Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Leedock

Disney World lover. Chewbacca hugger. Reader of books. Writer of words.

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…his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Wow. I’m not exactly sure where to start with this one. This was my book club’s pick for June and it is killing me that I will be out of town and unable to discuss it. Classmates at school, Marianne and Connell operate in completely different spheres. He hangs out with the popular kids, plays sports and is raised by a single mother who is a house cleaner. Marianne is mostly a loner, unpopular at school and lives with her wealthy widowed mother and brother. They see each other outside of school only because Connell’s mother cleans Marianne’s house. When […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

You can’t stop the tide

Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

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Beatriz Williams is one of my summer read go-tos. For some reason, I never got around to this book last summer when it came out. My mother passed her copy to me and it has been sitting on my non-library book TBR pile ever since. I finally cracked it open and it did not disappoint. Most of Williams’ books offer a little bit of mystery and a whole lot of star crossed loving. I’m more than fine with that. Her tendency to set things in two of my favorite decades: the roaring ’20’s and the 1950’s also checks some boxes […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

I am a liability.

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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I read and loved “The Hating Game” based on many great reviews from fellow Cannonballers. I snatched this one up as soon as I saw it on the new book shelves at the library. It’s the perfect summer book and I devoured it in a few sittings out in my garden. Darcy and her twin brother, Jamie “adopted” the boy who lived across the street, Tom, when they were eight years old. Their close friendship has lasted into adulthood with Tom providing a much needed buffer between the two fairly pig headed siblings. Out of undying gratitude for providing him […]

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6/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Your ignorance is their power

Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown

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The whole “you never really know someone” trope seems to be prevalent in a lot of popular fiction. I tend to blame “Gone Girl” because after I read that book I quickly became knee deep in similar books. Not all have been as well written or have successfully navigated the twisty turns which are the nature of this particular beast, but they can generally make for a good read. This book falls into that category, but it’s a little less psychological thriller and a little more relationship mystery. It wasn’t on my radar until it was floated as the next […]

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5/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

…the lovely cup of tea.

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

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5/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

How can one drowning rat save another?

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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I really try to write reviews shortly after I read the book. If I don’t, books often tend to quickly fall to the bottom of my memory well. I can tell you whether I liked a book or not, but that’s about it. I may have waited too long on this one, but here goes. Psychotherapist, Theo Faber, is just starting a new job at an institution for the criminally insane. From the beginning of the novel, he is a little fanboy about a particular patient there, Alicia Berenson, who was convicted of murdering her husband six years ago. Alicia, […]

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5/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

He had finished accumulating experiences and now he was shuffling around in the past, peeking inside boxes and then closing them quickly.

Extinctions by Josephine Wilson

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I struggle with books that don’t offer characters that I can root for. If a story is told through the voice of a particularly unlikable character it becomes even more difficult for me. Wilson’s novel is told from the perspective of a narcissistic widow who has little contact with his adult children, recently retired from his life’s work and moved into a retirement community. That Wilson could make this guy sympathetic is a credit to her writing. Frederick Lothian has an interesting perspective on things. His love of design and dreams of becoming an architect morph into a career as […]

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4/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

She was my other half when I had not realized I was incomplete.

A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

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As soon as Goodreads alerts me that a new Veronica Speedwell mystery is coming out, I immediately put in a request at the library. Thankfully, most of the folks that utilize my library either are ill informed about the publishing date of these books or don’t yet know about them. I can generally get my hands on a brand new copy immediately. This is both a good thing AND a bad thing. I get to read it sooner, but I tear through the book too quickly. It’s like the let down Christmas morning when all the weeks of preparation and […]

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4/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |


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