I’m really excited to announce that for the first time in I don’t know how long, I finished my book club’s selection well before our monthly meeting. Yes, the book in question is really just a collection of blog entries that are mostly illustrations, and I read it in two hours at the beach this weekend, but whatever. Yay me! Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh is a collection of entries from her blog of the same name. Allie is a wonderfully flawed young […]
Are You Kidding Me, Another One?
There’s a chance that if you’re reading this review, you might not be an active participant in Cannonball Read 6. Maybe you didn’t sign up, unsure of whether or not you could participate to your satisfaction, or you missed the deadline, or you just wanted to cheerlead from the sidelines, or any other number of reasonable and perfectly fine reasons. Nonetheless, you could always try to read fifty two Cannonball Read reviews this year! In fact, you might even be able to read fifty two […]
Brought to you in living color
You’ve probably already seen a review of Hyperbole and a Half. Cannonball Read 6 already has four, and Cannonball Read 5 had a few as well. But, from what I can tell, I’m the first to review it who only has a passing knowledge of Allie Brosh’s blog of the same name. I mean, I was aware of it. I had read about the Alots (who do not feature in the book), the helper dog and the simple dog, and about Brosh’s bout with depression. […]
Read ALL THE PAGES!
FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative – like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it – but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things […]