Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Throw the whole damn man away

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult

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I have to admit some bias with this book, because a good friend of mine who is wayyyy too amazing to date the Jaydens, Braydens, and Okaydens that she usually goes for just got her heart broken by the most average basic cis dude doctor.  But even so, throw the whole damn man away Paige. Our heroine is not perfect, mind. She leaves her husband and three month old to go find herself by searching for her wayward mother for a few months. Because she’s […]

I hated, hated, hated this book

Magic and Loss by Virginia Heffernan

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I’m actively angry at this book. “Probing my own experience, I discovered I generally find happiness in book reading when it’s desultory, unregulated, and somehow truant. I confess to taking gross liberties with traditional books, savoring the rule breaking, skipping forewords, concordances, and boring chapters, while lavishing prurient attention on jacket copy, dedications, and acknowledgements.” So what you’re saying is you judge books by their covers and don’t pay attention while reading? That’s evident from the prose. Apparently Heffernan doesn’t pay attention while writing either. […]



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