Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Brooklyn and billionaires (maybe millionaires, but I like alliteration)

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

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I found Pineapple Street (2023) by Jenny Jackson when I was looking for another audiobook for my commute. I probably first saw it on NPR’s Favorite Books, but I can’t remember at this point. My brother lives in Brooklyn, and I thought it would be interesting to read a book set in his neighborhood. This book has love, heartbreak, class divisions, and humor. I enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. Sasha is a normal New York City artist who has married into the Stockton family–a family […]

sometimes all we want is to see the other half live (bad lives)

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

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I could have gone to see Jenny Jackson at a reading at Hatchard’s in London but it clashed with another reading I had with Sólrun Michelsen, the first Faroese Island author to be translated into English (??? can that be right? you see how much I retain when information is conveyed aurally). That’s just a sentence I wanted to share—it seems to perfectly encapsulate the sort of blithe, literary life that I aspire to. I admit that I 1000% got suckered into the promotional material for this […]

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Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

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I rarely read the afterward in an author’s book. Usually it’s because I’m too excited to get started on the next book to really care. But I enjoyed Pineapple Street so much, I raced to the afterward because I wanted to see what inspired her to write the book. Reading it amused me because I think the book she produced was one her brain wrote as opposed to the one her heart thought she was writing. And that’s perfectly fine. According to Jackson, she was inspired by […]



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