This book was such a slog for me.  I even stopped reading for a bit and read an old favorite (review forthcoming).  Little Big Horn and Custer’s last stand should be interesting–but this was just so dry.  Moreover, the information was presented in such a jumbled fashion.  It was neither chronologically or thematically organized.  It might have been better for someone with more pre-existing knowledge about Little Big Horn, but as someone who had only very general knowledge going in, I really needed the information […]

For my first Cannonball Read book ever (and probably the first “book report” I’ve done in almost 20 years), I read How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran.  While I generally enjoyed reading this book and it was a fairly quick read, the entire premise really bugged me.  Essentially, the main character sets out to methodically change who she is, in other words to become a different girl.  The issue is that she believes she has to change herself entirely, and in fact create a wholly […]