Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Reviews for this one kept popping up following its November 2018 publication. I’m a bit squeamish and while I like mystery books I don’t read horror. Pluiedenovembre assured me that this one wasn’t scary or gory so I requested it from the library. Like ASKReviews mentioned in her review of this book a few days ago, it is also a very quick read. The chapters are short and crisp, with rapid fire information. Our point of view character is Korede, a nurse in one of Lagos hospitals. She is detail oriented, and likes things to be just so. She is […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

I hope this isn’t how I’ll be going on.

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

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I’ve been seeing the phrase “start as you mean to go on” flying around a lot as we collectively, tentatively tiptoe into 2019. 2018 was an utter disaster for me, and although 2019 is better so far – touch would, knock on wood, hug wood – I’m afraid of jinxing myself. I can’t say that I’m glad I read Zombie, and I very much hope it’s not how the year continues in terms of reading or anything else. I want to add the qualifier, “It’s not a bad book,” but what makes a book bad? I think it’s technically fine, but it’s such a […]

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1/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

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 I even chose it for my book club selection since I’m up this month.  Unfortunately, […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

An illuminating book about the grossness of human behavior.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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I went into this expecting the corruption, murder, institutional racism, etc. against the Osage Indians to be very bad, and I still somehow managed to come out of this book mindboggled. This book should be taught in schools, and it is heinous that these terrible things happened, and just as heinous that so many people covered it up, and practically erased it from history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the US were the Osage. By sheer coincidence, after their tribe was displaced from their ancestral lands, they chose new, rocky, inhospitable lands that they believed white […]

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1/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

When you’re punished, you get bumped to the late show

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This book is somehow the beginning of a series. If you ever read a review of mind before you know that I always start series in the middle, so it’s weird that I started this one of the beginning. Anyway,  This 1st book is about detective Renee Ballard, who was placed on the night shift, which is where the police officers go when they’ve misbehaved. Unfortunately for rene, she didn’t actually misbehave. She just accused her supervising officer of sexual harassment, and nobody backed her up. She’s a good cop stuck on the night shift, and she never gets to […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

More Gideon and Sirius

Gideon's Rescue (A Gideon and Sirius Novel Book 4) by Alan Russell

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This is the fourth book in the Gideon and Sirius series.  I believe I’ve read all four of them in this current Cannonball.  After reading to the end, the author said he’s got at least two more books in the works.  Hopefully I’ll get to read and review them for CBR11! In this book, Gideon ends up working about three cases at once.  They all kind of sneak up on him while he’s going about his life.  He’s volunteering at Angie’s Rescue (or Heather’s Rescue, I can’t remember).  The woman he saved in one of the previous books (Heather) opened […]

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12/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

End of CBR10 panic post!!!

Only the Rain, Dead Even by Randall Silvis, Brad Meltzer

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So my December has been suuuper crazy.  Work is insane, and I’ve been trying to fit in reading with all the extra working I’ve been doing.  I’ve been falling asleep at night without reading, which is not normal for me.  Anyway, even when I have finished books, I haven’t had the time or energy to review them!  I write all day at work (nothing fun or exciting), so sometimes it’s hard to write these reviews after long days of work.  That’s why I’m shoving these two books together. These two books are semi similar in that the main couples don’t […]

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12/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

I don’t want to go into those Dark Places either

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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cbr10bingo…White Whale I accidentally bought this on my Kindle on March 6, 2015.  I don’t think I had even read Gone Girl yet at that point, but I think I had heard about Ms. Flynn.  This has been on my “to read” list for a while now, so I’m calling it my White Whale.  Like I said above, I have the Kindle version, but I wasn’t reading it, and I’m reading another book on my Kindle currently, so I downloaded the audiobook version and I listened to it in my car. This story is really messed up.  We meet Libby Day, […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:55 |


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