Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Road Trip!

November Road by Lou Berney

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I’ve just about had my fill of fiction books devoted to the Kennedy assassination. Yet since I needed to read a novel involving a family road trip for my local library’s bingo, I took this on. Lou Berney is one of those writers I should like more than I do. He writes fun, detailed crime novels that are well-paced and hold my attention. But I couldn’t even get through half of The Long and Faraway Gone. I was curious as to why. Reading the slimmer November Road provided me […]

Add two partial mysteries (one fresh, one aged); hard boil

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“First-person white guy private investigator with a rocky past” is not exactly an original genre, but this one’s a very good entry into the pack. Wyatt Rivers is living a fairly great life in Las Vegas, doing work for casinos and enjoying drinks on the patio with his girlfriend. He takes on a case for a friend whose niece inherited a bar/live music venue and is getting harassed. Unfortunately, the bar is in Oklahoma City, Wyatt’s hometown and the site of some awful stuff from […]

That, O’Malley Supposed, Was Just His Luck

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A sign of a good book is that you find yourself thinking about parts of it long after you’re done reading it.  Lou Berney’s The Long and Faraway Gone is just such a book and this is the second novel I’ve read in the last month that deals with the vagaries of fate (the first being Before the Fall).  The writing is beautiful, and the story is haunting, and even though I finished it back in March, I’ll still chewing on it, figuratively speaking. In 1986, […]



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