Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of book

His Favorites by Kate Walbert

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This one just across the board felt unsatisfying and falls sharply in the category of “why did I read that”. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right place to read a depressing story about a teenage girl. As I make my own Arya Stark-like list of “Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, Ohio” I just didn’t want to spend a few hours witnessing yet another abuse of a young girl without the tools to defend herself. I dunno. This is a story about a young woman named Jo. […]

So I guess I panicked from the word go.

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The Bus on Thursday – 4/5 Stars This was an audiobook and I hadn’t heard of it before I looked a little into and downloaded it from Overdrive. Also, had this not been Australian I might not have listened to it, and had I read the back I wouldn’t either. I also almost turned it off early on because of a kind of off-key line that I didn’t like. But something clicked in my experience at some point and I ended up really liking it. […]

An Impressionist Painting in the Form of a Novel

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She has come to understand the importance of structuring details around a narrative, the expectation of histories having a beginning, a middle, and an end, though she doesn’t really believe this is the way life works: she does not know the way life works. For CBR6 last year, I reviewed Kate Walbert’s 2004 novel Our Kind and among other things I was struck by the stream-of-consciousness narration. It allowed Walbert to move back and forth through time, building a web of interconnectivity between events and […]



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