Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Just Take What You Want

The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham

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Agatha is a young pregnant woman working at a convenience store when she sees and is dazzled by the also pregnant but elegant, Meg.  Meg has everything that Agatha could want; money, a handsome husband, and two gorgeous and perfect children. In comparison, Agatha feels like a failure–she has lost several babies, her ex-husband left her (partially because of it), her current boyfriend isn’t speaking to her and doesn’t even know she’s pregnant because he’s in the Royal Navy and she doesn’t have that much […]

I Don’t Know How Anyone Calls This Suspenseful

The Doll House by Phoebe Morgan

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  I guess this is another one of those books where I am apparently too picky.  It got many great reviews on Amazon and Goodreads alike with buzzwords like, “Thrilling!” “Tense” “Suspenseful!” and “Keeps You Guessing Until the End!” None of those things are true from my reading experience.  At all.  Ok, maybe it was a little tense…but not really. (To me) it was not thrilling, suspenseful nor did it keep me guessing until the end, in fact, I figured out the whole situation out […]

Marry Groundhog Day With Clue and Quantum Leap…and then do weird stuff

The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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Aiden wakes up not knowing who he is or where he is…he’s told three rules: Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11 pm. There are eight days and eight witnesses that Aiden will physically inhabit in order to find clues. He can only leave Blackheath House once he can tell “them” who killed Evelyn Hardcastle. This book sounds amazing, right?!? And it was recommended by a person whom I really like and admire her taste in books so I was excited to read it and […]

FRAMED FOR MURDER!!! (Yawn)

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The Guilty Wife was an okay book.   That’s where I’d like to leave this review, but I guess that’s against the rules.  The Guilty Wife, like all books labeled a “psychological thriller” post Gone Girl attempts to be sly and have at least one (possibly two or three) twists.  And quite frankly?  I’m sick of the twists…especially when you can see the big old twist a mile away down the road.  I teach a fiction writing course and I always tell the kids that […]

Nobody’s Perfect

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A bunch of women get together and call themselves the “May Mothers” after meeting on an online chat group for first time expectant parents.  One by one each of the women become mothers and work to deal with the specific challenges that motherhood can present. In this book we see women trying to balance their careers while still being a “good mom”, the trouble with breastfeeding for some, post partum depression (and perhaps even psychosis), achieving intimacy with a partner, and just being able to […]

More Dead Girls

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  One of my favorite authors is Dennis Lehane. He’s a hard author for many because he goes so deep into the violent and depraved nature of people that most of us are blissfully unaware of. He shines a spotlight on the real boogeymen of the world and we can close the book when we’re done and say, “I’m glad this was just a book” and can go back to our normal lives.  I feel like Eric Rickstad is a similar author with similar subject […]



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