Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Never Flinch

Never Flinch by Stephen King

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Never Flinch is a Holly Gibney novel, the fifth King has written, though only the second where she is a leading character. Gibney, who shined as a supporting player in the Bill Hodges trilogy and The Outsider, has had a rougher time of it in her starring roles. Holly, who survived a childhood under her oppressive mother’s thumb to become an ace private investigator, is the kind of character audiences instinctively root for, but King’s handling of her has not always been the best. Her […]

The World Tries to Make Us Commodities, but We are Human.

Plum by Cate C. Wells

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When we first meet Jo-Beth Connoly, aka Plum, she’s at work. Adam Wade is watching her give his step brother and business partner a blow job in a private room at The White Van, a strip club run by the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club. Adam’s brother tries to short Plum on money and a fight ensues. Adam gives Plum more money than she’s owed to settle the issue. Plum is concerned Adam may think they have some sort of pay in advance thing going. Adam […]

The Long Halloween

The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb, Gregory Wright

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The Long Halloween is one of those Batman comic runs that makes the diehard fans sit up and take notice. I’m not sure this is what I am, unfortunately. This story is by no means bad, but it’s grim, the color scheme is dark, and it tends towards the melodrama. The best Batman is Batman with a small amount of humor alongside it. The DC Animated Universe gives us a stern and serious Batman, but it also gives us a horny Wonder Woman for him […]

Not the kind of in-depth I was looking for

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

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Not in Love (Ali Hazelwood) *** Rue Siebert is a scientist who loves her work. She spends her days at a tech company trying to improve the shelf life of perishables; as a child who dealt with a lot of food insecurity, it is personally important to her. It also provides her with financial stability and her best friend works there too. But then a hostile takeover occurs, and Rue is very surprised to see the man leading the takeover is Eli Killgore – the […]

There were also nuns in the book

Danger to Others by Crites, Martha

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Bingo row 4 – red (Why did I splay out the book like this? To show how red it is.) I recently read and partially read a few books that should have been enjoyable, but they weren’t. Maybe I was in the wrong place for books I would have enjoyed at another time. Maybe those books just weren’t for me. But whatever it was, what I needed was murder mysteries. Danger to Others by Martha Crites is a standalone sequel to her first book. If […]

Settle Yourselves Down for a STORY.

The Knight of Maison-Rouge by Alexandre Dumas

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cbr17bingo Citizen How many times has The Three Musketeers been filmed?  Dumas knew how to tell a tale, even though he could be fairly verbose, at times.  But hey. when you get paid by volume, that makes sense. The Knight of Maison Rouge, the character named in the title, is a champion of Marie Antoinette, in that murky period in French history between the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, and her own.  The government consisted of various battling contingents of “citizens” each trying to […]



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