Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Modern Mistake – Millenneagram Misses the Mark

Millenneagram by Hannah Paasch

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Ugh… it’s such a loaded word, but yes, I am a Millennial. I was excited to check out this book because I love the Enneagram. (I’m a Two.) I thought it would provide some fun insight. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I think this may be a book better suited for Enneagram beginners or younger Millennials. I had a hard time connecting to the tone. Furthermore, I didn’t feel that the information inside was anything that I didn’t already know.  For instance, my Enneagram type in […]

In which the illustrations were not up to par for this Type 4.

The Enneagram Made Easy by Renee Baron and Elizabeth Wagele

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CBR11 Bingo – Illustrated I’ve been a fan of the Enneagram for years, but with its recent popularity rise, I’ve been entering into more and more conversations with friends and coworkers who are starting to explore this for the first time. This book is different than all the other Enneagram books on my shelf for a couple reasons, with the illustrations being one of them. This is very much a beginner’s overview, and would be geared towards more of the casual enthusiast. Unlike some of […]

Where my Enneagram nerds at?

The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz

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For those not familiar with the Enneagram, I don’t really want to take up a ton of space with that explanation here. Basically, it is an ancient system of categorizing folks into 9 types. It’s more than a personality test; it focuses on internal motivations, wounds, and passions. It recognizes that the ‘type’ that you are is really a self-preservation mechanism that you learned as a child in order to protect the real you. There is a TON of info out there about this, so […]

Believe the Enneagram Hype

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I was skeptical about this book for two reason. When something is trendy, like the Enneagram, I hate it by default. (The first version of this book, to be fair, was from the 1980s.) I’ve also done a lot of introspective exercises in the last few years, and at this point I’m a bit skeptical of more of it.The reason is, at some point I think you have to focus less on yourself and more on the rest of the cosmos. I was mentally primed […]



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