kfishgirl

I love to read. I'm usually reading at least 3 books at a time. They're not all good... some are really bad. I have trouble not finishing books though. Now CBR has doubled down on that trouble, because I want to get credit for reading the bad ones too!

kfishgirl's Reviews:

When you’re punished, you get bumped to the late show

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December 31, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This book is somehow the beginning of a series. If you ever read a review of mind before you know that I always start series in the middle, so it’s weird that I started this one of the beginning. Anyway, This 1st book is about detective Renee Ballard, who was placed on the night shift, which is where the police officers go when they’ve misbehaved. Unfortunately for rene, she didn’t actually misbehave. She just accused her supervising officer of sexual harassment, and nobody backed her up. She’s a good cop stuck on the night shift, and she never gets to […]

12/31/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:62 |

More Gideon and Sirius

Gideon's Rescue (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 4) by Alan Russell

December 29, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

This is the fourth book in the Gideon and Sirius series. I believe I’ve read all four of them in this current Cannonball. After reading to the end, the author said he’s got at least two more books in the works. Hopefully I’ll get to read and review them for CBR11! In this book, Gideon ends up working about three cases at once. They all kind of sneak up on him while he’s going about his life. He’s volunteering at Angie’s Rescue (or Heather’s Rescue, I can’t remember). The woman he saved in one of the previous books (Heather) opened […]

12/29/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:60 |

I think I’ve read this book at least four times

The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike

December 28, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

The Season of Passage is one of my favorite books from my teen years. I had always loved Christopher Pike as a teen, because he felt a little more sophisticated than R.L.Stine, who was the other “horror” author for my age group. I guess I probably loved this book from the beginning because the main character’s name is Lauren, which is also my name. It’s just a great book overall though. You get to know the characters enough to care about them before anyone is put in peril, which I appreciate it. Also, there’s a huge horror component along with […]

12/28/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:59 |

End of CBR10 panic post!!!

Only the Rain, Dead Even by Randall Silvis, Brad Meltzer

December 28, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So my December has been suuuper crazy. Work is insane, and I’ve been trying to fit in reading with all the extra working I’ve been doing. I’ve been falling asleep at night without reading, which is not normal for me. Anyway, even when I have finished books, I haven’t had the time or energy to review them! I write all day at work (nothing fun or exciting), so sometimes it’s hard to write these reviews after long days of work. That’s why I’m shoving these two books together. These two books are semi similar in that the main couples don’t […]

12/28/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:58 |

Animals make us human

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

November 30, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

cbr10bingo… Backlog BINGO #2 I got this on my Kindle on March 20, 2013. That’s over five years ago. I think it’s the first Kindle book I ever bought? I don’t know why it took me so long to read it. I guess I heard some stuff about how Temple Grandin was involved in helping to create humane slaughter practices, and I didn’t want to read about animal slaughter, even if it was humane. It turns out that only small parts of a few chapters talk about human slaughter, and none of it is graphic. Most of what Ms. Grandin talks […]

11/30/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:56 |

I don’t want to go into those Dark Places either

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

November 30, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

cbr10bingo…White Whale I accidentally bought this on my Kindle on March 6, 2015. I don’t think I had even read Gone Girl yet at that point, but I think I had heard about Ms. Flynn. This has been on my “to read” list for a while now, so I’m calling it my White Whale. Like I said above, I have the Kindle version, but I wasn’t reading it, and I’m reading another book on my Kindle currently, so I downloaded the audiobook version and I listened to it in my car. This story is really messed up. We meet Libby Day, […]

11/30/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:55 |

I’m still hoping he hears that cell door slamming behind him, and I’m hoping she somehow does too…

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

November 28, 2018 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

cbr10bingo…Cannonballer Says I remember hearing or reading something about this book back in April of this year, because that’s when aggregate DNA from family tree / ancestry sites matched the killer’s DNA to an actual person. I’ve always been intrigued by serial killers, and I’ve been reading true crime books since high school. That’s really what drew me in, Michelle partially wrote this book, then passed away, then her husband and another author finished it, it was released, and then through a totally different process, he was caught. I know that once I heard about the book, I went to […]

11/28/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Somebody wanted to kill the whole LAPD bomb squad

The Bomb Maker by Thomas Perry

November 9, 2018 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

cbr10bingo… Brain Candy Ok so this book is about a bomb maker who’s planting bombs throughout Los Angeles in the hopes of killing bomb squad technicians. How is this brain candy you ask? Well, to me building a bomb, and/or diffusing a bomb is escapism. I will never do either in my life, and hopefully never even see one, so it doesn’t get more escapy than that! I read the audiobook version of this book. At first, I almost laughed out loud at the guy’s voice, and I didn’t think I was going to be able to finish the book. […]

11/9/2018 kfishgirl's CBR10 Review No:53 |

Malin on On one of the covers it says “you will be charmed” but I was not charmed, not at all.If you want enjoyable, yet quite smutty romance, off the top of my head I would recommend Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai (the...
janet snakehole on I don’t want to review this book.Loved this review. I like Rob Delaney's twitter, which does not necessarily mean I would enjoy a full book by him. I found this out...
janet snakehole on White Feminism: A NovelGood review! As a white feminist lady I was intrigued by this book but skeptical of its relevance. Your review confirmed pretty much what I...
Scootsa1000 on Just Because It’s Brief Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t PainfulA+ use of Jack Tripper.
Scootsa1000 on You, Sir, Are No Colin FirthI read this ages ago, maybe for CBR3. Hands down, the worst Austen-related book I’ve ever come across. Everyone was awful and the sex scenes...