Oh hey guys. This is my first cannonball and I have started the year off by reading a book that scrambled my mind. It been a week and I still don’t properly know how to express how I feel about this book. I didn’t know what to expect when I picked this up. I had seen it on a lot of Summer reading lists and I was at the bookshop looking at it when a lady rushed over to me and whispered “Don’t think about it honey, […]
85 Tips and Suggestions for Those Entering the Field of Psychotherapy
“An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients” I would have liked to start CBR8 off with something more enjoyable rather than a required reading for school, but alas! Duty calls and all that. And to be honest, this wasn’t the driest or most difficult reading I’ve had to do for school: in fact it went by easily and was filled with some quite good ideas and tips that will hopefully stick with me as I come up to starting my […]
Hungry Like the Coyote
Three months have passed since all of the adults have disappeared and the kids are struggling in the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone). Everyone is starving through previous mismanagement of food and due to other creature evolution. Let’s just say farming has just gotten a little bit more dangerous. Tensions are building because Sam, doesn’t have the ability to solve everyone’s problems and is just as frustrated as everyone else because no one else seems to be coming up with any solutions to the numerous […]
How to build a Cannonball Read
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 […]