Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Vernon Subutex part 1

Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes

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Oddly, I kind of felt like this book would be grimier than it is. It’s still pretty grimy, but not as much as I thought. We begin this trilogy with our title character, Vernon Subutex, kind of coming to. He’s older middle-aged and has always been around the music scene, specifically as running a record shop for years. He’s well-known, not particularly well-liked, but has generally been in the mix of things. He’s not so much anymore. Upon waking up, among looking for enough money […]

Lost the Plot

Lost by Michael Robotham

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On an otherwise unremarkable night, London detective Vincent Ruiz finds himself desperately clinging to a buoy in the river Thames, bleeding out from a brutal gunshot wound to his leg. When he finally wakes up in hospital a few days later his memory of the events leading up to that night are gone. His superiors are pissed at him and all Vince knows is that something went horribly wrong. Why was he in the Thames? Why is his hospital room being guarded? And why was […]

“You will be safe as long as you stay away from Gallant”

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

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Victoria Schwab: “One of the tricky things about my books is that they’re never written for the same reader.  It’s a choice I made, and I stand by, but it also means that someone is invariably disappointed.  They might love Shades of Magic, but Vicious doesn’t work for them. They might adore Addie LaRue, but feel let down by Gallant.  The found themselves in the center of the reader spot light with one of my books, and then at the edges with another.  Some days […]

Looking back on the last two months, and this is all I have to show for it.

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

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I was in college in 2005, studying archaeology and talking to creationists in my free time. The Passion of the Christ had come out the previous year, and I was smart enough to sound like I knew something about the world, but not smart enough to just leave well enough alone. I spent a lot of time talking about religion, and science, and art, and history, and literature. Politics would come later – but I was a college student, and it was the point in […]

I needed a title, so it is called I needed a title for this book I read

Still Mine by Jayne Pillemer

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Still Mine by Jayne Pillemer was published earlier this year. I may or may not have reviewed it before, but I know I have read it. And I think I might not have enjoyed it as much last time as this time. It is a solid 3.5 or 4 for its rating. I know many are not fans of that “average 3” but I like to think that a 3 means it is a solid story, maybe it will not set your pants on fire […]

And you thought eating pizza was easy

No Ordinary Pizza: A Story about Interconnection by Sara Marlowe

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I almost did not review No Ordinary Pizza: A Story about Interconnection by Sara Marlowe. But just because it was not something I loved, did not mean it was not a book people should not hear about. I would like to qualify my comment of I did not love it by saying, I probably had factors that were in play that colored my opinion. I was not comfortably sitting reading it, I was tired, and I have read several similar books and the theme is […]



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