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 Murder is Announced

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

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Updated review September 13, 2022: Wow. I always say this one really does hit all the feels, at least it did for me on why and how I became such a fan of Miss Marple. This book nicely sets the stage for a murder and then Miss Marple comes in after meeting inspector Craddock at a lunch with Sir Henry Clithering. Miss Marple just knows something is off about the whole set up a party being announced and a man is then murdered after attempting […]

Mothered

Mothered by Zoje Stage

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Great horror/thrilled by Stage. I loved the set-up of this, several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, a woman’s life (Grace) seems to be coming apart, and things go from bad to worse when her mother (Jackie) moves in. Only reason why I didn’t give this 5 stars was that the flow of the book. I think when the dreams started coming hard and fast you weren’t given enough […]

Horrorstor

Horrostor by Grady Hendrix

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This was a great little send up of not only haunted places, haunted buildings, and ghosts, it was done in a clever way by having it happen in the American version of a lesser IKEA. I ended up liking all of the characters very much and really liked the backstory on the site of the Orsk furniture store. The main reason why I didn’t give this one 5 stars is that the book started to drag after a while and also thought the ending was […]

Garden Spells

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

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Updated review: September 12, 2022 I really enjoyed this re-read. I didn’t love the second book in the series as much, but this first one still gives me all the feels. Allen does such a great job of depicting the two sisters and I loved all of the people who lived in Bascom and the “gifts” so many had.  Original review: Funny, I love this book, but honestly don’t remember the last time I read it. After finishing “Garden Spells” I went and read book […]

Other Birds

Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

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Such a shame. I have been waiting on a new Sarah Addison Allen book for years. I absolutely love her older books and this one just didn’t do it for me. Somehow in her other books she’s always been able to transport me to a fictional town where it seemed magic leaked around the edges. Instead this book seems to be missing that. Maybe because the grief in these pages just crowded out everything else. And I think that due to that I wasn’t able […]

Amongst Our Weapons

Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

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I think it’s time for me to put a pin in this series. I haven’t enjoyed it for a while now and the book seems to be signaling some characters are going to be gone in a few. I just have zero interest to keep reading about Peter and Beverly and everything else going on in London that mere mortals don’t know about anymore. It’s not a bad book, just a very boring one. It goes on forever it feels like. And we still have […]



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