Cannonball Read 18

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“When she looked at photos of her children when they were little, she sometimes thought, Did I notice how beautiful they were? Was I actually there? Did I just skim the surface of my entire damned life?”

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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Cannonball Read Bingo: Snake I was in the middle of dragging my way through “The Three Body Problem” (good book, but woof, is it dense) and saw this one on a perusal of my library’s “Hot Reads” shelf, the newest from Liane Moriarty. I greatly enjoyed the audio version of “Big Little Lies” and wanted to give her another go, this time reading it the old-fashioned way. I figured it would be a bit of summer fun reading, and I was right. This book is […]

“We were so happy.”

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 24/30 This one was a long time coming. I’ve owned it for years, and recommended it to a handful of friends, most of whom were confused why I was recommending a book to them I hadn’t read, but I know about books even if I haven’t read them! And they liked it! So! This is the second book of two that I had on my TBR that was about a woman getting a head injury and losing […]

“That was the secret of a happy marriage. Step away from the rage.”

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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At this point, I’ve read a lot of books by Liane Moriarty. I’ve liked some better than others, but I’ve found them all interesting. So, it wasn’t difficult to pick up Apples Never Fall (2021) when I saw it was at the library. Although Apples Never Fall wasn’t as compulsively readable as some of her books, there were some good characters with some dysfunctional family dynamics. Stan and Joy Delaney just sold their tennis school, and are figuring out retirement in their empty nest. Their four children: Amy, Logan, […]

My first five star read of 2022. I did not expect this!

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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So I’ve been bemoaning this all over Goodreads for a couple of weeks now, but I’ve been in a five-star drought since 2022 started. (I wonder if it’s because the last book I read in 2021, Harrow the Ninth, was one of the most five-star books I’ve ever read, and the universe is just balancing itself out . . . ) I’ve been waiting, impatiently, to see what book would capture my emotions enough for me to slap that coveted five-star rating on, as I’ve […]

A pretty good read for the holidays

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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The Delaneys are a seemingly normal family with four grown up kids and a mum and dad who have just sold up the family business and retired. That is, until mum goes missing. Family secrets start emerging, dad looks guilty, and the children grapple with whose side they’re going to take. The tension builds nicely from the very beginning (making it a real page turner), with two timelines running side by side – the present, in which mum has disappeared and the past, starting around […]

Some Wellness Resort porn for a year of no travel

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

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Nine Perfect Strangers is a relatively recent (2018) Liane Moriarty novel. A high powered city career woman, Masha, has a heart attack and is born anew- she loses weight, finds new purpose and opens a small wellness resort in the countryside. The novel follows the arrival of 9 guests who will be staying for a week, all with slightly different backgrounds and goals for the week- there is a couple with marital problems (Ben and Jessica), a writer suffering a crisis of career and life […]



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