A good introduction can grab you by the collar and say “sit down, this book is going to need your attention.” I immediately bought into Luvvie Ajayi’s I’m Judging You: The Do Better Manual when I read the first line of the introduction. One day, I was minding everyone’s business, scrolling through my Facebook news feed when I saw a picture of someone’s dead grandma being prepared for burial. Sold! I enjoyed this book tremendously. I think I marked at least 5 passages a chapter that […]
So you are going for your first Cannonball: advice from experienced Cannonballers
Welcome! Are you new to the Cannonball Read, or trying it again after signing up and not posting reviews? We want to make sure you have a great #CBR9, so we asked some experienced Cannonballers for advice. Don’t feel like an outsider! We all love books together!! – Melina Read what you like and review in your style. Don’t be embarrassed by what you like to read, and and don’t get too hung up about being witty and insightful. Add pictures and gifs! Tell us […]
Go read this book right now.
Do you have problems? Any problems? Do you need advice? About anything? Have you ever wished, probably around 2am, that you could sit at a table with a mom (maybe your mom, maybe the imaginary mom you wish you had) who would make you a cup of tea or coffee and sit across from you and call you honeybun and be so nice and believe in you so much but also tell you exactly what you needed to do to get your shit straight? Surely […]
An awesome resource for parents.
Despite the somewhat foreboding title, this is a great reference book for tackling the innumerable ways children are little buttholes without also being a butthole yourself. One thing I liked about this book was that it spends at least as much time addressing ways to prevent things you’ll need to discipline as it does on how to handle the problems. Half of parenting is just mastering scheduling your life around naptime and getting good at redirecting and making smaller humans think things are their […]