Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A creepy little short story

The Line Unseen by Joe Hart

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Boy was this a short book! I’m not really sure that I fully remember what happened in this book. I do remember being fully creeped out though. I’ve read at least one or two Joe Hart books in the past, and they’ve been mostly zombie related. This one was a little different, but it did involve an element of the supernatural / fictional creature. This is basically the story of a guy who finds out his wife is cheating on him, and tries to do […]

Evelyn went a little cuckoo, but she’s ok now

Evelyn, After by Victoria Helen Stone

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Evelyn thought everything in her life was fine. She had a good kid, a successful husband, and a nice house. She gets a late night call one night that her husband has been in a car accident and she needs to come pick him up immediately. She can’t call the cops or tell anyone about it. She thinks it’s a little bit weird, and when she gets there, he’s not alone. He says his patient freaked out at the office and he had to take […]

December 2022 Leftovers

The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

Nineteen Eighty Three by David Peace

Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder by Steve Hodel

And There He Kept Her by Josh Moehling

The Crossing by Michael Connelly

The Nice Guys by Charles Ardai

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe

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Happy Holidays! Here are the books I finished this month that didn’t merit full reviews due to time constraints and/or a lack of 250 words to describe them… The Burning Room**** Usually with Bosch books, I can tell within the first 30 pages if they’re gonna be good or not. This one was different. I didn’t have a sense for it at first and had a little trouble connecting with it but it turned out to be great. I liked Connelly’s integration of Lucia Soto, […]

Catch-Up 22

Chainsaw Man Vol. 13 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll

My Rosebud Boy by Rainbow Rowell

She-Hulk #7 by Rainbow Rowell

Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

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I’m late to the game with these reviews, plus I missed the best and worst of the year talks, but I don’t wanna falsely claim these as 2023 reads next year, so here goes. I’ve done very little in the way of reading these last two months of the year, pretty much keeping to my usual comfort picks, as I’m sure you can tell. Getting married, working 50 hours a week for a little while, and having two major holidays, will do that to you, […]

Pedal-to-the-Metal

Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby

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Well, this is a perfect book to review after Blood Sweat and Chrome? Going by the blurb of Blacktop Wasteland, I had been expecting a crime novel. But this is not really the case. What I got instead was a novel that was one part noir and many many parts most intense car changes I have ever seen committed to the written word. Now I may have made some grammatical clunkers there trying to convey the kind of feel you get from Blacktop Wasteland, but […]

The Library of Lost and Found

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

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Oh wow. I did love this one. Though a library is central to the story, I loved the fact instead of hearing about famous books you would know, we get to know about stories the main character Martha used to write until she was a teenager. I would have loved if at the end Patrick had put all of the stories together for us to read, or even had a companion novel. The stories are sad and at times dark fairy tales. You get why […]



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