Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A mixed bag, but in the end it won me over

Believe Me: a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens by Eddie Izzard

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Another shout-out for the little free libraries of Burbank, CA! This book is a roller coaster, if your idea of a roller coaster starts out as insanely boring with bits of really interesting insight and a few chuckles along the way that leaves you with more questions than answers. I realize that is not a resounding endorsement, but I’m giving this book  3 stars because in spite of many flaws I found it rather inspiring. I’m going to be kind of hard on it though, so buckle up. First off, I’ve been a fan of Eddie Izzard since I saw […]

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4/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Also I just watched Girls Trip for the first time and it was pretty great.

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

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This was a pretty good listen. There were parts during the first third or so where I was actually laughing out loud, and I don’t do that very much. Mostly it’s just inward laughter or maybe a small noise of some sort to indicate my own amusement to myself. She was cracking me up, though (definitely do the audio if you’re going to do it at all; the swamp tour story alone is worth it). But then a single chapter had to go and ruin it for me. Most of the book is delightful. Tiffany clearly wrote the book herself; […]

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3/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

When we came to the end, we loved it

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

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I picked up this novel because I enjoyed Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, though, as my review states, I was at a loss to explain exactly why I liked it. Ferris’s sense of humor appealed to me, though, and I like authors who don’t claim to have all the answers. Then We Came to the End is his first novel, and it is certainly a curiosity. Written in first-person plural point of view, the narrators’ “we” refers to the employees of an advertising agency that is going through hard times and, consequentially, layoffs. The unusual narrative style […]

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2/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

What a wild and crazy guy

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

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I love Steve Martin.  The first time my wife visited my house when we were dating, we watched The Jerk.  He is a damn national treasure.  I was interested in the reading this book for some time now, six years according to Goodreads, and it was not quite what I was expecting and yet I loved it all the same. This book seemed almost like Martin wrote it reluctantly and somehow I enjoyed that.  I suppose I expected Born Standing Up to be a typical memoir type book filed with anecdotes and funny stories.  That is a part of this […]

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2/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Bad books make for a good read

Bad Book Club by Robin Ince

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Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club is a funny and interesting tour through some of the books you will never find in Waterstones, hidden as they are inside charity and secondhand shops. Robin Ince has made a habit of collecting these books – the more esoteric or eccentric, the better – and reading them so that we don’t have to. Taking us into a world of ‘celebrity’ autobiographies (with those on the lower end of the fame scale and yet high on ego providing the more entertaining entries), specialist animal care books, pick-up tips for men, women’s secret fantasies, pseudo-science, New […]

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1/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good…

The Delinquent Housewife! 1 by Nemu Yoko (translated by David Musto)

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Komugi and Tohru are young newlyweds (or about to get married? I’m not entirely sure) who move in with his family while they find their own place. Tohru’s family – mom, grandpa, brother Dai and sister Yukari – are warm and welcoming (except Yukari) and eager to make Komugi feel like part of the family. For her part, Komugi is sweet and helpful and just generally delighted to be part of the family. Just as everyone is starting to get comfortable with the new living arrangements, Tohru must leave on an unexpected business trip. He tells Komugi that she can’t […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

David Mitchell is slightly grumpy about things

Thinking about it only makes it worse by David Mitchell

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Thinking about it only makes it worse is a collection of posts that Mitchell has written for the guardian over the years. Dealing with everything from contemporary politics to weird hangups on grammar David Mitchell does what David Mitchell does best: is slightly grumpy about things. “Brainchild” is an odd word. You hear it a lot in explanatory voiceovers and I suppose I was trying to join in, but I don’t really like it. I’m not keen on the idea that my brain could have a child. Would it be made of brain – a child, made of grey brain, […]

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12/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

My First Ever DNF featuring Paul, Mary, Mel, and Sue <3

American on Purpose by Craig Fergusson

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American on Purpose opens with a chapter on the white house correspondents dinner which I read just after reading this article. It made it feel a bit sour in my mouth. I bought this book, because, despite my rather lukewarm rating for Between the Bridge and the River, I did think it showed potential and people here were raging about how this biography was really good. I persevered through it, somewhat, but it was honestly a slog. It is mainly written for Americans, and there is nothing wrong with that! I always think it’s cool when Denmark gets positive media […]

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12/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:46 |


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