Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Sure, I’ll Be Your Ghost

Be My Ghost by Carol J Perry

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Maureen Doherty isn’t having the best time as the store that she’s worked as a buyer for (and a decorator of?) goes out of business. She’s smart, savvy, and has an awesome dog so things aren’t too terrible for her though for very long, because as soon as she gets home she learns that she has inherited an inn in Haven, Florida from a woman she doesn’t even know.  After verifying that it’s not a hoax, she packs up her things and begins the road […]

Nessie, Cannabis, and Maple Syrup time with Bernie Sanders

Feel The Bern by Andrew Shaffer

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Feel the Bern is basically mindless entertainment which is too bad in a way since it has a lot of potential. Once Joe Biden actually ran for and won the Presidency, I’m guessing the author didn’t see it practical to continue to Obama-Biden murder mysteries, so Bernie Sanders must have been the back up or the next best option. The murder mystery takes place when a not super popular community member is found dead, seemingly having drowned in a vat of the town’s main export, […]

The Game is Afoot

All Dressed Up by Jilly Gagnon

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In an effort to shore up their faltering marriage, Becca and Blake go away for the weekend to a 1920s-themed murder mystery hotel. But when the actress playing the maid disappears, Becca suspects that a real crime might have occurred. I’ve always thought murder mystery dinners would be fun. I’ve never been to one, but I like stories and I like puzzles, and besides nothing that inspired the Edgar Allen Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party could be dull. I was intrigued by the idea of […]

#LifeGoals #RetirementGoals: The Novel

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

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Thursday Murder Club is a perfectly suitable novel for someone looking for a fast read that’s funny enough. I picked it up from the new paperback release display at a local bookshop on a lark. It’s a title that’s been read by a few people I know or mentioned in some “currently reading” or “recently read” or maybe even a “recommended read” list or conversation a few times. I had already read the synopsis and thought, Hm. Should maybe try that sometime. and just never really found myself […]

Crime and Poetry

Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower

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I discovered Amanda flower a little over a year ago, and I love these books. This is the first one in a new to me, series, The Magical Book Shop. They are fluff for sure, but they always keep me reading, it’s never too obvious who did it, and the characters are fun.

“You want to know if they’re the mittens I wore to Biden’s inauguration. That’s all anyone wants to talk about these days: mittens, mittens, mittens.”

Feel the Bern by Andrew Shaffer

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CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries #1 When Crash, a new intern working for Bernie Sanders, accompanies her boss up to a small-town festival in Vermont, the last thing she expects is to discover a dead body – or that Bernie will insist on trying to solve the mystery. A few years ago I read Hope Never Dies, a comic mystery where Obama and Biden team up in the post-2016 election season to uncover the truth behind an Amtrak conductor’s death. Now Shaffer has […]



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