Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Minty Alley by CLR James

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

The Lazarus Project by Aleksandr Hemon

No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The Lazarus Project This novel came out in 2008 in the middle of the 2008 presidential election. That doesn't really have much to do with the plot here, but the novel makes several references to the Iraq war as a backdrop to parts of the present action, as well as the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Midsomer Murders She Wrote

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

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I feel like I should get credit for reading two books here, as once again, one entire novel is sandwiched around another in Anthony Horowitz's second Susan Ryeland/Atticus Pünd murder(s) mystery. And this time it's murder squared. In Moonflower Murders, Susan Ryeland (our heroine from … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: ·

“The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.”

In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) by Tana French

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I can see in this book where everything I loved about The Searcher got its start. However, I am not sad to no longer be in the minds’ eye of Detective Rob Ryan. The narration of In the Woods is entirely in first person, he is telling the reader the story as it happened from somewhere in the near … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Embrace Tradition

The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton

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This is one I probably should sit on the way I usually do with reviews, as I probably wouldn't be as rapturous in description if I sat down and examined all the holes in this book (and it has plenty). But man, that ending. Those of you who have read my posts and commented before know my thing … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: , , , , ·

Devil House by John Darnielle

Devil House by John Darnielle

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So. My review of Devil House is going to be a bit unfair because the book was not at all what I was expecting. I could have sworn I saw a review claiming this book was really creepy/scary with a dash of gore. In my opinion, that is 100% false. There is a description of an eye injury that I had … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Gentrification Meets Get Out in Brooklyn

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

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I couldn’t put down this book after starting it. I burned through it in one and a half days, because sleep,  it it was engaging all the way through and the ending was insane. Loved the story, as it’s something that resonates with me (gentrification in NYC has gotten so bad and so many people have … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: , , , , , ·


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