Cannonball Read 18

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Her husband’s secret could destroy multiple families AND This one will be their last anniversary

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

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So my sister has been reading and recommending to me Liane Moriarty books for a few years.  I have sooo many books on my TBR list, so it took me a while to get started.  I found this one on my library’s audiobook loan list.  Not only was it an awesome book, it was read by an Australian, so it sounded even more awesome.  I was listening to this book in my car and while I walked my dog at night around the park.  I’m […]

Well, let’s not say PERFECT…

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

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As always, even a flawed Moriarty book is still pretty damn good. This one, like every one I’ve read this far, was enjoyable and a brisk read, in part due to Moriarty’s skill with plotting and perspective – she really excels in showing her characters from all sides, letting us get to know and like one person while seeing how another equally likable person could detest them.  But Nine Perfect Strangers should perhaps have been Six Perfect Strangers instead; this book butts right up against […]

Triplet sisters running amok in Australia

Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

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The first book I read by Liane Moriarty was Big Little Lies. I loved it and went on to read What Alice Forgot, The Husband’s Secret, and Truly Madly Guilty. In the books I’ve read so far, Moriarty has a very clear pattern with her plots. She begins with a vague description of some kind of “event” that has occurred, but only gives the reader enough details to pique their interest. Then she goes back however many months or years are necessary, and we learn about the characters, their […]

The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.

The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

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Every time I find a Liane Moriarty book that I haven’t read yet, I celebrate. However much I end up liking the book, I know that I’m in for some kind of treat. Her writing is engaging, and her characters lively. No exception here. I quite enjoyed the book, despite some irritation at one of the character arcs. It might be my second favorite Moriarty book. The book is about the various relationships between sisters, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, and friends. Oh sure, there is the […]

One wish

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Damn, Liane, why you gotta do my girl Catriona like that? I love that Moriarty doesn’t spare any of her heroes or demonize her villains utterly, but this was as brutal to Catriona as any of Moriarty’s writing is capable.  I won’t lie and say that it didn’t have a lot to do with seeing a lot of myself in Cat, the triplet (with flighty spacey Gemma and no-nonsense Lyn rounding out the trio) whose mundane happiness is made more interesting with a cynical streak, […]

Big Little Cannonball

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In addition to being my 52nd book for CBR10, this is the perfect selection for bingo – for god’s sake, my Brain Candy choice has an exploding lollipop on the front cover. I’m so happy this one’s my cannonball book, I just adore Liane Moriarty’s writing. I’ll read pretty much anything she’s written, and I’m reaching the end of that list, so soliciting recommendations from my fellow cannonballers in this wheelhouse.  Her books are saucy without being trashy, serious without being grave, and always a […]



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