Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

To my great surprise and delight, the dog lives!

A Dark Lure by Loreth Anne White

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So spoiler alert, there’s an awesome dog in this book, and he doesn’t die! To me, that is very important information to have when reading a book. If it’s not important to you, then I really don’t want to know you 😁. A dog dying in a book really sours the whole experience for me. This book is about a serial killer and rapist who everyone thinks is dead. However, obviously he’s not. His last victim survived months and months of rape and torture. She was also pregnant during it all. On the last day of her captivity he set […]

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5/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

The Lost Prince

Why Kings Confess by C.S. Harris

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Regency England, January 1813: The mutilated body of a young French doctor found in an alley beside a mysterious, badly injured woman entangles Sebastian in the deadly riddle of the “Lost Dauphin,” the boy prince who disappeared during the darkest days of the French Revolution. In one of the poorest areas in London, two bodies are discovered – a woman, near death and a man, dead with his heart viciously removed.  Paul Gibson, a surgeon/anatomist, has stumbled across this gruesome scene as he was heading home.  When the identities are revealed, he turns to his old friend Viscount Devlin, Sebastian St. […]

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5/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

“Motherhood is hard. And you young moms put more pressure on yourselves than we ever did with your crafts and activities. Do you know what we called crafts back in the day? Chores.”

Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

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This is not a great piece of literature. Our grandchildren won’t be studying it in their Classic Lit classes. It is often silly and ridiculous and predictable and mostly eye-rollingly way beyond reality. And I enjoyed the hell out of it. If you aren’t familiar with Bunmi Laditan, she’s a “mommy blogger” and I follow her on Facebook. She makes me laugh because her house is a mess, she has laundry everywhere, her kids complain about what they eat, and she never seems to find time to take a shower. She’ll post a picture of legos on the carpet and […]

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5/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

The breath of longing

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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So much has been written about this book here on CBR, I almost had no choice but to read it. But I wasn’t in the right frame of mind when I finally got it from Overdrive. It took me days to get into it, and I read multiple books in between the early chapters. But I stuck with it because the premise was very good, and it has received near universal praise (both here, and in the broader literary world). Sticking with a book that hasn’t grabbed me just isn’t something I typically do. I’ve given up on books on […]

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5/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

There’s Alone, and Then There’s This

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

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Best for: Anyone looking for a profile of an interesting man doing something unthinkable to most of us. In a nutshell: Man lives alone in the woods for nearly three decades, uttering words to only one person. Gets arrested. Line that sticks with me: “He parked the car and put the keys on the center console. He had a tent and a backpack but no compass, no map. Without knowing where he was going, with no particular place in mind, he stepped into the trees and walked away.” (p 77) Why I chose it: NPR. Review: Christopher Knight was 20 […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

Lovers to friends to lovers

Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie

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4.5 stars Alice “Allie” McGuffey is the best radio producer WBBB in Tuttle, Ohio has ever had and it’s pretty much the unspoken truth that she’s the reason the radio station runs as well as it does. She loves her job and thrives on it, so when the radio station’s current Drivetime star, Mark King, who up until two months ago was her lover, tells her that she’s been moved to a different time slot, and from now on, he’ll be using Lisa, her former intern as his producer, Allie is not happy. It’s not like Bill Bonner, the radio […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:51 |

The plot of this book pretty much has everything…and then some

Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas

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Miss Wilhelmina “Lily” Lawson, also known in much of London as “Lawless Lily” is estranged from her family, but has been able to live independently due to a large inheritance from an eccentric aunt. When she’s not shocking society with her wild antics, she’s known to keep company with notorious gambling hell owner Derek Craven, and the most popular rumour is that she is his mistress. When Lily is visited by an old family friend, Zachary, Lord Stamford, she discovers that her gentle younger sister Penelope is engaged to marry the haughty Alex, Lord Wolverton, the Earl of Raiford. As […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Not Firefly

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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This seems to be a divisive book and I can see why. I had two problems with it: one was a matter of taste, the other was a tension and storytelling problem. The book features a motley crew manning a spaceship. This is where the Firefly comparisons come in, and people that enjoy it seem to see the connection beyond that. And this is where the taste issue comes up, I love Firefly and its brand of humor and quirk. I did not think this book was funny and the characters that were obviously meant as comic relief just annoyed […]

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5/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

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