Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Short and satisfying beach read

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

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 Picked this up off a paperback sale rack when I was looking for a light, easy, vacation read – and it didn’t disappoint. Cecilia accidentally stumbles upon a sealed envelope in her attic – addressed to her by her husband, with the instructions to only open it after his death.  The problem is that her husband is very much alive, and when she asks him about it, it is very clear that he doesn’t want her to open it.   Naturally she does, and discovers a secret that will forever change their lives, as well as the lives of so […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

True crime at its juicy best

Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death by Ann Rule

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This is my first Ann Rule book, which is probably a somewhat scandalous confession for someone who considers herself a murderino. The truth is I hadn’t really read any true crime other than In Cold Blood before becoming a My Favorite Murder fan, I more just watched a lot of true crime shows and movies (The Betty Broderick story anyone!? Anyone? Fist bump? No? Okay.) I obviously would have preferred to start out with The Stranger Beside me, but that wasn’t available from my audiobook service, so instead I got this.   There was one aspect of this story I […]

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7/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

I hate myself a bit for getting sucked into this one….

The Likeness - Dublin Murder Squad #2 by Tana French

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 Ok…after wanting to throw book #1 across the room multiple times, this was a bit of an improvement. It is not so much a sequel, as it is a spinoff, which was interesting.  It didn’t resolve any of my questions from book 1, but at least I didn’t have to deal with the biggest asshole character ever written anymore. The premise in this book is so unbelievable that I rolled my eyes more than once, because, COME ON. Our detective is called to a murder seen where the victim is her doppelgänger, and is using the assumed name that she […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

Deep wells of loneliness

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

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Silas Jones and Larry Ott are two sides of a coin in a small Mississippi town. They meet as children, where Larry is the town comic book reading, horror aficionado weirdo and Silas is the new kid – poor, black, and new to country life. They become friends for a time, bonding over proximity, loneliness, and a shared love of nature and horror. Over time, however, Silas moves on to sports and other friends. Fast forward to adulthood, where ‘Scary’ Larry is a pariah because the town believes he abducted and murdered a girl, and Silas is newly returned as […]

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7/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

If Only the Truth were that this was a good book!

Only the Truth by Adam Croft

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So… I read a short story by Adam Croft, and reviewed it here earlier in June.  I read the short first to see if I liked the author’s writing.  I guess at the time I thought it was ok, because I went on to read this book.  I went back and read my review after finishing Only the Truth, and saw that I really didn’t like the short!  At first I wasn’t really sure why I went ahead and read the book.  Then I read some comments and reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, and realized that I read it BECAUSE […]

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7/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Who is the kind worth killing?

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

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I listened to this as an audiobook, and once again the voice talent elevated the story. There were actually four separate actors that read this story. People kept dying, so two narrators had to be replaced 😁. The story starts out with two people meeting at an airport bar in London. Their flight back to Boston was postponed, so they started drinking and talking. Ted, our main character is some sort of business guy that just found out his wife is cheating on him with his contractor. He’s building a huge fancy house in Maine, and his wife (who didn’t […]

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7/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

We’ll always be troubled by how things are—that’s how it stands with the difficult gift of consciousness.

Nutshell by Ian McEwan

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By the time this came off the wait-list at the library, I had completely forgotten why my friend had recommended it to me, other than the obvious, which is that I love me some Ian McEwan. And what’s interesting to report now that I’ve read Nutshell is that I may have grown out of my McEwan faze, because this checked a LOT of my boxes but ultimately didn’t blow me out of the water. Which is not to say that this isn’t a beautiful book, it’s just a little bit removed from what stirs up my passions right now. I […]

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6/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

I wanted to savor it…

When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson

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This is not my favorite Jackson Brodie book, but Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News? was a wonderful read – especially for the character Reggie. Despite the murders, train wrecks, kidnappings, etc., it is a surprisingly positive book, with lonely characters finding ways to make families, wild goose chases resolving not in surrender but in more wild goose chases, and characters developing and growing in satisfactory ways. Atkinson writes beautifully. She has a witty style and focuses on developing characters that she clearly cares deeply about; the crimes themselves motivate the action, but take back seat to our […]

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6/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

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