Cannonball Read 12

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search This Site

2020 Registration Now Extended to Jan. 31! Sign up for CBR12 today, and help us stick it to cancer, one book at a time!

> FAQ Home
> Tag: Marriage

The Garment in Which Memory is Stitched

My Wedding Dress: True-life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears, & Tulle by Edited by Susuan Whelhan & Anne Laurel Carter

by Leave a Comment

Finding my own wedding dress was a study in disappointment. I didn’t have any of the appropriate reactions I felt I was supposed to have, and the ‘yes, this is the dress,’ moment didn’t happen until I went to the last fitting. Indeed the entire process of planning my wedding unearthed strange emotions and bizarre traditions and expectations I’d never thought mattered very much. In the end it was a great day, and much to my own annoyance, I have to admit I’m glad we […]

A choice between family and being your authentic self

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu

by Leave a Comment

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu isn’t quite a romance but digs into what it means to love. Lucky marries her gay friend Kris to appease her family and remain accepted by her Sri Lankan immigrant community in Boston. A marriage of convenience that works well on the surface. Everyone believes she married for love and escaped the fate of an arranged one. Kris and Lucky can be who they are together in LGBTQ spaces, taking home whoever they want. But things get […]

“Your relationship is a great adventure. Treat it as such.”

Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, Rachel Carlton Abrams

by Leave a Comment

Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman are renowned psychologists who specialize in what makes happy, healthy, long-lasting romantic relationships work. One of John Gottman’s claims to fame is to be able to determine, with 94% accuracy, which couples are headed for divorce on the strength of a five minute snippet of conversation. I read Dr. Gottman’s Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work before I married my husband. Neither of our parents have marriages we wished to emulate, and research is my love language. […]

Marriage is not an end. It is a means to an end.

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together by James Sexton

by Leave a Comment

Well, this was a terrifying read. I can see why the author says he doesn’t get invited to cocktail parties. (He does, however, point out that he still gets invited to weddings. So there’s that.) James Sexton has litigated over twelve hundred divorces in his career. He’s seen the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats. The acrimonious and amicable. He’s represented the ones blind-sided by the divorce papers, he’s represented an actual pimp in a custody hearing. He’s been described as a ruthless sociopath, and […]

when perfect isn’t enough

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

by Leave a Comment

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Hello! It’s hard for me to write about this one without giving away the whole plot, so I’m going to be oblique. Yejide and Akin are a young, happily married, childless couple, and their childlessness leads them both to some questionable and desperate decisions. Yejide’s life seems damned near impossible, while somehow simultaneously completely normal. Or maybe “normal,” but either way it seems impossible, but there she is, making it happen, in the way that so many women do. What she doesn’t […]



Help Our Mission

We are an Amazon affiliate. Use the links in the reviews to make your purchases and a percentage of the money you spend will help us stick it to cancer, one book at a time.

You can also make a donation through the following:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo
  3. Google Pay