Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Zirza

I am an English teacher from the Low Countries. Like everyone else I aspire to one day write a Booker Prize Winner, but until then I contend my self with writing bitchy reviews.

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A Supremacy of Dunces

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

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Here’s my problem with The Last Widow: I wish I could say it was implausible and over the top, and ten years ago it would have been, but unfortunately, it’s not, and that makes it a scary and gripping read, but not a particularly comforting one. There’s nothing in this book that hasn’t happened before, and it’s going to happen again, sooner rather than later. We all know it. Karin Slaughter certainly does; there is a bleak and cynical current that flows through this book; no heroism, but an accurate sense of doom. On a hot summer’s day in Atlanta, […]

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6/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

My original title for this review was “Getting Blingy With It” and I feel like I deserve an award for that or possibly a slap in the face

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child

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GBI Agent Will Trent is working on a cold case: the murder of a sherrif’s deputy in a small Georgia town, twenty-odd years earlier. His most recent lead sends him undercover at Fort Knox, where his alias Jack Phineas Wolfe (no, really), army dropout, is hired to clean the gold. No, that’s what he’s hired to do. For real. Polish gold bars. This is not a euphemism; he’s inside a room with his suspect, polishing bars and getting sweaty. The suspect, by the way, is Jack Reacher, professional plot device. Will Trent has not seen the Tom Cruise movies so […]

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5/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Allow, if you’re still alive, six to eight years to arrive

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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There’s something about a noir novel with the word ‘sun’ in its title. It’s coming to me now. Wait. It’s almost there. … Nope, it’s gone now. Anyway. It’s 1994. Two attractive strangers walk into a sleepy Delaware town. She is Polly, a redhead with a sunburn, who has just left her husband and three year old daughter; he is Adam, a PI, looking for a woman once known as Pauline. They meet in the town’s only bar. She finds work as a waitress, he as a cook. They fall in love. There’s an apartment with an iron bed and […]

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5/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Writing 101: how to induce nausea, fits of rage and earth-shattering desperation in your audience

Fantasy in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

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Hello all, and welcome to fiction writing 101. Please take your seats. Coffee will be served during the break. Smokers, please only light up at the back of the building. Everyone, please steer clear of classroom B14 because the Ayurvedic Meditators are in there and they get a little iffy if you make any noise, and believe me, they have a very narrow definition on what constitutes noise. Alright, has everyone found a bucket? Sir, please put your mobile phone away, the WiFi’s not that great here anyway. Thanks. Have you all done your course reading for today? Great. We’ll […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Down the Rabbit Hole

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

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I fell for you because that’s what you do when you meet the woman whose face you want to be looking into when you die. You fall. And keep falling. And if you’re really lucky, she falls with you and then you never get back up again to where you were because if that was so great, you wouldn’t have needed to fall in the first place. Rachel Childs has not had the best childhood. Her mother was a famed psychologist and writer of self-help relationship manuals in public, and a miserable, lonely pessimist in private. Rachel has never known […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Envision that Circumcision and Feel that Eel

Under the Knife by Arnold van der Laar

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I’ve always wanted to be a doctor. That didn’t pan out, and I’m fine with that, but the interest in all things medical has lingered. Because I was planning to read more non-fiction anyway, I picked up this book on a whim, and although I wasn’t disappointed, it lacks a certain degree of depth. More subcutaneous than intraosseal, if you please. Van de Laar – who is a surgeon himself – takes us through the history of medicine, and specifically surgery, but instead of telling the tale chronologically he chooses to make his case based on famous cases and surgeries […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Breasting Boobily

Believe Me by JP Delaney

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There’s a blurb on the back of Believe Me from a review by The Daily Mail: ‘Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart.’ It’s the Daily Mail so this should be taken with a grain of salt either way, but I can think of a few better s-words to describe this novel. Soporific. Sophomoric. Sexist. Shitty. And let’s not forget the main one: stupid. So very stupid. That isn’t to say there’s nothing to enjoy there, but it’s enjoyable the way a really bad film is: it leaves you feeling smugly superior. The plot (which, I should reiterate, is stupid): British drama […]

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3/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Small Misunderstandings and Major Desillusions

Broken Harbour by Tana French

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Primarily, reviews are about preference: did I like this book? Was it good? Usually, the two converge; what is or what isn’t good is, after all, in the eye of the beholder. Occasionally, though, these two interlinked questions separate themselves. So what do you do when a book is very good, but you’re not sure you liked it? Experienced detective Michael “Scorcher” Kennedy is called to investigate an unusually grisly crime scene: at a half-finished housing development – abandoned during the financial crisis – a young family has been attacked, leaving two young children and their father dead and their […]

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3/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |


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