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In my walking around life, I miss my old, blind pug (the Ancient Mariner), help amazing college students become teachers, and tie an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: esmemoria's Quick Questions interview.)

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Lesser but Diverting Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a lightweight story of thwarted love and slow burn longing. The heroine, Anne, is a sensible, gentle and overlooked woman with a somewhat difficult family. Her father is a spendthrift and has the family move out of their home in order to let it to well paying renters. One of her sisters is unmarried, cold and indifferent to Anne, while the other is married and a self centered hypochondriac. The book delves into the broken love relationship almost right away. It […]

Solid Thriller

The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

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Thanks to the lovely Bibliophile, I was gifted The Night Shift by Alex Finlay from my wish list for the holiday book exchange. It was a quick read that I generally enjoyed. In 1999, a brutal massacre takes place at a Blockbuster video store. Three employees and their manager are stabbed to death, with one survivor, Ella. While the police have a suspect, he is released for lack of evidence and then disappears. Ella goes on to be a therapist, but has a troubled lifestyle […]

I Love to Love a Book

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

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There are a lot of Booktok videos where a person just holds up a book and says it’s fantastic, without providing any details to lure one into reading it. They love it so much they are at a loss for details. That is how I feel writing this review, but I have overcome my dazzle to set down the details of this marvelous book. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo is the final book in the Six of Crows duology, the first book of which I […]

A Poirot without Poirot

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

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I thought I had read every Agatha Christie there is, but I came across one I hadn’t read (or don’t remember having read): The Hollow. It is a Hercule Poirot novel, but he hardly features in the story at all. He appears a few times, including the end, but the book really centers on the characters/suspects. Lady Lucy Angkatell and her husband Lord Henry have an estate called the Hollow. At a weekend gathering (it’s always a weekend gathering, isn’t it?), an unfaithful doctor is […]

Absurd and Convoluted

Passenger 23 by Sebastian Fitzek

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Content warning for suicide and SA. I hated this book. If it wasn’t such a fast read, I probably would have DNF’d it. It’s a thriller set on a cruise ship with so many threads I could barely keep track of everything. There is the investigator trained in psychology whose wife was on the ship in earlier days and threw her young son overboard, following him soon after. When the investigator ends up investigating a call from the same ship, he finds out once he’s […]



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