As my CBR handle suggests, I like coffee shops, both for the lattes and the atmosphere. So when I was in Chicago recently, I wanted to try out one of the trendy places as my touristy thing. At Intelligentsia Coffee, I saw this book for sale. I didn’t buy it then. I saw the same book a few days later, this time in paperback, for sale at a publisher exhibit. I didn’t buy it then. I did however, upon my return home, acquire said book […]
Biography/Memoir
I joined the crowd
I received this book for Christmas after having seen a lot of hype around it on various sites. I tend to read mostly fiction and would not likely have bought this book for myself. Reading it, though, I found myself wondering how much of this memoir could be real. Don’t get me wrong- I absolutely believe that Tara Westover lived through the events of the book. I believe the off-grid existence, and the doomsday prepping, and the abuse. What I had trouble reconciling myself to […]
It’s a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.
Hi! This is my first Cannonball book. I hope it doesn’t suck and isn’t all about me, but humor me and let me start briefly from that standpoint: I’m a Drew Magary fan. Of his posts from Deadspin. I even listen to the Deadcast podcast because he hosts it and his frat boy like dulcet tones put me to a contented sleep. I think he’s funny. (I think he’s funny?! Oh goodness, this is going to be a review as if Ron Swanson wrote it.) I’ve never […]
Sex and Travel (Emphasis on the Sex)
Wanderlust is Elizabeth Eaves’ memoir of her travels from her late teen years to her mid-30s, and like any travel memoir it suffers somewhat from the delusions of grandeur of its main character/author. The friend who lent it to me did so with the disclaimer that, “she’s a bit pretentious, but aren’t all travel writers? I think you have to be in order to think that other people are going to be interested in your travel diary.” My friend is not wrong. I love to […]