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A Mess of a Book

The Last Kid Left by Rosecrans Baldwin

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  I’m sorry to have to write a bad review, but I hated this book.  And what is really disappointing is that the concept is great, but the delivery is appalling. The story is basically about a 19 year old boy who has a car crash and there are two dead bodies in his car (dead before the car accident). He says he killed them, however he is not convincing. Who actually killed these two adults and why is this kid taking the blame. That is basically the concept of the novel. Why do I hate it? Here are my […]

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9/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

Not my favorite Moore, but, serviceable humor: a resounding shrug.

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

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I am a huuuuuge Christopher Moore fan. He won me with Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. And, for that I am indebted to him because listing it as one of my favorite books is what led to my fiance messaging me on OkCupid. So, Moore, high five buddy. I have read a number of his other works and particularly adore the Pine Cove series and reread “The Stupidest Angel” every year for Christmas for the past 7 years. With all that said, this one did not really flip my skirt up. It has all the elements of […]

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9/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

Use the Very Best Vanilla

Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook by Martha Stewart

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I spent a while trying to decide which book I was going to review for the Delicious slot on my Bingo card. I knew I wanted to do a cookbook, because I have a lot of them and I love reading and rereading them cover to cover. I thought about doing one of my newer acquisitions, but the truth is that while I love them and have read them I haven’t really cooked from them. I think that if you’re going to do a cookbook review you ought to have at least attempted one of the recipes in it. Instead, […]

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9/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

FRAMED FOR MURDER!!! (Yawn)

The Guilty Wife by Elle Croft

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The Guilty Wife was an okay book.   That’s where I’d like to leave this review, but I guess that’s against the rules.  The Guilty Wife, like all books labeled a “psychological thriller” post Gone Girl attempts to be sly and have at least one (possibly two or three) twists.  And quite frankly?  I’m sick of the twists…especially when you can see the big old twist a mile away down the road.  I teach a fiction writing course and I always tell the kids that there’s nothing wrong with telling a straight forward, honest story…but nope, there’s almost always a […]

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9/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Yes, she can be a little “extra.” But the food is delicious.

Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen, Adeena Sussman, Aubrie Pick

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I think at this point, most of humanity is familiar with Chrissy Teigen. I follow her on Twitter and Instagram. I enjoy her comment round-ups on Comments by Celebrities. I love her obsession with Walter(Owen’s Grandp), who may or may not be real. Her kids are adorable and her mothering is relatable. Her husband seems cool and pretty normal for a massive celebrity. And like a lot of others, SOMETIMES I CANNOT GET THE RIDICULOUS HEADBAND OF THE DAY SONG OUT OF MY HEAD. Sure, she can be annoying with her no-holds-barred tweeting. But I find her amusing. I also […]

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9/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

Like Firefly, if Zoe was the Captain

The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes

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I got the audio book for The Palace Job because of fun reviews from emmalita and lowercasesee. Sometimes I think the more fun part of the Cannonball is reading reviews to get new books to read. The only problem with listening to the audio book is you have to look up all the spellings for the fantasy names. The Palace Job is about a rag-tag group of misfits who plan to rob Archvoyant Silestin (a competent and formidable bad guy…hooray!). There’s a war between the Empire and the Republic, which has ended. Loch is our heroine, and she was accused […]

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9/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

Pass the harpoon ‘cuz this one blows

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

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#cbr10bingo #whitewhale I purchased this book five years ago and began to read it for one of the Cannonballs but stopped after about 20 or 30 pages. I had not seen the award-winning film (still haven’t) but I knew it was about patients in a psych ward and a sadistic nurse. I stopped reading because I knew, just based on the first few pages, that actions would be described that I did not want to read, so I put it aside and decided to come back to it some day. It’s been surfacing in my stack periodically ever since then. […]

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9/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

Reading Too Many Novels Can Make a Young Lady’s Imagination Run Wild, You Know! Same Here, TBH

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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Before now, the only novel by Jane Austen I had read was Pride and Prejudice back in high school, and to be honest I remember the film adaptations of it more than the actual reading of the novel. So in approaching Northanger Abbey, there was a bit of an adjustment for me in getting into the language and writing style of Austen, but after a bit of a curve and effort to get going at first, it became smoother sailing. I can understand why some people might find this novel perhaps a little slow in that a lot of the […]

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8/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |


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