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Filling a glaring gap in my literary resume…

Dune by Frank Herbert

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I really enjoy science fiction, and while I don’t stick to that genre exclusively, I have read enough that I felt considerable shame for never having read Dune.  There are classics that everyone just has to experience. So on a recent vacation, I brought it along to rectify this situation. Dune is set on the planet Arrakis, a desert land that hosts only one valuable resource, called ‘the spice’. Its drug-like qualities are invaluable across the galaxy, and is worth killing for. Our protagonist is teenager Paul Atreides, a son of the noble family sent to rule over Arrakis and […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

You will never find a Romanov conspiracy that I will not read.

The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

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It wasn’t long after reading Gill Paul’s The Secret Wife, that I learned of her second Romanov conspiracy novel. As previously stated, I AM HERE FOR IT. I don’t care what the premise is, or how far-fetched, I will eat it right up. In this novel, Paul focuses the story on Maria (which, much like in The Secret Wife, it’s so fascinating to read a theory about someone other than Anastasia). Half of this novel focuses on Maria herself, starting just before the family massacre in 1918. It theorizes that her relationships with a couple of the guards will set […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Belated Bingo Review… because staying on top of reviews is hard, guys.

The Secret Wife by Gill Paul

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Yeahhhh… I was bound and determined to get that full card bingo… but plans went a bit sideways when I was REALLY good at the reading…. and REALLY bad at staying caught up with reviewing. So I’m determined to get my backlog cleared today, because I WILL end this year with a full Cannonball, dammit.   For years I’ve been an tad bit obsessed with anything related to the Romanovs. Their tragic story has captivated the world, and I can’t get enough – historical books, documentaries, conspiracy theories, I will eat it all up.  Then this year Netflix released their […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Is there anyone NOT reading this series? If so, what is the matter with you??

A Better Man by Louise Penny

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Seriously though, there are enough Cannonballers who are on the Inspector Gamache train, that this should just be required reading. Amirite? [Review is semi-spoilery, depending on where you are in the series] Due to his questionable (yet, effective) methods of cracking a drug ring in the last book, Inspector Gamache found himself stripped of his title as head of the Quebec police department. This book sees him accepting a demotion and returning to his previous role as head of homicide. It’s a decision that is dividing the province, as some laud him as a hero, but an increasing number are […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |

Great except for the bits where I wanted to put it in the freezer.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

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Why must Blake Crouch give me all this nightmare fuel? I’m serious, I don’t know why I thought I could get out of this book without my brain being swirled into funnels of terrorized adrenaline. There was little inkling of it in Dark Matter with SPOILERS all of those parallel worlds, and several of them being nuclear wastelands, but that was after the fact. Here, we get it up close and personal and in the moment. Seven times. What the fuck END SPOILERS. I swear, if I wasn’t reasonably sure we would be getting a happy ending, I would have […]

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12/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:95 |

Do not expect the obvious.

Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman

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There are some perfectly good and perfectly stories in this collection, and I was ready to give it a lower rating until we returned to some familiar topics and characters toward the end. So the bad first: too many, and there are many here, stories in this collection start with an interesting and engaging set of ideas and plots, and then out of nowhere as soon as the character reaches a kind of impasse, there’s a murder to get them out of it. And so it becomes too often a kind of variations on a theme. And there’s very little […]

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12/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:666 |

The baby is dead

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

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I like thrillers, so when I saw The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani on NPR’s Best Books of 2018 List, I was expecting something like Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train. When I actually began reading, I found it wasn’t exactly as I was expecting. On the one hand, this is a good book. It is well written. There are imperfect characters, and universal themes of class and women’s roles that make you think. On the other hand, this book was pretty hard to read. It wasn’t so much of a thriller as watching dysfunction slowly turn into tragedy. The story takes place in […]

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12/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

The other reason…well, I wanted to see what you’d do.

After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson

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I’ve read a few Jim Thompson books (all audiobooks) and I would listen to every single one I could get my hands on if more were available. The stories (all weird, alluring, and violent) are attractive and compelling dips into some kind of petty underworld, and usually with a compelling narrator (at least four straight so far for me). This one dips into some heavy trope territory and as it’s 1955 you have to be willing to put up with some heavy bouts of misogyny and mental health stigmas. Our narrator is a former boxer newly released from a mental […]

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11/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:656 |


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