ribs.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibert

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I have never been able to get into a Talia Hibbert book before. I wanted to. Ms. Hibbert seems like a smart and lovely person on Twitter. Get a Life Chloe Brown changed that for me. I have been reluctant to try another of her books, but multiple positive reviews and it’s free price on Amazon Prime made it more attractive. I liked it. It took me a while to get into it, but as Red and Chloe let go of their ticks, the humanity of […]

Doing something bad ends up going well

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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Official book description: Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items? • Enjoy a drunken night out.  • Ride a motorcycle. • Go camping. • Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. • Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. • And… do something […]

I’m losing my mind

The Memory Book by Lara Avery

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Official book description: “They tell me that my memory will never be the same, that I’ll start forgetting things. At first just a little, and then a lot. So I’m writing to remember.” Sammie McCoy is a girl with a plan: graduate at the top of her class and get out of her small town as soon as possible. Nothing will stand in her way–not even the rare genetic disorder the doctors say will slowly steal her memories and then her health. So the memory […]



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