Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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“Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there my friend. It is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things.” Got that?

Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott

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cbr17bingo Culture Rather an odd duck, this one.  Some legal jibber-jabber in the frontpiece seems to indicate that this book was not intended to be sold in the US, yet I bought it at the UCLA bookstore.  Hmm.  Anyway. First, let me digress.  I grew up in a small town with a small library, and there really was no other source of books for me other than that, and my Mom’s Book-of-the-Month Club, when she could afford it.  So imagine my thrill, when I started […]

Yeah no, Just no.

The Suicides by Antonio di Benedetto

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  cbr17bingo white Somewhere, while I was reading this, I encountered a review of this book that praised it for its ironic lightheartedness.  Say what?  Oh hell no. The author is an Argentinian who was imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship of the 1970s.  This book, written in 1969, a product of a time when Argentinian citizens were being disappeared off the streets and dropped out of planes (disturbingly familiar.)  The narrator, a reporter, has been assigned the task of writing about three unrelated […]

Never mind Ms O’Leary’s Cow

The Fifth Floor by Micheal Harvey

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cbrbingo   cbrbingo17 red cbrbingo17 Red Michael Kelly, ex-cop and private investigator, is looking for a little information, and sources don’t get better than Fred Jacobs of the tribune.  Let’s meet Fred. Fred was six feet two and weighed slightly less than your average house cat.  He was chasing sixty with . . . a head of black hair the color and consistency of shoe leather. . . .  Fred was a life-long bachelor.  Suffice it to say, he didn’t get a lot of chicks.  […]

Brainwarp Time

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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cbr17bingo Rec’d I was gifted and recommended this book by someone who told me there would be surprises and not all was as it would appear to be.  So I started reading it carefully, trying to put together the pieces, but it then started to be clear that I was being misdirected left and right. We start off with four strangers in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library, sharing a table and peacefully minding their own business, when there is a sudden scream […]

Real Housewives of Fort Benning

The Wives: A Memoir by Simone Gorrindo

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cbr17bingo Purple Simone is a New Yorker who has just landed her dream job, as an editor.  And now maybe she will have some time to devote to her own writing projects, too.  Her husband, on the other hand, has different plans.  He has joined an elite Army combat unit, and is looking forward to doing his share by shipping out to Afghanistan.  But it’s all good, right, because she can work from home, at whatever Army base home ends up being.  All right, let’s […]

Nobody Asked the Zebra

Bad Little Falls by Paul Doiron

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cbr17 B Oh, look.  Here’s another series I have gotten sucked into.  Fortunately, it started about 15 years ago, so I’ve got plenty more coming up to enjoy.  And unlike my precious Perry Mason, these all seem to be available at my local library, so that’s a good thing. Well, it looks like Mike Bowditch, Maine game warden, has been sent into exile for the crime of not paying much attention to his bosses, and having the uncanny ability to turn over murders in the […]



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