Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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A Compelling Memoir of Sudden Marital Betrayal

Stangers by Belle Burden

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I make my return to CBR after a long absence due to wrapping up grad school, graduating, and recently starting a new job, so there have been a bunch of life transitions that left me both reading less and also having much less will to write reviews. I contemplated just waiting until January and trying again then, but I am countering my perfectionism and think it’s better to get back into the habit now instead of putting it off. This job is going to be […]

As I got older and mercifully more aware of what a precious gift a healthy working body is, I felt ashamed and bewildered that I could have treated mine so badly.

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

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CBR18 Bingo: Left – Feeling left behind by friends, by partners, and being unable to achieve the next perceived life milestone that everyone seems to be completing. The transitional state of a long journey has always seemed to me the most romantic and magical of places to find yourself in; marooned in a cozy pod of your own thoughts, suspended in midair, traveling through a wad of silent, blank pages between two chapters. ― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love I gave almost all […]

A harrowing journey in 93 pages.

Happening by Annie Ernaux

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“Thousands of girls have climbed up stairs and knocked on a door answered by a woman who is a complete stranger, to whom they are about to entrust their stomach and womb. And that woman, the only person who can rid them of their misfortune, would open the door, in an apron and patterned slippers, clutching a dish towel, and inquire, “yes, miss, can i help you?” I had been casually looking for this book (which was strangely expensive on Kindle, although the price seems […]

A story of growing up with oppression that’s equal parts hilarious and heartwarming

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

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CBR18 BINGO: Or, because it gave me a much clearer perspective on South African during the apartheid “Run for cover. Run and hide. I knew that as a five-year-old. Had I lived a different life, getting thrown out of a speeding minibus might have fazed me. I’d have stood there like an idiot, going, ‘What’s happening Mom? Why are my legs so sore?’ But there was none of that. Mom said ‘run,’ and I ran. Like the gazelle runs from the lion, I ran.” This […]

CBRBINGO: Friends—”I was most flattered when I was called the Steven Spielberg of Sitcoms, and in response to that, Steven called me and told me that he wanted to be known as the James Burrows of movies.”

Directed by James Burrows by James Burrows

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I bought this at Book Outlet earlier this year (or late last year? what is time) and didn’t feel any particular rush to get to it. Then James Burrows died in June, and now just felt like the right time. This is a career-focused memoir told by James Burrows to Eddy Friedfield, who compiled it all into a book. You can definitely tell that Burrows is not a writer (a fact that he opines at least four times throughout the book—is this irony or what?) […]

Why can’t we save all the cats?

Poets Square by Courtney Gustafson

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I worked at a local cat rescue for about six months. I wanted a volunteer job, and this cute spot called Community Cats was right around the corner from me, so I signed up. My limited schedule meant I could only take a mid-Sunday shift, which meant less quality cat time and more laundry and mopping. Still, it was nice to give back to my favorite felines and get to know the quirky ladies who cared for them. As time went on, I realized I […]



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