Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

Camelot Was Always a Lie

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

by Leave a Comment

CBR16 Bingo: Golden – Callahan attacks the golden myth of Camelot and the Kennedy family, revealing the dark and dangerous truth underneath. Lurking in the darker corners of the Kennedy family legacy are the many women whose lives turned out worse for the association. In this book, Maureen Callahan tries to bring them to light. I’m familiar with many of the people and stories in this book, but Callahan does an excellent job of placing them in context of each other, weaving across generations and decades to […]

This is Not a Review

American Predator by Maureen Callahan

by 2 Comments

For most of my life, I’ve been interested in true crime. I’ve read many books and watched many shows about crime. I probably own hundreds of videos on Amazon about criminal cases. My exposure to crime happened very early in my life. I could read at a very young age, which meant I would sometimes read things I didn’t or couldn’t understand. I remember being terrified of someone shooting me or my family out of the blue. I realized years later it was because I […]

Time to take a break from serial killers, I think

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

Birdman (Jack Caffery #1) by Mo Hayder

by Leave a Comment

(3 stars) American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan This book has a really high (4.1!) rating on Goodreads but I think I’m a little burned out on serial killer books right now. This book was interesting enough, but my main takeaway was the incompetence of the lead prosecutor in the case (or at least how the author perceived that). So I spent most of the book feeling frustrated with the good guys rather than […]

From the CBR Book Exchange, some nightmare fodder

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

by 1 Comment

A big thank you to narfna for this book in the book exchange! I am a big wimp when it comes to horror movies, and can’t handle the idea of re-visiting my previous favorite Stephen King books- but I have a real penchant for true crime. I don’t know why I listen to true crime podcasts without an issue but have to sleep with my head under the covers for a week after thinking too long about  Cujo or the garbage-disposal scene in  Firestarter. It […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo