Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A great (imo) twist that I did not see coming

A Criminal Defense by William L. Myers Jr.

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Ok guys.  I consider myself to be pretty intelligent.  Like I totally know words, and even how to use them!  I can name all of the James Bond movies, and who played Bond in each of them.  Additionally, I’m a great Googler.  Now that I’ve laid out my case (ooh it’s a legal book – unintentional pun!) for my unparalleled wit, I want to say that I did not see the twist in this story coming.  And it wasn’t one of those out of left field twists for the sake of being twisty.  Once it happened (after I closed my […]

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6/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

Never thought a John Grisham novel could make me cry

The Confession by John Grisham

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Becoming a parent (which my wife and I did two years ago) does some strange and unexpected things to your brain. I’ve spent the entirety of my time on this earth identifying with the kid in every parent-child relationship. I’ve always seen myself as the kid. I had no other perspective from which to peer at the world. And then…..it shifted. Given those same parent-child situations, I now see it from the other side. This is such a simple shift in perspective, but there’s a world of difference between the two. Because of this, my response to this book is […]

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4/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

Prison Doesn’t Work – So What Do We Do?

Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar

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Best for: People interested in what justice could look like. In a nutshell: Author Maya Schenwar – whose sister has been in and out of prison – explores what is wrong with our current system, as well as alternatives. Line that sticks with me: “Isolation does not ‘rehabilitate’ people. Disappearance does not deter harm. And prison does not keep us safe.” Why I chose it: A political podcast I used to listen to interviewed the author. It struck both my husband and I so much that we accidentally bought two copies. Review: I grew up assuming that if something bad […]

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4/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Tis the Season to be Bashing! Tra La La La La!

Memory in Death by JD Robb

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Happy sigh. This is one of my favorite re-reads. I tend to read it around the Christmas season. But seriously. I needed a happy (as it can be) In Death book. It gets to be a bit of a grind to just read about rape and murder in every other book. Memory in Death (In Death #22) is a really good Eve Dallas and Roarke book. We get to spend about equal time with Roarke in this one. And I just sadly realized it’s been a while since we got a significant third person POV of Roarke in an In […]

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3/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:88 |

Okay Second Book in Miss Fisher’s Murder Series

Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood

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I think this book is firmly a three star read. We get introduced to Mr. Butler, though in the book series he has a wife. We have Phryne once again being led by her libido. At least she has good deductive reasoning though. Though I will say that whole last act was unnecessary with Phryne and I found myself bored senseless reading about her clothes and how much food she had eaten. She also makes an agreement with one of the culprits in this book that I found to be gross and offf-putting. I am still going to read the […]

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3/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:87 |

One of my Favorite In Death Books

Survivor in Death (In Death #20) by JD Robb

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Honestly there is not a lot to say here except that this is one of my favorite “In Death” books. There are a couple of scenes that I found too outrageous to be believed (the ending with Nixie), anyone allowing Dallas to take a kid to live with her and Roarke instead of having her in foster care, etc. But I found that there were some wonderful callbacks to earlier cases that Eve had worked. “Survivor in Death” opens up on a loving and happy family being murdered in their beds. Nixie Swisher, who is 9, ends up being the […]

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3/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:86 |

Write your own ending

Out by Natsuo Kirino

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Last year, the estimable yesknopemaybe reviewed this book and found it arduous and almost iredeemable. But her summary of the book left me fairly curious, especially after reading The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino last year, which sounded vaguely similar. Her comparing it to Crime & Punishment didn’t hurt, considering that’s one of my favorite books. So, given what I expected based on her review, I can honestly say that I was pleasantly surprised for nine-tenths of the book.  Though I did find it grim, even unsettling, I also found it poignant and possibly the angriest book that […]

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3/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

Book Two Doesn’t Work At All

Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver

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The only reason why I gave this book two stars is honestly because I was kind of fascinated by how Deaver looks at internet blogs, comments on those blogs, and how you can start to see how something that he looked back at when this book was published has morphed into what it is today with a lot of people on the internet claiming to be experts on something or how easy it is to spread a rumor about somebody with no factual basis and how it could be picked up and be counted as real news. Other than that […]

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3/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:83 |

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