Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Tracy

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Just Another Stephanie Plum Novel

Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

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In this 4th book of the series, Stephanie Plum has some competition. Her nemesis, Joyce Barnhardt, who had slept with Stephanie’s now-ex husband before he had “ex” in front of the title, has been hired by Stephanie’s cousin Vinnie to work as another bounty hunter. At first this angers Stephanie only because Joyce is her nemesis. However, later on Joyce becomes a bigger problem when she is assigned to the case that Stephanie is on. The FTA (failure to appear) that Stephanie is after this time is Maxine. She was arrested for stealing her boyfriend’s car. After missing her court […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Two (Reviews) for the Dough

Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

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I thought I’d keep going with the Stephanie Plum series, til I either get bored and need a break or finish up all the ones I have. For the uninitiated, Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series is about, you guessed it, Stephanie Plum, a divorcee who loses her job and goes to work for her cousin as a bounty hunter. She pretty consistently gets in over her head, ends up in danger or injured at various times, and as far as I can recall, she never really gets the hang of the job but does keep getting lucky at it. In Two […]

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5/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

If Only It Could Magically Make Me Want to Clean

Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman

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I purchased this book immediately after reading the review by sistercoyote. I was intrigued by the premise, and it lived up to the hype. Author Rachel Hoffman recognizes that a lot of cleaning and organizational books/magazines/websites create unrealistic expectations that can leave people feeling like a failure when their efforts don’t turn out the same or they can’t even put in the effort. She makes a point of addressing situations that these other sources don’t: how cleaning can be more challenging if you have a physical or mental disability, if you share space with other people (roommates, parents, spouse, children), […]

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4/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Not Quite as Light as I Was Hoping For

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

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[Trigger warning for sensitive material mentioned below.] I first started the Stephanie Plum series many years ago – probably at least 10. I was recently looking for some light reading when I was going through an emotionally challenging time, and since I recalled the series being pretty light and many of the books are in my bookcase, I went ahead and grabbed the first one: One for the Money. The premise is that Stephanie lost her job several months ago and hasn’t been able to find a new one. She’s running extremely short on funds and has had to sell […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

I’m Sure There Was a Plot, But I Couldn’t Find It

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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I’ve had this book for ages, heard it was good and that it basically put Stephenson on the map, but I could not make it through to the end. I got to page 186 and stopped. It’s not that there was anything wrong with page 186; that was just where I’d finally had enough. Why? Because I cannot tell you what this book is about. I know what it’s supposed to be about, from reading the blurb on the back and other people’s reviews, but Stephenson spends so much time world-building and introducing characters and concepts that by page 186 a […]

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3/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Diets Don’t Work

The Metabolic Storm, 2nd Edition by Emily Cooper

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The beginning and end of this review are going to be fairly personal because the topic is very personal to me. I’ve been overweight for most of my life. After years of being in and out of therapy for food and body issues, I finally recently got around to seeing a nutritionist. She recommended this book to me. Author Emily Cooper makes a point of classifying overweight/obesity as a disease and believes that it should be recognized and treated as such, especially since various medical organizations have called obesity a “multi-metabolic hormonal disease state.” She spends much of the book, […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Chrono-Displaced Persons

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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I have never liked time travel. Episodes of science fiction TV that deal with it tend to give me a headache because I can’t wrap my mind around it and start thinking in circles. But I loved this book. It’s been around for a while and also had a movie based on it, but for those who don’t know, it’s about Henry and Clare. Henry is an involuntary time traveler; he has no control over where or when he travels, although it typically seems to be to important people or events from his past and future. When he travels, he […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

A Pair of Novels About Equestrians

Riding Lessons; Flying Changes by Sara Gruen

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The main character for both novels is Annemarie Zimmer. In Riding Lessons, she starts out as an 18-year-old equestrian who is an Olympic contender. Then she and her horse are in a horrific accident during a jumping event. It kills her horse and comes very close to paralyzing Annemarie. This all happens at the beginning of the book, and then it jumps forward 20 years. Annemarie has just lost her job, her husband has left her, she has a very difficult relationship with her teenage daughter, and then she finds out that her father has ALS. She and her daughter Eva […]

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5/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:13 |


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