Cannonball Read 11

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“You take one accident, why, that’s too bad. Everybody’s sorry. Poor Nell.”

Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong

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This is an intense and crazy little book. It’s like a combination of Adventures in Babysitting and The Bad Seed, or what would happen if I let my bad little kitten babysit. So the novel begins with a a married couple preparing in a hotel to go out to an event held in the honor of the husband.  He is to give a speech! As they’re preparing, their babysitting plans for their 9 year old daughter “Bunny” fall through and they have to decide between the mother staying with her, cancelling, or taking up the kindly elevator operator’s offer to […]

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2/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:104 |

“It’s impossible to know if we were a good thing that broke somehow or a bad thing that eventually became exposed. “

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

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Something in the Water got a lot of attention last year; Steadman’s debut novel was nominated for two Goodreads Choice awards and was Reese Witherspoon’s June Book Club read. I borrowed this one from the library based on these facts so I didn’t know much about the novel going in which is sometimes best with thrillers. “I notice my sudden jump in logic. From making a mistake to actively committing a crime. Just like that. I wonder if that’s how it starts with a lot of criminals…” Erin is a documentary film maker who is weeks away from her wedding when […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Smash Cut! Flashback!

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

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In Transcription by Kate Atkinson, Juliet Armstrong finds herself swept along the currents of World War II to become “someone’s girl,” making tea and transcribing the audio recordings of homegrown Nazi sympathizers. Having found my way to Kate Atkinson’s writing by way of Life After Life, I’ve now read most of her published work. She is one of the most versatile writers I’ve ever read but with Transcription, she seems to have fallen prey to that thing that happens when a tv show or movie is made of a popular author’s stories- she is writing for the visual impact on a […]

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2/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Our House, in the Middle of our Heath

The Likeness by Tana French

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I used to share a house with nine other people. They were cool people, all nine of them, but it was still far from perfect. I lacked a sense of privacy, even with my own room. I prefer going about things on my own. I can only imagine what it must have been like to spend every night in forceful merriment. In that sense, I tip my hat in the direction of the main character of The Likeness. Detective Cassandra “Cassie” Maddox receives a phone call in the middle of the night urging her to come to a secluded location […]

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2/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

This Should Either be 5 Stars or Negative 100

Her Closest Friend by Clare Boyd

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on March 5, 2019.  I have no words guys. I stayed up until 1 am finishing this book. It’s engrossing because at times you can’t believe how bad the writing and flow is. I kept reading because I was wondering if the character of Sophie was finally going to snap and take out her closest friend Naomi. And I was baffled at how dumb Naomi was about a lot of things. So I just sat back and enjoyed […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

Hostages and Opera

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

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I picked up Bel Canto (2001) by Ann Patchett because it was chosen for my book club. And about a week after my book club met, I finally finished reading it. My tardiness in finishing should not reflect on this novel, which I found very interesting and read quickly. The problem was that I started reading the night before my book club met. An unnamed South American country (most likely Peru) is wooing Katsumi Hosokawa, a Japanese business mogul, to invest in their country. They throw a lavish birthday party for Hosokawa at the Vice President’s home. To entice Hosokawa to attend, […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

“Beautiful girl, lovely dress, where she is now I can only guess”

Good as Gone by Amy Gentry

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How does it affect a family when the worst thing imaginable happens? How do parents influence their child’s decisions without even realizing that they’re doing it? How do you deal with the fact that your long lost loved one might be an imposter? These are some of the themes throughout Amy Gentry’s suspense novel Good as Gone. The novel begins eight years from the present day when young Julie Whitaker is taken from her bedroom at knife point by an unknown abductor never to be seen again. The only witness is her terrified younger sister. We rejoin the family in […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

true story: my parents were called in for a meeting with the guidance counselor when I wrote a poem about bog sacrifices in third grade

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

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…which I learned about from reading Spider magazine. Ghost Wall kicks off with a young woman being led to the peaty gloom before snapping back to a modern teenager forced to reenact the Iron Age with her father and the massive chip on his shoulder. Clocking in at a mere 130 pages, Ghost Wall bridges the expanse from ancient Britons to bored college students. Sarah Moss’s prose is sparse but lush; months worth of meditations shift and shimmer through the fog of just 130 pages.   A theme reigns supreme throughout this expanse: a woman’s worth can only be described through her purity. Parents, professors, students, […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |


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