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A lady reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. I believe in community, and the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, sharing, talking, and saying Fuck You to cancer.

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A Good Road Trip Love Story

The Escape (The Survivors' Club #3) by Mary Balogh

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I have a library hold backlog gathering on my kitchen table, so I decided best plan was to knock out a few quick reads and hopefully catch up. Part of the backlog is a few of The Survivors’ Club books by Mary Balogh. I enjoyed The Proposal and The Arrangement earlier this year and had immediately put holds on the rest of the series. In typical me fashion I was nervous about the next book, The Escape, when I wrote my review for The Arrangement (as I was nervous about the focus of The Arrangement when I finished The Proposal) […]

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12/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

Strike Re-read Completed, Bring on Book Four

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

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Because my brain doesn’t seem to hold onto the details of mystery books the story is often new to me again. This time I didn’t have that experience though, I had already binged the BBC adaptation of the books, but I still thoroughly enjoyed my time with the characters. Once again Career of Evil is Rowling writing an intricate, but not unsolvable, mystery where the clues are right there in front of you, and even if you don’t catch the signs along the way, the resolution make sense after the big reveal.  This story dials down its setting and pace […]

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12/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

“There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.” (CBR10Bingo Blackout!)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I apologize now, this review will not really be a review. It is more a love letter to our community here at Cannonball Read. Of the ten books we had to choose from for So Popular, I had read most, but not all. The ones I haven’t read I don’t care to (looking at you, Divergent) so I was thinking about re-reading Eleanor & Park to go with last year’s re-read of Attachments or maybe The Martian to see if I still had a book crush on Mark Watney. I wrote up my #cbr10bingo list with a couple options and […]

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11/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

Murderbot is the depressed and anxious android you’ve always needed. (CBR10 Bingo 10 & 11)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Bless Cannonball Read, praise be for friends who you know share a similar taste in books, and let the world rejoice for Murderbot. Because November is a busy time here at Cannonball Read (I still have half the assignment emails for Book Exchange to send out) I’ll be using a slightly modified plot summary from Goodreads: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are (required to be) accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder (you’re shocked, […]

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11/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

A Middling Murder Mystery (BINGO #9!)

Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (author), Bernard Scudder (translator)

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Last Rituals is the first in series focusing on Thóra Guðmundsdóttir, Icelandic lawyer and divorced mother of two. We are introduced to Thóra following the discovery of the body of a young German student Harald Guntlieb at a university in Reykjavík, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police wasted no time in making an arrest, but the victim’s family isn’t convinced that they have the right person. They ask Thóra to investigate on the recommendation of her old professor and it isn’t long before the deceased’s obsession with Iceland’s grisly history of torture, execution, and […]

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11/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

Bringing the Jackaby Series to a Close (Bingo #8)

The Dire King by William Ritter

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While I have a couple of series underway, there was only one where the final book was the only one I had left to read, so the This Is The End square was a simple choice. The Jackaby series is comprised of four books, Jackaby, The Beastly Bones, Ghostly Echoes, and The Dire King. I have absolutely enjoyed my time with the series over the past few years, but the fourth book was unfortunately the weakest. The Dire King continues the story of the Seelie and Unseelie War that is enveloping New Fiddleham. Abagail,  an independent, self-assured, feminist, and delightfully […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

Holiday Book Exchange Sign-up: the best excuse all year to buy a book!

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Book Exchange 2018 Sign-Up is now Closed. Keep an eye out for everyone’s gift posts and your assignment emails!   The time has come to bring our Tenth Anniversary year to a close, what better excuse can there be for a Holiday Book Exchange? For the past several years we’ve had a completely voluntary Book Exchange and it is my pleasure to handle the organizational components for us again. It’s a lovely part of our community here at CBR and a great way to get to know a fellow Cannonballer a little bit better. It’s also a great excuse to share […]

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11/13/2018

May We Be the Fortunate Ones (Bingo #6 & 7)

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (author), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)

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It took me a long time to read Daughter of Fortune. By some cosmic joke, which the reading gods seem to enjoy, I had paced my book choices in such a way that this book overlapped with Jane Eyre and that is quite a lot of heavy book to process all at once. What it did for me (besides slow me down a bit) was provide an opportunity to compare and contrast two different powerhouse women writers writing about the self-determination of their female leads. Isabel Allende is a white whale author for me. I first tackled her The House […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |


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