Cannonball Read 18

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40 years old. New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Who’s to Blame?

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

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The five-member Cassidy-Shaw family is on their way to eldest son Charlie’s last high school lacrosse tournament when their AI-assisted minivan becomes involved in a fatal car accident with another vehicle. Both fatalities are in the other vehicle, but the Cassidy-Shaws are far from unscathed. The accident prompts one big question: who is responsible? Charlie was technically in the driver’s seat, but the AI system was in control, theoretically. Charlie’s father Noah, a corporate lawyer, was sitting up front with him, but he was busy […]

Needs More Claude Rains

The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong

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All I knew about this book before picking it up was that it had been adapted into a movie starring Claude Rains. I caught part of that movie on TCM one time and it looked intriguing so I thought I would check out the book. However, the novel is unfortunately really a very silly little thriller, reliant on extreme contrivances and characters behaving stupidly. The setup is this: Francis and Jane are a nephew and aunt of about the same age who are mourning the […]

The Summer of Sam, Ed, and Reggie

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mahler

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Jonathan Mahler’s Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is Burning is an unusual work of non-fiction, blending sports, news, culture, and politics into a fairly comprehensive narrative of life in New York City in the year 1977. It was a dark time in the city. Years of excessive spending on social programs had the city teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, and despite promises made by newly-elected President Jimmy Carter, help was not on the way. It was an election year in the city, with Mayor Abe […]

Diary of a Mad Tradwife

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

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First and foremost, we must give credit where credit is due. Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear has a premise that must have other authors fuming with jealousy. Her protagonist, Natalie Heller Mills, is a housewife and mother on a remote ranch who posts “tradwife” content on social media, pretending to be the ideal American mother while playing down the fact that she has two nannies and a lot of family money from her in-laws to help. One day, she wakes up in what feels like an alternate […]

Everybody Wants to Be Le Chat

To Catch a Thief by David Dodge

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To Catch a Thief is the story of John Robie, an American expatriate much accustomed to life in France. A trained acrobat, he made a living before the war as a notorious jewel thief who came to be known in the newspapers as “Le Chat.” After eventually slipping up and getting caught, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Fate intervenes in the form of the German army, who release all the inmates in a bid to inculcate chaos in the […]

Verity

Verity by Colleen Hoover

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There are two reasons I opted to spend a few hours of my one precious life reading a Colleen Hoover novel. The first is the upcoming film adaptation starring Dakota Johnson and, more importantly, Anne Hathaway. (I am violating my longstanding ban on “Now a Major Motion Picture” cover for Hathaway.) The second reason is that I have heard from a few different people that Verity is the Colleen Hoover novel that even people who hate Colleen Hoover think is good. That intrigued me. I […]



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