Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A mystery for music nerds :)

Bellwether Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

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 This book is the most recent addition to my collection that I have purchased based solely on CBR reviews.  I’ve learned that when a book keeps popping up here, it’s for good reason and y’all can be trusted to recommend some good stuff! Bellweather Rhapsody is set in an aging hotel in upstate New York during an annual high school music festival. Fifteen years ago there was a murder-suicide in room 712, and this year a girl has gone missing from that same room. It’s part mystery, part comedy, part coming-of age story.  The characters are colourful and complicated – […]

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9/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

Well that was….disturbing…

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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 Going into this book, I knew of the general controversy surrounding it, but wasn’t really familiar with the specific plot details.  But I picked it up in a used book store on a whim because I was overdue for a classic, and I have a thing for Russian authors and literature (although I was disappointed that this didn’t actually take place IN Russia). I’m sure most people know the general gist of this book – middle aged man falls in love with a young girl.  And ya, it’s unsettling.  Humbert is smitten with Lolita (a “nymphet”), and marries her mother […]

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9/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

Why with the ridiculous female protagonist? WHY?

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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 I always feel torn about books like this one.  There are so many flaws, and yet, I still sorta enjoyed it. The main character, Lo, is a travel journalist who is setting out on the maiden voyage of a luxury yacht, headed to view the Northern Lights in Scandinavia.  Days before leaving on the trip, her apartment is burgled while she is home, she has a huge fight with her boyfriend, and is generally on edge. The first night on the boat, she hears a commotion in the room next to hers (a room where she had earlier spoken with […]

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8/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Short and satisfying beach read

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

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 Picked this up off a paperback sale rack when I was looking for a light, easy, vacation read – and it didn’t disappoint. Cecilia accidentally stumbles upon a sealed envelope in her attic – addressed to her by her husband, with the instructions to only open it after his death.  The problem is that her husband is very much alive, and when she asks him about it, it is very clear that he doesn’t want her to open it.   Naturally she does, and discovers a secret that will forever change their lives, as well as the lives of so […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

I warned them that I don’t like to cry…

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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 I read this book for a book club that I’m a part of.  When we voted on our July selection, I deliberately did not cast mine for this book.  Because I just KNEW.  I could tell from the description that it was one of those books that was going to make me cry.  Apparently this is something that lots of people enjoy however, and I was outvoted. The titular character is a middle-aged Swedish man named Ove, who has lost his wife and his job in the span of six months.  As his life revolved around the love of Sonja, […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one….

The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad #2 by Tana French

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 Ok…after wanting to throw book #1 across the room multiple times, this was a bit of an improvement. It is not so much a sequel, as it is a spinoff, which was interesting.  It didn’t resolve any of my questions from book 1, but at least I didn’t have to deal with the biggest asshole character ever written anymore. The premise in this book is so unbelievable that I rolled my eyes more than once, because, COME ON. Our detective is called to a murder seen where the victim is her doppelgänger, and is using the assumed name that she […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

I WANT TO PUNCH THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK IN THE TEETH.

In The Woods by Tana French

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 Oh sweet mother, did this book ever frustrate me. On one hand, the premise is interesting – a girl shows up murdered in a forest; the lead detective on the case was involved in the suspicious disappearance of two of his friends when he was a child – in the exact same forest.  Dun dun duuuunnnnn….  Who killed this girl? What happened to his friends all those years ago? Are the two cases related? 608 PAGES LATER AND ONLY ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. WTF. The modern day case was fine, a somewhat predictable and sorta infuriating ending, but […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

A book that I purchased solely based on judging it’s cover.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

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 I’m so stereotypically Canadian, that I picked this up because of the hockey game on the cover.  True story.  #sorrynotsorry Beartown is a small rural village (in what I’m assuming is Sweden, although I don’t think it ever specified) that is slowly dying.  Their only hope for economic revival is their junior hockey team – a championship win will secure them as the site for a new elite hockey academy which will bring people and businesses back to the area. But before that final game, at a drunken teenage party, the star player rapes the coach’s daughter.  What follows is […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

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