Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Seldom has so much stupidity been written by such a smart man.

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

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I’ll start this review by briefly describing the story. I’m only doing this to get it out of the way, because I’m not going to talk much about it in the rest of the review. Celebrating the opening of its new headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, the Nakamoto Corporation throws a lavish party filled with businessmen, celebrities, and politicians. During the party, a young woman, Cheryl Austin, is murdered. Police Lt Peter Smith, Japanese liaison with the LAPD, and Cpt. John Connor are given the task of investigating what appears to be a complex conspiracy connecting Washington, DC, and a […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:58 |

Player One is Ready!

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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I absolutely loved this book.  I know an audiobook is good when it makes me sit in my car outside my garage (so I don’t die from asphyxiation) and continue listening after I get home.  This book is read by Wil Wheaton, who just has a great voice with fun inflections, and tone changes, and all that is good in the world. This book was 15 hours long, so there’s a lot to cover.  I really don’t want to give anything away, so I’m going to do do a bare bones plot overview.  I had so much fun seeing what […]

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8/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

An ugly, ugly book

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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I’ll open this review by saying I have a very low tolerance for books or movies that feature torture. I just don’t want those images in my head. I don’t want to think about the fact that human beings do such depraved and terrible things to other human beings. I don’t want to think about the fact that people’s last hours have been filled with pain and horror initiated by the whims of another person. I don’t even want to think about how an author or director can sit there and conjure up terrible things to do to characters in […]

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8/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

Trauma, Trauma EVERYWHERE!

Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson

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After reading Swanson’s novel A Kind Worth Killing which was like a cross between Strangers on a Train and Don’t Make Agreements with Psychopaths for Dummies (a book not yet written but should be), I was excited to see that Swanson had another book, which is why I picked up Her Every Fear.  A Kind Worth Killing had a hook immediately, Her Every Fear took me a little to get drawn in but after a few chapters, it was the thriller on steroids that I was hoping for. Our main character Kate Priddy decides to escape London (and something VERY […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

“Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.”

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

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I have a well documented problem with books that have too many characters, particularly when the too many characters each have chapters from their point of views, so I don’t think I was every going to love Into the Water… That being said, even if the novel only focused on two or three of the characters I still don’t think I would have been into it, definitely not like I was with Hawkins’ previous novel Girl on the Train or any of the other recent strings of female focused thrillers. Nel, a single mother, is found at the bottom of the river in a […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:83 |

Like Breakfast Club, but with a murder

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M McManus

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This was a book where the premise hooked me from the start. Five high-school seniors—a nerd, a jock, a rebel, a princess, and an outsider—are in detention together. One of them is murdered, but only someone in the room could have done it. I saw it on an amazon ad, and although it is not my usual genre, I flipped immediately to my kindle app and got the sample. By the time the sample was over, I was dying to know who did it. The book is told through the perspective of the four surviving students: Bronwyn, the overachieving smart […]

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8/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Big Suspense, Big Time Fun, Little Criticism

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

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It has been a bit since I was absolutely OBSESSED with a story, and finding out whodunnit, but Big Little Lies captured me from head to toe. I went into the novel knowing of the successful HBO miniseries and seeing trailers with competitive women jogging on the beach, and I wasn’t sure it was my cup of tea but I listened to the bajillion ladies I know who said, “OMG READ THIS BOOK” and they were all correct. Firstly, and importantly, I did this on audiobook and I think that medium really suits this novel. Essentially the novel starts by […]

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8/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Oldies But Goodies

The Weiser Book of The Fantastic and Forgotten by Judika Illes

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The Fantastic and Forgotten, edited by Judika Illes (2016) – Usually when I review anthologies, I summarize individual stories and give an overall judgement, but this anthology is such a unique concept, I must discuss the entire anthology as a whole. First of all, I’d never heard of Weiser Books who published this anthology.  They publish occult, esoteric, speculative, and New Age works.  This collection, however, publishes stories of forgotten authors from the 1800s, mostly English, and includes such surprising (and not forgotten) authors such as Bram Stoker (yes, that Bram Stoker), Oscar Wilde, H.P. Lovecraft, Mrs. Lovecraft (who knew […]

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8/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

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