Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A beautiful Marilyn biography

Unfinished: A Graphic Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Elizabeth Periale

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Full disclosure I received this from fellow Cannonballer Xoxoxoe as she frickin’ wrote/drew this. How cool is that?! All thoughts and opinions though are my own, but I’ll start with this one is definitely staying on my bookshelf. There’s not much to plot here, it’s a biography of Marilyn Monroe. We start with Norma Jean and work our way through to the end of her too short life. I really enjoy history, and especially Hollywood history (the podcast You Must Remember This is amazing y’all go listen to it!), so I knew a fair amount of Marilyn’s life story. I […]

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8/2/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

Who new books about FBI agents and attorneys could actually be fun?

Something About You, A Lot Like Love, About That Night by Julie James

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So over the first of our two big adventures the fam and I packed up and flew across the country for vacation. When traveling with an under two we quickly realised that we had a lot of spare evening time on our hands in very quiet hotel rooms. Enter the first four books of a series that I’ve already read the more recent ones. Something About You Cameron is an assistant US Attorney taking a much needed weekend away at a fancy hotel while her floors are being redone. Jake is an FBI agent finally back in Chicago, and his […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Assassination Vacation (literally! I listened to this on vacation)

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

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So I took 2 months off of reviewing. The BE clan decided to travel all over the country and world so there was hardly any time to update my reading spreadsheet, let alone write a review. But we’re back and finally all healthy so moments of free time are now available! Welcome to catch-up. And let’s start with an adorable history book about presidential assassinations! In Sarah Vowell’s vein of quirky, off kilter history books this one talks about the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. She spends the most time with Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth where I […]

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6/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

Kidnapped the Wrong… eh, I give it trying to be witty. It’s all just bad.

Kidnapped the Wrong Sister by Marie Kelly

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Guys, I was taking one for the team here. The cover was beyond stupid (and a little creepy, is that her front or her back?), the description was ridiculous, and it looked like review gold. And then I read it. And it’s bad, it’s definitely bad, but not burn it down rage inducing. It was clearly a vanity project gone horribly wrong. Our intrepid author thinks she’s a better writer than she is, and desperately needs someone, ANYONE, to proofread. Oh goodness, someone had to take the mantle on this one. I’m going to try to review this critically, but […]

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4/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

Trust Me, It’s Pretty Mediocre

Trust Me by Laura Florand

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Trust Me by Laura Florand is her latest in her Paris Nights series. The first in the series, All for You, was fine, the second, Chase Me, was silly and a heck of a lot of fun. Here she picks up in the almost immediate aftermath of Chase Me. Lina Farah is one of Paris’ top pastry chefs. “Jake Adams” is a “civilian” aka special ops fighting the war on terror in Paris. They meet due to the climax of the Chase Me, and their love story unfolds in the terrifying aftermath. And again I have so many causes for […]

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4/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Starry Eyes have worn off on this series

Star Crossed by Emma Barry & Genevieve Turner

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Well that was disappointing. For a series that started off pretty solid, followed up with two novellas ranging from excellent to solid, it now continues to go downhill. Star Crossed is the latest in the Fly Me to the Moon series, and it was by far the weakest one yet. Geri Brixton is an astronaut in training. Ish. She’s in training, but she never expects to actually fly a mission (leave that to the men). Beverly (who’s last name I’ve already forgotten) is an African American computer at fictional NASA. They meet because while Geri has the flying chops to […]

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4/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Earth based aka no astronauts really

Earth Bound by Emma Barry & Genevieve Turner

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Okay, so I have thoughts. A lot. Bear with me on this one. Dr. Charlie Eason is a mathematical genius. She is a leader of computer science in the 1960’s. She has decided that she wants her work to be worthwhile, beyond just making companies richer or whiling away in academia. She is hired by fake NASA (ASD) by Eugene Parsons, the head of engineering. Parsons got to be the head of engineering by demanding only the best from everyone, including himself. Competent is the highest praise he can give. And Charlie is more than competent. As I’ve explained many […]

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4/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Rounding out some character development for the series

Round Midnight by Emma Barry & Genevieve Turner

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So grabbing the next books in the Fly Me to the Moon series happened. The next two novellas come together as they’re about how two of the current astronauts in 1962 met and found their wives. I LOVE romance novellas. All the hero/heroine none of the superfluous fluff. A Midnight Clear Frances Dumfries is the daughter and now hostess for her admiral father who runs the Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1948. Joe Reynolds is an ambitious midshipman. Frances and Joe meet at a reception and one falls head over heels. A lot of convincing is required from then on. […]

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4/2/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

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