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My Fifth Cannonball! I'm going full Cannonball this year! Last year was a total mulligan. I read a lot, but I just did not have the spoons for reviews. The plan is to get back in the game this year.

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If I Had a Dollar for Every Dead Guy I Found In My Tub…

Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

February 7, 2020 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Lord Peter Wimsey is one of those characters that just sort of kept popping up in random places in my life. I think if you are at all into mystery novels you may have had a similar experience. For whatever reason, however, I never actually read one. So, when I hit a point where I didn’t have a book on deck I went to my handy library app and looked up the first one. I really loved it, but it was not at all what […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Dorothy L. Sayers, Fiction, mystery, Whose Body

lumenatrix's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Dorothy L. Sayers, Fiction, mystery, Whose Body ·
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

December 18, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Why would a woman kill two children who, by all accounts, she adores? I mean, being a Nanny is hard, but, especially when you are working for such a fine family… who does that? There is a lot of good in this book even if, at the end of the day it really wasn’t my favorite. I was on board up until the last third. I think part of it was that Slimani had basically built up a situation that was high stakes enough that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Fiction, Leila Slimani, the perfect nanny

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Fiction, Leila Slimani, the perfect nanny ·
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Did You Know Graham Norton Was Also a Novelist?

A Keeper by Graham Norton

October 31, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

I had no idea that Graham Norton was a novelist until I saw him on Colbert talking about his new book. I like Graham Norton, so I added the book to my TBR pile (also known as my library Hold list). I had zero expectations going in, he didn’t give much away plot-wise on the chat show, so I had no idea what to expect. I enjoyed it. It isn’t the most amazing book ever, but it’s a quick read and it held my attention […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: A Keeper, cbrbingo11, Fiction, Graham Norton, mystery

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: A Keeper, cbrbingo11, Fiction, Graham Norton, mystery ·
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My Pen is Dry, The Door is Open, and Something is Waiting

Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry

October 30, 2019 by lumenatrix 1 Comment

This is a modern novel that strikes the perfect feeling of a Gothic novel in the style of Poe or Shelly. It is eerie and creepy with a ton of atmosphere and most of the fear and horror coming from not jump scares, but just that feeling that something is going to happen. Also, the monster is the humans. It’s always the humans… but not always int he way you think. Fair warning, I don’t give any major spoilers ahead, but this is a very […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #history, cbrbingo11, Gothic Horror, melmoth, mysteries, Sarah Perry

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #history, cbrbingo11, Gothic Horror, melmoth, mysteries, Sarah Perry ·
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

October 9, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Double Bingo! (2nd Row Down, Third Across- in Red… Blood Red… Mwahahaha) OK, I loved these books in school, loooovvved them. I must have read all three 5 or six times each. So, for the Back to School Square I decided to give the first one a re-read when I found it in my local used book store. This book gets four stars because it is a really good collection of American folk lore, shoot, it gets one whole star from me just for the […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: alvin schwartz, cbrbingo11, Ghost Stories, scary stories to tell in the dark, school

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: alvin schwartz, cbrbingo11, Ghost Stories, scary stories to tell in the dark, school ·
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A Long, Strange Trip

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

October 8, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

BINGO!!!!! Woo hoo! I am really happy I made my first Bingo with this book, because I loved it. This book is so damn good I”m having trouble figuring out what to say other than, this book is so great! You should read it! George Washington Black is a slave on the Faith Plantation in Barbados. He lives in a shack with Big Kit and works in the sugar fields. When the plantation owner dies, his cousin Erasmus Wilde takes over and an already pretty […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbrbingo11, Esi Edugyan, Fiction, washington black

lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbrbingo11, Esi Edugyan, Fiction, washington black ·
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