Lauren Oliver is sort of my Cannonball nemesis. I adored her first book, Before I Fall, but have been disappointed ever since, and my disappointment is somewhat well documented. I disliked her Delirium trilogy (yet kept reading). I didn’t care for Rooms, and Panic was just ok. But for seem reason, I … [Read more]
Sorely Lacking Keanu Reeves. One Star.
The year is 1897 and Bram Stoker is a bored businessmen who boosts his income by writing pulpy novels. The most famous of these, simply titled Dracula, was not an immediate hit, but would turn out to define Stoker’s legacy. This isn’t entirely undeserved, but outside of its snug historical pocket … [Read more]
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
Educated is a force of nature. There is very little I can say here that hasn't been said already, and probably more eloquently, but Tara Westover's memoir about growing up the daughter of Mormon survivalists in Idaho was one of the best books I read in 2019. Oh, it is only January 6th? Nah, I stand … [Read more]
“[We’ll] never know how much of this book the squirrel wrote.”—Mindy Kaling
I received My Squirrel Days from the lovely emmalita during our Cannonball gift exchange. I was very excited because my library did not have Kimmy Schmidt's Ellie Kemper's memoir available to borrow and I must read all memoirs written by people with more than 50,000 Twitter followers (edit: … [Read more]