Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Female memoirs about growing up in California and then moving to New York written by actresses!

Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

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Where Am I Now? 3.5 Stars I enjoyed Where Am I Now? back in CBR8 and decided to revisit it this year as an audio-book. Mara Wilson narrates her memoir which threw me off because the Mara Wilson of 2016 does not sound like I imagined. It’s not like I was  expecting her to still have her 1993 lisp but it was still jarring to my auditory system. Most people have embarrassing videos of themselves as children. Few have theirs copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox. Wilson’s […]

“You’re going to fuck up, but most of the time, that’s all right”

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I wasn’t initially going to get this book. While I’ve seen Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda, possibly the two films that Mara Wilson is most famous for, I haven’t really watched any of the others she was a child star in, nor do I follow her Twitter or writing career as an adult. It just didn’t seem like this would be all that interesting to me. Nonetheless, this book got a lot of positive write-ups from people with good taste, including Patrick Rothfuss and Wil Wheaton […]

“If you can affect someone when they’re young, you are in their hearts forever.”

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Mara Wilson’s precocious lisp was everywhere throughout my childhood; looking back, and on imdb, she wasn’t everywhere but simply in two movies that played on a frequent loop in my house. Her breakthrough role as Robin William’s daughter in Mrs Doubtfire and the titular role in Matilda has guaranteed her spot in the pop culture annals of anyone alive in the ’90s regardless of her adult career choices. I believe a lot of people my age (Mara Wilson is only about 6 months older than myself) saw her as a peer […]



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