Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Doo doo, doo doo doo doo!

Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

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Did anyone else sing the title of this book to the tune of Baby Shark? No? Just me then. Despite my knowledge of kid-friendly ear worms, I do not actually have any kids. This book essentially validated that decision as it told the story of Hannah. She is seven years old and non-verbal but otherwise very intelligent. She’s the absolute apple of her father’s eye and she loves her father even more. However, her mother Suzette, who spends all day at home with Hannah homeschooling her sees something more sinister. It doesn’t take the reader long to figure out that […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Jane Murder

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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I picked up Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye based on the review by @faintingviolet. And also Jane Eyre is one of my very favorite books. The eponymous Jane of Jane Steele is headstrong and willful, convinced she knows herself and her capabilities to her very core. She knows these things about herself because from a very young age, she has been told few things but those things she is told, she is told with great certainty. Jane’s moral certainty leads her to commit murder and deprive herself of companionship, believing as she does that since she knows herself so well, […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

The Kind Worth Killing – A Thriller Worth Reading

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

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I am no stranger to a thriller, I love a good murder mystery. I was looking for book recommendations to make me feel better about present stress in my life (i.e., when I am stressed, reading about murder makes me feel better because at least I’m not being murdered) and picked this one up on the recommendation of a friend and am delighted to give it two big ol’ thumbs up. This is a book I was delighted and surprised by, so much so that I regaled my poor husband with it, telling him of all the plot twists and […]

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4/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”

Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray

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In this third installment of Bray’s fantastic Diviners series, Libba Bray finally pulls together many moving pieces and lays down the major themes of the series with gusto. If I could sum it up in one phrase, I’d call this book “Ghosts are scary, but not as scary as evangelism” Or “Ghosts are scary, but it’s your fault.” The Diviners are a diverse group of supernaturally talented young people in 1920s NYC (who aren’t officially called “The Diviners” but simply “diviners” at this point).  In previous volumes, they have tracked down a paranormal serial killer and solved the crisis of […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart!

I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

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I’m really sorry for naming this review after the most cliche song I could have quoted — OR AM I? Sixteen-year-old Jess has been through it this year.  She survived a terrible car crash that killed her mother on impact. She’s left scarred and her leg is irrevocably damaged, despite the diligence she has devoted to her physical therapy. And now, the court has ordered her custody to the father she has barely known, transported there by an old family friend named Gil. Gil does not bring her to the government address on hand, however. She is flown to the […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Red Harvest

The Fools In Town Are On Our Side by Ross Thomas

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Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest is perhaps my favorite crime novel of all-time. It inspired one of my favorite movies of all time: Miller’s Crossing. It also inspired the Akira Kurosawa classic Yojimbo, which I have not seen, though I want to. Point being: I obviously have a thing for the specific genre where a political actor is caught in a corrupt city and plays both sides against each other for their own benefit. I don’t know Ross Thomas’ inspirations for Fools in Town but I’d be stunned if Red Harvest wasn’t one of them. This feels like an updated version, only more expansive. Thomas gives his protagonist, […]

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3/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

If ever there was a book that I needed to talk to someone about, this would be it

Blue Hours by Daphne Kalotay

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I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher. This has not influenced my review. Blue Hours is a book in three parts. It is part relationship drama, part international hostage drama, and part infuriating. The story begins in New York City with Mim, a recent college graduate trying to make it as a writer. She lives with several roommates and works in a retail clothing store. She is both too frugal to eat anything but liverwurst at the deli for lunch everyday and too frivolous to think about making her own sandwiches. Mim meets a man at […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Down the Rabbit Hole

Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

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I fell for you because that’s what you do when you meet the woman whose face you want to be looking into when you die. You fall. And keep falling. And if you’re really lucky, she falls with you and then you never get back up again to where you were because if that was so great, you wouldn’t have needed to fall in the first place. Rachel Childs has not had the best childhood. Her mother was a famed psychologist and writer of self-help relationship manuals in public, and a miserable, lonely pessimist in private. Rachel has never known […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |


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