Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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So I’ve started a new series! Still trying to fill my Bosch hole (TM that nasty sounding phrase)

(Stone Barrington #1) New York Dead by Stuart Woods

(Stone Barrington #2) Dirt by Stuart Woods

(Stone Barrington #3) Dead in the Water by Stuart Woods

(Stone Barrington #4) Swimming to Catalina by Stuart Woods

(Stone Barrington #5) Worst Fears Realized by Stuart Woods

(Stone Barrington #6) L. A. Dead by Stuart Woods

(Stone Barrington, #7) Cold Paradise by Stuart Woods

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I read these books over the course of the year. I did read them in order, but not all consecutively. I just thought it would be appropriate to review them all together since it’s a new series for me, and a few of them have characters and storylines that connect to each other. Books 5 through 7 are actually my most recently read books (32 – 34 for the year), but they all fit in this post. Like I said in my title, I’m still […]

Not-so Perfectly Matched

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Let’s just start off by saying that Jodi Picoult isn’t my favorite author, but sometimes she makes you think, and sometimes, she can put both sides of an argument on the table in a narrative form that can be somewhat entertaining.   Picoult is sort of a guilty pleasure for me, except I rarely enjoy it, and Perfect Match was no exception.  While it is meant to be a gripping and tense narrative about the explosion of lives after the molestation of a small boy […]

The real book 3 in the Anna Curtis series (I apparently started at book 4 – so confusing)

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This book continues Anna & Jack’s relationship. They’re engaged, & ready to combine their lives. On the night they actually get engaged, a brothel bust goes terribly wrong. Two people get killed, & we’re introduced to MS-13, the Salvadoran street gang. Their motto is rape, torture, kill (or something along those lines). The acknowledgements at the end of the book note that although the story is fiction, the cases are based on real gang cases in D.C., & obviously MS-13 is a real gang. The […]

Anna Curtis is back for more. More murder that is.

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Ok so in book 1, (which I reviewed recently), Anna falls for a sleazy defense attorney, and things go bad.  By the end, she’s with the homicide chief attorney.  In book 2 (this one), she’s happily domesticated with the homicide chief attorney (he has an actual title, but I really can’t remember it).  She’s also back to work a high profile murder case of an escort who was pushed off the balcony of a senator/congressman (shame on me, I don’t know the difference). I’m not […]

Book 1 of a series I accidentally started at book 3

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Like the title says – I accidentally started this series at book 3.  Mostly because I didn’t know it was a series.  So, once I figured it out, I thought I should start from the beginning.  I really liked this book.  I wasn’t surprised, since I really liked book 3 of the series.  The actual main character (Anna) is the same, and some of the peripheral characters are too, but it’s a very different story. Anna starts out in the lower ranks of of the […]

How far would you go to save your sister? I’d go very very far.

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Ok, so I read this book in 2 days.  It was fantastic.  The subject matter couldn’t have been more up my alley – crime drama / sisterly love / another woman / corruption.  This was one of those books I couldn’t put down. It all starts out with a beloved (by the whole town) coach’s grisly death.  Jody – the sister of Anna (who is the main character in this series – which I didn’t even know was a series) is accused of killing him, […]



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