Cannonball Read 18

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Not That Kind of Oven

Skye O'Malley by Bertrice Small

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Beautiful Skye O’Malley falls in love with Niall Burke on the eve of her marriage to another man, but even someone as adventurous as she cannot imagine the twists and turns her life will take on her way back to him. Sometimes you just want to lay back, turn off your brain, and enjoy a rollicking adventure full of romance, drama, and a surprising amount of politics. Bertrice Small’s work fits the bill perfectly, and in the life of Skye O’Malley, her best known heroine, […]

I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe

The Stranger by Albert Camus

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“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.” ― Albert Camus, The Stranger I don’t remember why I had this on my TBR list. Perhaps it is because it is consistently listed as one of the great literary works of the 20th century and I thought it was time to see what all of the fuss is about. We are introduced to Meursault as he travels from his home in Algiers to bury his mother, who […]

A French mystery that dabbles in immigration issues and murder

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Intrepid Parisian detective Aimee Leduc is back with another murder to solve, and it takes place in Belleville, a heavily Arab neighborhood rife with tension, mystery, violence and pathos. Leduc has been asked by the sister of her best friend to help her. The sister is married to a government minister and Aimee had actually attended their wedding several years earlier. Now, the sister suspects her husband of straying and wants Aimee to intervene. But when Aimee, a software specialist, reluctantly agrees to meet Anais […]



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