Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hope the TV Show Brings This Book to Life

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction  There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it got picked by Reese Witherspoon’s […]

Love and pride don’t mix.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I first saw Daisy Jones & The Six recommended by Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip a few months ago. I’ve picked up several books from Lainey’s recommendations and enjoyed most of them. Daisy Jones & The Six was no exception. Daisy Jones & The Six was one of those books I found myself mentally casting as I was reading it. The supporting cast came together in my head pretty quickly but the leads were a bit harder. Daisy and Billy ended up as sort of amalgamations […]

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones and the Six is another recent Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, and so far, my track record has been pretty decent with Reese’s picks. Imagine if all of the members of Fleetwood Mac – as well as their producers, spouses, accountants, and friends — sat down and talked to a journalist, providing an oral history of everything that had ever happened to them. Imagine the amount of drugs and sex and backstabbing and inter-band politics that would be mixed in with brilliant songwriting […]

I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This is a novel in VH1 Behind the Music format. It’s posed as a behind the scenes tell all of a famous, if ethereal rock band from the mid to late 70s. In the beginning, the band is a kind Allman Brothers band type deal, then it morphs into a kind of Fleetwood Mac type deal with the addition of the beautiful, damaged, and beautifully damaged Daisy Jones, who herself feels like an amalgam of Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithful, Dusty Springfield, etc etc […]



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