Cannonball Read 18

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First Lie Wins: the spy thriller that wasn’t

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

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mood music: Secrets – the weeknd Yet again, I find myself in the minority opinion after my latest “read.” I chose to listen to the audiobook version of this title while nursing a cold, and while the first third of the story was intriguing and well-paced, the latter two-thirds fell apart for me in a way that I had to read a summary to understand what happened at the end. To me, it felt like there were a lot of plot points that were left […]

Unfortunately, I am too firmly on Team Charles to really enjoy this…

Younger by Pamela Redmond Satran

Older by Pamela Redmond

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“How are you going to be come a brand-new person if you keep acting like your same old self?”   “That was an aspect of youth I didn’t think, no matter how good my makeup or my acting skills, I’d be able to reclaim: the belief that if you were smart or ambitious enough, you could make your life turn out exactly as you wanted.” Fresh from her divorce—40 Something Alice needs to rejoin the workforce. Twenty years of being a stay at home mom […]

This book was faintingviolet-nip

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This book was like catnip to me. It was faintingviolet-nip. I have been having trouble the past few weeks sinking into books, which is why there has been an uptick in novella reviews from me. I have no less than three books currently sitting open at home, plus an audio book underway, but this Saturday I wanted to read none of them. It was time for a trip to the non-fiction aisle, and thankfully I had ordered The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the […]



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