Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

We Are All Our Own Refrigerator

Beard in Mind by Penny Reid

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This was not at all what I was expecting. Beard in Mind might be the best book Penny Reid has ever written. The lovely Mrs. Prolixity Julien and I have both put Penny Reid on triple-secret probation for sins against writing, reading and the Romance genre. We are harsh because we love and we want her to do better. Beard in Mind was doing better. A big huge thank you to Mrs. Julien for lending this to me. I will be adding it to my permanent collection. Beau and Shelly are equally interesting characters. We get a lot more of Beau than […]

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8/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:82 |

Reading the reviews sums up the experience.

Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason

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I think that I was really in the wrong mental place to read this book. I picked it up to help me figure out how to cope with a relative that I suspect might have borderline personality disorder. I started it while she was in a snit not talking to me because I’d taken a few hours to answer a text message. I thought, “I’ll read this book and figure out some coping strategies and be ready to deal with this anew when she starts talking to me again.” That…was not what happened. I found the book to be a […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

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My friend M. found the beginning of this book to be quite pretentious. And it is.  It’s pretentious AF for the first 60 or so pages.  And it’s hard to read pretention too.  The first few pages, especially, seem to drag and serve no purpose other than to make you re-think your decision to read it. But, I’m here to tell you that, while the first part of The Marriage Plot is definitely pretentious, it’s pretentious for a reason.  The pretention of Madeline and her parents and her classmates at Brown, including her boyfriend Leonard and her want-to-be-boyfriend, Mitchell, all […]

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3/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Apparently there are boring sociopaths

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas

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A book told about sociopaths from the perspective of a sociopath? Sounds fascinating. Also the creepy cover pulled me in. Unfortunately I ended up quitting this one halfway through because I was so. freaking. bored. How is it even possible to make a book about sociopaths boring?! The author writes anonymously, but is a self-professed and professionally diagnosed sociopath. She asserts that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath (I am not sure where this statistic comes from and would like to see the study that asserts this) and says she wants to share how her condition affects her life. […]

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3/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Stop Walking on Eggshells – regaining your sanity when someone in your life is a person with bpd

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. Mason, MS and Randi Kreger

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There is a person in my life that when I was first introduced to I was warned that, “X  is crazy but it’s subtle, you won’t notice it at first but one day X’ll say something and your perspective will shift.  You’ll then look back on what has happened previously and realize that X’s crazy”. On first meeting X, all seemed normal and for months I didn’t understand the warning.  Then about nine months after that first meeting an interaction occurred that made me go, “Huh, that was weird” and then I realized that my perspective shift had just happened as […]

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3/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

I don’t want to review this book.

Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney

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This brief audiobook gave me a bit of  an existential crisis. It’s billed as  a funny memoir-type-thing written by a comedian. It says so right on the cover. Which is why I spent the first half of the book asking myself, “Is this humor? What is humor? Is anything humor? What is life? Why am I here?” It wasn’t that it was a bad book, exactly, although it wasn’t great. It just wasn’t funny at all. Delaney covers his early life and youthful misadventures and…maybe they’re funnier in his head. It’s read by Rob Delaney, so you wouldn’t think all […]

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2/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

Cannonball: “What are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

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Many, many years ago, I read Wally Lamb’s first book She’s Come Undone. I can honestly say that the only thing I remember about that book is that the main character’s mother is killed when a tractor trailer crashes in to her tollbooth. Consequently, I think about that every time I drive through a toll booth. Anyway, when I read it, I happened to live with two other girls, one of whom had had the pleasure of knowing Wally Lamb as a teacher in her hometown, and so for Christmas one year she gave the two of us autographed copies […]

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10/20/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:52 |

Unsinkable doesn’t quite stay afloat

Unsinkable: A Memoir by Silken Laumann

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Many Canadians like myself remember Silken Laumann’s amazing perseverance after a severe leg injury, to win a bronze medal only 10 weeks later at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Even without the gold, she was one of the hero stories of the game, and certainly an important one for Canada. One day, I happened across an interview to hear her talking about her memoir, Unsinkable. She sounded quite passionate and open about her life, so I looked forward to reading it. After a long wait on my library’s list, I was expecting something like a Canadian version of Kevin Sorbo’s […]

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12/30/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:7 |

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