Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You can be the most virtuous woman in the world and you’ll still carry the blame, not just for your desire but for everyone’s desire.”

Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein

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Very quickly into reading this I knew that I was going to have a terrible time trying to describe what the heck this book is. I will do my best, because I know that coming across someone unpacking what the heck the standard blurb on this is talking about can greatly impact your taking a chance on it in the first place (my reading of it is narfna’s fault, she reviewed it in her April 30 Books in 30 Days part 2 vlog, if you […]

*Such* a weird book, but I could not look away from it.

Identitti by Mithu Sanyal

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 4 Book 24/30 A German professor who has been passing as Indian for her entire adult life is found to have been born white, and because she has placed herself in the public eye and has become a pop culture figure/icon, controversy explodes. (The author was inspired by the cases of people like Rachel Dolezal—who gets a couple mentions in the book—to write a story engaging with a fictional and heightened version of that story.) We see through the […]

Not for me.

The Wilderwomen by Ruth Emmie Lang

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This one keeps souring in my mind the longer I’m away from it. The problem here is that I do not find stories about flighty people escaping from their responsibilities and the people counting on them–whether or not it was “their fault”–inherently interesting. In fact, I kind of hate them. Maybe other people get more kicks out of exploring their shitty unconnected left behind relationships with parental figures, but I find the whole thing unpleasant and not rewarding in any way. The one thing I […]



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