Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“Children long to be eaten. Everyone knows that.”

XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (editor)

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Am I typing this up while wearing a tee featuring the cover of the d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths? YOU KNOW IT! That strange tome of simplified myth and ultra-bright illustration cracked open a need in me when I was very young. I re-read that book countless times, and used it as the entry point into the larger world of mythology. Combined with a Catholic upbringing that was far more focused on the deaths of the saints than on anything else, you could saw I […]

What are- books you should NOT read while pregnant…

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Do Not Become Alarmed  by Maile Meloy

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CBR11 Listicles: Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty Goodreads Top 20 Books of 2016 I am doing a terrible job planning my Bingo scorecard. I had a much clearer plan of attack last year but am mostly playing it by ear this year. Luckily I was able to stumble into a square with a reread of Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty since it appeared on Goodreads Top. After reading Nine Perfect Strangers and being… underwhelmed… I decided to read something else by Liane Moriarty and decided on Truly Madly Guilty because […]

Not the best book for parents

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I guess I’m a sucker for lists because Do Not Become Alarmed (2017) by Maile Meloy also came off a list. This list had something to do with gripping or fun summer reads. I first heard of it when we were discussing what to read for our next book club. I remember that we widely rejected it for book club because it involved children in danger, and the parents in the group had no interest in imagining their own children in similar situations. I figured I could […]

Three books on a Saturday I guess.

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Among the Thugs – 5/5 This book is so great. Bill Buford goes to write about soccer hooligans in England in the 1980s and gets accepted into their core. He doesn’t write in a sympathetic or like he’s “gone native” but he definitely clearly seeks to understand and explain. He also clearly has an affection for various individuals he meets along the way, lies in approval of white supremacy England National Fronters, and finds himself glad to see his “friends” when he gets separated in […]

Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It

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Like the Alice Munro collection I read earlier in the year, this is not a book I would have found satisfying in my twenties, when I wanted cohesion and conclusiveness, a beginning, middle, end, and some adventure, too, preferably with a happy ending. These stoires are a little more sad, a little more abrupt, have a little too much reality in them. Maybe that’s why I have started reading more short stories–I already know the tropes, I want to see how they appear to someone else.  This […]



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