I am reluctant to share the plot details of All the Light We Cannot See for fear of spoiling the experience that is unspooling this beautiful novel. This is a dual narrative, switching back and forth between a young man in Germany and a young woman in France during WWII. Werner, a brilliant orphan with hair as white as schnee, is a radio-repairing engineering genius who finds himself in the German army while Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, flees occupied Paris with her beloved father […]
“Women have power. Go, Girl, go.”
I first heard of Sheila Nevins maybe 8 or so years ago. I was working at my first job, in the marketing department of an indie film distribution company. We would occasionally luck out and get the rights to HBO documentaries. My then-boss told me that when it came time for the Emmys and Oscars to listen for Nevins’ name. She was always thanked by the winners—I read that she had sent Joe Berlinger an article about the West Memphis 3 which resulted in Paradise […]
Moonstruck
This review constitutes many firsts for me. Having fundamentally misunderstood CB9 and not posted a single review, this is my first time cannonball-ing in earnest. This was also my first ever audiobook, and it just so happened that we finished it on the 1st of the New Year. My intrepid fiancé and I were looking for a way to pass 12 hours in a car and I was asked to find an audiobook that was “Adventurous, but also Sci-fi and maybe mysterious.” No short order […]