Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Silent but Deadly

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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Sorry all – my 12-year old self couldn’t help it with this title 🙂 Artist Alicia Berenson is accused of a horrible crime – shooting her photographer husband Gabriel five times in the face and killing him. When the police arrive, she refuses to speak, and doesn’t utter another word for 6 years following the crime. Her one statement is a painting, entitled Alcestis, based on a greek myth where Alcestis sacrifices herself for the life of her husband. Due to her silence and apparent mental […]

“There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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I am simultaneously satisfied and disappointed. I feel like you really only get one thriller in your lifetime that really knocks your socks off your feet, leaving your mouth hanging open like sort of fish creature, only able to say, “WHAT? What just happened???” And I have more than used up my quota of those types of books. I think Gone Girl was my first. I think it was a lot of people’s. And since Gone Girl there have been so, so many psychological thrillers […]

How can one drowning rat save another?

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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I really try to write reviews shortly after I read the book. If I don’t, books often tend to quickly fall to the bottom of my memory well. I can tell you whether I liked a book or not, but that’s about it. I may have waited too long on this one, but here goes. Psychotherapist, Theo Faber, is just starting a new job at an institution for the criminally insane. From the beginning of the novel, he is a little fanboy about a particular […]



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