Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

It started with death at the dinner party

Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

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My reading of Deanna Raybourn’s new series led me to the Lady Julia Grey series, her previous historical mysteries featuring an intrepid heroine.  This book begins with death – Julia’s husband Edward suddenly keels over at the start of a dinner party, a seemingly natural tragedy.  Edward had a history of a weak heart, so it was assumed that was the cause of his death.  As it turns out, things are not as they seem and as Julia reaches the end of her year long mourning period she begins to believe he was murdered.  She reaches out to Nicholas Brisbane, […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:81 |

Weird mix of weird

Across Five Aprils; Little Tales of Misogyny; Black Dahlia and White Rose; Wide Sargasso Sea; Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Irene Hunt; Patricia Highsmith; Joyce Carol Oates; Jean Rhys; Rosalyn Schanzer

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Across Five Aprils: 4/ 5 Stars This is another Civil War book, and another Civil War book taking place in the midwest, that I read as a kid. I grew up in the South and thought about the Civil War a LOT. It happens. Anyway, like Rifles for Watie mentioned in the previous one, this focuses on the western theater of the war but still deals a lot with the news from the East. This becomes a kind of interesting conceit, where our main character is only about 10 at the start of the war and mostly hears about it […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:416 |

Loving your enemy

An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles

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This is book two in the Sins of the City series, set in Victorian England and it carries the tale forward that left the reader hanging at the end of the first book.  I won’t go into too much detail on that one here, as you can read my review on that one if you’re interested.  Nathanial Roy is a former lawyer, now crusading journalist who is helping his friend Clem with some legal battles.  In the course of his work, he meets Justin Lazarus, who is a con artist and so-called seer of London.  Nathanial is prepared to hate […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

The Poor Have Always Been With Us

White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

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HALF CANNONBALL! I picked this audio book off the shelf at a library wine tasting because of it’s catchy Title. I mean, how can you see the glaring title, “White Trash,” and not be intrigued? And I haven’t listened to an audio book in a while, so it seemed like a good idea. And it was, mostly. White Trash chronologically unpacks the history of white poverty in America from the 1600s to 2012. Isenberg begins with the English penal colonies where the British government literally rounded up hundreds of poverty stricken men and orphan boys and either pressed them into the […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

“Trump wasn’t part of anyone’s plan. For that matter, neither was I.”

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur

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I live in one of the few blue counties of a red state and nearly everyone I socialize with is left leaning with few exceptions. One of which is a woman who, despite being illegally brought to America as an infant, proudly refers to herself as a deplorable. It always confused me how someone who, despite having a uterus, could support a hate mongering Cheeto and thanks to Katy Tur I am beginning to understand. I tend to have the first 90 minutes of The Today Show on in the background while I get ready for work (although I get the bulk […]

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10/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:111 |

A series of lies

The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

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This is book two in the Rokesby series, set before the infamous Bridgerton bunch series, of which I’ve read all.  However, I’m not as taken with this series as I’d hoped to be.  The first book was okay, and this one had a lot of problematic plot devices.  To begin with, Cecilia Harcourt makes an impetuous journey from England to America to care for her brother Thomas, a soldier in the army.  He’s gone missing, however, but she feels like it would be an easy task to find him.  Instead, she finds his friend Edward Rokesby – unconscious and needing […]

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10/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

Pearls of wisdom

Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner

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This is a fictionalized telling of the life of Coco Chanel, and it strives to give a complete picture of the legendary designer.  I admit to knowing next to nothing about her before I read the book, and it was quite fascinating to read how she managed to rise from poverty to become an icon in fashion.   Born Gabrielle Chanel, she and her siblings were split apart after the death of her mother and abandonment of her father.  During her schooling by nuns, she realized her talent for sewing and this led to her first designs of hats that […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:78 |

Agent Dazzle and Lace

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir by Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin

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It hit me then that perhaps I had been looking at my assignment all wrong. I was serving the president, and the country, with an important task. I was responsible for protecting the things that were most important to him, personally- his wife and his children. Special Agent Clint Hill had been in the Secret Service a little over a year before he was transferred from exiting President Eisenhower’s detail to entering First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s detail in November of 1960. He was upset at first, viewing the role as a demotion, but took his job very seriously and didn’t question his […]

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10/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:108 |


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