Cannonball Read 18

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Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore

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Written by a contemporary of Dickens, and a favorite of mine since I was a teen.  Ah, so romantic, and sometimes disarmingly funny too.  So let me set it up for you.  Set in Exmoor during the mid-1600s, young local wrestling champion John Ridd is Gaston, except make him responsible, kind, and with a rather snarky sense of humor, running the family’s large landholding, and caring for his widowed mother and two younger sisters.  Man has his hands full. In an isolated valley, not far […]

if it feels too good to be true…

The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks

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THEN IT IS! RUN! Freya, our protagonist, is a willfully clueless horror heroine. Were The Whispering House a movie, we would all be shouting at her every time she was on screen. Don’t open that door! Don’t drink that tea! Don’t go up those stairs! Don’t look behind you! Don’t move in to the crumbling manor house that is somehow connected to your sister’s suicide days after meeting the charming yet off-putting man of the house! Just…DON’T! A blurb on the cover of my ARC states […]

What are you hiding underneath that skin suit?

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan

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Ian McEwan has his hits and misses, but by gum, everything he writes is memorable. It’s interesting to see him return to short fiction, since that’s where his career started. I don’t remember all the stories from , but I DO remember opening my mouth in shock a few times. He didn’t earn the nickname “Ian Macabre” for nothing. And with The Cockroach, we DEFINITELY get some wild and memorable moments. If you read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and thought “This, but in reverse,” you’ll be […]



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