Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Classic's Quick Questions interview.)

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A Pocket Full of Rye

A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie

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Last book review of the day! Huzzah. This will also teach me to next time make sure my books are downloaded on my Kindle before going back to my hometown where WiFi is not a thing apparently. I was so mad at myself. Will get back to the other books I had planned to read for Halloween Bingo, but didn’t want to just not read anything to keep up with my planned reading schedule. Thank goodness I had so many King and Christie books already […]

Firestarter

Firestarter by Stephen King

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Weird, I don’t remember this book being so long when I read it as a kid. But this one is fairly long. I was happy to read about Charlie and her father trying to get away from the scientists who want to lock them up and study them. I always found this book to be a bit reminiscent of Dean Koontz in parts since King really doesn’t do the whole evil scientist thing much in his books. But this still works years later. I always […]

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

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It’s weird. Every time I go home to visit (I am from PA) I end up reading a lot of Stephen King books. I read this one when it first came out, but realized I never posted a review of it. This weekend was dark and rainy and cloudy and it was a perfect setting to read about Trisha and her adventures lost in the woods on the Appalachian Trail. I always wonder what happened next with Trisha and her family. I can guess, but […]

Growing Things and Other Stories

Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

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At this point everyone who reads my reviews should know I do an overall rating for the collection, with individual ratings for the stories. So here we go! “Growing Things”-(3 stars)-This follows Merry from “A Head Full of Ghosts”. I didn’t find this scary honestly, and just kind of went well okay. “Swim Wants to Know if It’s As Bad As Swim Thinks”-(3 stars)-I honestly had to read more about what this even was since the title confused me. For those who don’t know, SWIM […]

Christmas on the Island

Christmas on the Island by Jenny Colgan

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Not too much to say about this one. I just didn’t enjoy it. It’s not a bad book, but the whole series is just getting a bit samey. I am also not a fan of Joel at all at this point. I understand he had a hard childhood, but at this point it’s just all about him at all times and not Flora. And I don’t understand why she wants to be with him outside of the supposed hot sex they have all the time. […]

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

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Updated: September 26, 2022: Seriously this is just the best whodunit. The ending is always a smack to the face because you don’t see it coming. I am always shocked no one thinks of this one as the best Hercule Poirot out there. I see most people focusing on Murder on the Orient Express, which is definitely really good, but it was this one that had me going what in the world while reading. I also loved going back to re-read parts of this book […]



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