Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Enjoyed it while reading it, then forgot about it almost immediately

Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

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Plot: Florence is an editorial assistant at a publishing company who one day sort of accidentally-on-purpose blows up her unfulfilling life. Soon after, she’s given the chance to work as an assistant for the celebrated pseudonymous author, Maud Dixon. She soon learns that Maud Dixon is in fact a woman named Helen, an unbearably pretentious (my interpretation, not Florence’s) woman living in upstate New York. Helen is working on a novel that takes place in Morocco, and so the two travel there together for her […]

Who IS Maud Dixon? The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Gone Girl

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

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Looking for an engaging, quick but literary, character-driven mystery? Spend a cozy Saturday curled up with Alexandra Andrews’ debut novel. First, you’ll have to get past the unlikability of almost all the characters in the novel – it’s a testament to Andrews’ writing that despite really disliking nearly every character I still devoured this book. I may not have been any more interested in spending time with Florence Darrow than her colleagues, but I was interested in what would happen to her in this book. […]

Extra Reading

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

Players by Don DeLillo

A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke

Louise Hathcock: Queen of the State Line Mob by Robert Broughton

Lemons Never Lie by Richard Stark

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I’m trying to document all of the books I read on here to better hit my cannonball numbers. These are ones I’ve been meaning to upload into combined reviews but haven’t. Some are good, some are eh, but most of them just didn’t merit a lot of words from me at the time I finished them for various reasons. Who Is Maud Dixon? *** For a similar identity-based thriller I read last year, a reviewer derisively pegged it as The Talented Mr. Rip-off. I didn’t […]



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