Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

My First Le Carre

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels Book 1) by John Le Carre

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So this book was originally published in the 1960’s I believe.  You can tell only a little bit in my opinion.  Obviously the technology is very dated, and the way of doing things is a little bit too.  It didn’t really bother me though.  I got caught up in the action and the stories.  George Smiley has a lot of stories. This is the first book where Smiley appears.  There’s apparently seven books with him as the main character.  I like him.  It’s really hard not to.  He’s a former spy, and a current security agent of some sort?  I’m […]

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5/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Even Idiots Occasionally Speak the Truth Accidentally.

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Whose Body?   I discovered Dorothy L. Sayers a few years ago but I have only read a few of her mysteries and all out of order.  For this year’s Cannonball, I’m going to attempt to read them all.  It’s a bit challenging since the books were originally published during the 1920s.  They are popular enough to be easily available in print and ebooks.  However my local library doesn’t stock all of them and this is going to get expensive.  Luckily like even the worst episode of Parks and Rec, I will want to revisit these books often. This is […]

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3/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Harry, stop objectifying the Queen of Air and Darkness. She will END YOU.

Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) by Jim Butcher

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This re-read has been a success so far. Weird, but good weird. It was weird revisiting the first three books, which I originally didn’t like enough to continue the series, on audio for the first time. I knew that James Marsters was a huge part of the reason I ended up liking this series so much, but I don’t think I realized just how much until starting this re-read. I liked the first three books more on re-read in large part because I’m invested in this world and these characters now, but it’s also just super fun to listen to […]

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11/21/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:142 |

“What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? You were sleeping the big sleep.”

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

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The biggest mistake I made when reading this 1939 hardboiled detective classic was that I checked it out from the library. There were so many clever or insightful passages that I wanted to underline but I couldn’t. Since I am a good citizen, I didn’t mark up the library book. Still, I had so much fun reading this one. Even though it’s over seventy-five years old, the book pops with intriguing characters, real danger, and straight razor dialogue. While I don’t have my favorite quotes and passages readily available, I do have the residual joy that comes from reading the work of […]

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11/12/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:33 |

What are we?………Werewolves, not Swearwolves.

The Dresden Files (books 2-3) by Jim Butcher

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Last year, I read the Old Man’s War series by John Scalzi, and struggled to put together reviews for the latter books. After awhile, there really isn’t much to say when every book in a series is as consistently good and enthralling as the ones that preceded it. So, with The Dresden Files (which I plan on reading in its entirety), I’m just going to throw a bunch of reviews into a few posts. Here are the first couple: Fool Moon (Book 2) – 4 stars The consensus seems to be that the first 3-4 books in the Dresden Files […]

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3/3/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:22 |

Cowboys can be detectives too

World's Greatest Sleuth!: A Holmes on the Range Mystery by Steve Hockensmith

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I first discovered Steve Hockensmith in my library with his Pride and Prejudice and Zombies books. While I am a big fan of the original Pride and Prejudice, I thoroughly enjoyed Hockensmith’s addition of the zombies and his humour, so looked for more of his books. Happily, my library has the Holmes on the Range mystery series as audiobooks, and I listened to the first four in quick succession. By the last one, The Crack in the Lens, it was getting a little repetitive and I didn’t enjoy it as much, but still hoped there would be more. And recently I […]

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12/30/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:9 |

Killing Kinsey

G is for Gunshoe, H is for Homicide, and I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton

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These novels are solid time-fillers. Nothing earth-shattering, nothing (too) offensive. I’m a wee bit tired of the fat-shaming and woman-judging. It sucks me right out of the enjoyment of the mystery, but a few pages later I can forget it ever happened. G is for Gumshoe Kinsey turns 33 years old, her apartment is under loving re-construction. This mystery takes place out of town for the most part, in the Mojave Desert. She is hired by another Santa Teresa resident to locate her missing mother. While on the road Kinsey gets a call warning her that a hit man has […]

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4/13/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:12 |

Kinsey Keeps Going

D is for Deadbeat, E is for Evidence, and F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton

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D is for Deadbeat starts out with a load of bullshit. We’re told from the beginning that ‘Alvin Lomardo’ is lying to Kinsey and she’s buying it. She even takes a check from him, which of course bounces three days later (ah, the days of checks). This leads Kinsey to LA in search of ‘Alvin’, where we find his very young wife with a shiner and no furniture because he sold everything right before he split. His name is not Alvin, and he’s probably back up in Santa Teresa. Dead and washed up on the beach. Now Kinsey is left […]

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4/12/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:9 |

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