Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I am exhausted.

Bunny by Mona Awad

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I watch them tug at him with a fury that no doubt they put into their graduate school applications. An endlessly entitled fury that will drive them toward the shiny pretty things of this world and not stop until they have claimed them. ― Mona Awad, Bunny CBR16 Bingo: Rage I did not finish this book. I enjoy complicated, messy, unlikeable characters. But the only person I could stand was the poet whom everyone ostracized. Maybe that was the point all along. Samantha Mackey (Smackie) […]

“A society that does not respect women’s anger is one that does not respect women”

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

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This is a DNF book for me, and you should know that going into the review. I did not DNF because the writing was poor, it was in fact very good. I did not DNF because the information was not well-sourced or in some other way in deficit – everything laid out was well placed and well investigated. The book describes the ubiquitous experience that women have with being taught to tamp down their anger and presents the research on the racial and cultural differences […]

I waited too long to read this one :(

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1) by Lauren Willig

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DNF @ 47% Dang, two DNFs in one day (the other was The Sun and the Void)! I got 200 pages in to this and realized I felt like I was just wasting my own time, so I stopped. This is a book that ten years ago—so a LOT closer to when I actually bought it—I would have probably given it four stars and then read at least the next two books in the series. Instead, I waited a ridiculously long time (this is now […]

I really did not like this book.

What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

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“The trouble with you is you don’t know what you want,” he said. “You say one thing and then another.” I knew he was right, and not just about my relationship with him; always I feel an ambivalence that spurs me first in one direction and then another, a habit that has done much damage. I didn’t deny what he said, I even nodded in agreement, at which his mood only darkened. ― Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You “Though I thought of him often, […]

Mariah Carey book DNF -> youtube rabbit hole of 90’s nostalgia

Why Mariah Carey Matters by Andrew Chan

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I am a Mariah Carey fan. Growing up in the 90s, it was hard not to be. With Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole, Gloria Estefan, Toni Braxton, and Vanessa Williams at the top of every R&B or Adult contemporary hits list, it was a golden age of solo female power ballads. I thought I had a decent understanding of Mariah’s discography from when she burst onto the scene with 1990’s Vision of Love. However, there is an entire era (or multiple eras) of Mimi […]

DNF the Current Majorly Buzzed Bestseller

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

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I hate the DNF but in this case it was doubly necessary. I should have known better given my luck with literary fiction, but The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store had a good opening segment preview and it was at the local library. DNF reason 1: it’s due back at the library tomorrow because it’s part of a special set of books where you can get a relatively recent release on a shorter lend with no renewals. DNF reason 2: I totally lost interest after […]



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