I guess it is only fitting that I complete my Cannonball on a book that I first learned of from a Cannonball review. Yea! I can’t remember who now, but someone’s review convinced me that I should add The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008) by E. Lockhart to my queue. Frankie is starting her Sophomore year at Alabaster Preparatory Academy, an elite boarding school. The summer has changed her from a scrawny girl with frizzy hair to someone the boys are suddenly noticing. It doesn’t […]
The final book in the Rangers’ trilogy
Pamela Clare’s “Ranger”series has become something of a guilty pleasure for me. I read the first book, Surrender, almost by accident. Momentum carried me through Untamed, which I enjoyed even more. However, Defiant (2012) wasn’t available on Kindle at my library. Or available on Kindle at all, which isn’t a great sign. But it was too late. I love romantic adventures with protective (yet modern and understanding) heroes. I also like to finish what I start, and I needed to know the story of the youngest brother. Connor […]
Know Your Enemy
Like most people, I find pretty much everything about cancer terrifying. It doesn’t help that I’ve chosen a profession [Firefighter] that has all kinds of increased rates of cancer. Most of us at work don’t even like to talk about it because it reminds us that the unknown and uncontrollable might hit us at anytime. So you might wonder why I chose to read The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Every once in a while I like to delve […]
A little too much rape in this romance
This one didn’t do much for me. After the dark and disturbing Into the Woods, I was ready for something, fun, light, and entertaining. It was definitely time for a romance novel, but there wasn’t much immediately available at the library. So, I found Highlander Most Wanted (2013) by Maya Banks. I’d never read anything by Banks, but it looked like she’d written a lot of books, so I assumed she must have figured out what she was doing. Apparently she’s also written a lot of […]
Murder in the Woods
I’ve seen reviews of In the Woods (2007) by Tana French, and they’ve pretty much all been positive, so I’ve had it on my to-read list for a while. When I finally got around to reading it, I really had no idea what to expect. The title is so similar to the musical Into the Woods, that I was half expecting a weird fairy tale. Yeah, not so much. Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox are the unlikely, but very effective, partners on the Dublin Murder Squad. […]
Dating in the new millenium
I was happy when my book club decided to read Modern Romance (2015) by Aziz Ansari because it had already been on my library wait list for months. I had to do some maneuvering to pick it up before our meeting, but I was looking forward to reading it. I knew Aziz Ansari was a comedian from Parks and Rec, but I had never seen his stand-up and was not too familiar with him. I still expected great things, though, because comedians often write entertaining, surprisingly […]
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