Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Everything is not what it seems

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight

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Lizzie Kitsakis is working late in her office one night, at the prestigious New York law firm Young & Crane. It's not the job she pictured for herself, she was perfectly content working as an underpaid federal prosecutor, but her husband's alcoholism has forced her hand into taking this better … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , ·

The Coming Fury

The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton

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The public is dying to know: if you were to write a comprehensive history of the US civil war, where would you begin. Shelby Foote begins his 3000 page history with Davis and Lincoln thinking about their relative positions at the start of things. Bruce Catton begins this trilogy of history … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:111 · Genres: History · Tags: ·

The Magus

The Magus by John Fowles

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Every once in a while a novel will come out and it will be lauded as the takedown of the a certain kind of man -- a literary author, a wayward dude, a divorced dad, the fuck boy. And while sometimes the novels are good, they never quite feel the takedown people want them to be, and as if often the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:110 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

By the Book

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.  So, here's the thing. I loved Beauty and the Beast. I was fascinated by that movie when it first came out (the cartoon one not that horrible live action one) and felt like holy cow there's a Disney … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:70 · Genres: Romance · Tags: , ·

Poirot Investigates

Poirot Investigages by Agatha Christie

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March 2022 Update: So once again some of the stories were great and some were not. I am still more puzzled now more than anything on the whole "The Adventure of the Cheap Flat" and some of the other stories. The only stories I really enjoyed were "The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor", "The Disappearance of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:69 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: ·

Can a review be 250 heart emojis, asking for a friend

The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics by Gideon Defoe

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Ah, the dilemma of the book review ... when I hate it, I have SO MUCH to say, but when I love it, all I want to do is poke cloves in an orange in the shape of a heart and send it to the author by overnight mail. The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics is the fourth book of a series by … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: ·


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