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Nothing better than reading Agatha Christie on a train!

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

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CBR11bingo: Summer Read I have long been a fan of Agatha Christie. Last year, when I finally got around to reading Murder on the Orient Express, I was surprised to discover that her writing was, perhaps, not as nuanced as I remembered it from when I used to devour her novels in grade school. So I was pleasantly surprised at Death on the Nile; I’d even hazard to say this might be one of Christie’s best. Although I saw the movie many years ago, I started to doubt my memory of it, and even wonder whether the ending had been […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

But loneliness has a compass of its own

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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After I hit Cannonball, I rested on my laurels a bit too much and now I am behind a couple of reviews! I also slowed way down in the reading department. I read this one a while back for my book club’s November selection. Seems like ages ago. Now I gotta slide these reviews in between making holiday cookies and watching my Christmas Hallmark/Lifetime/Freeform movies. Don’t judge. This is another one of Reese Witherspoon’s  Hello Sunshine  book club selections. Again, I would never have guessed that I would become a fan of her book club recommendations, but here I am. […]

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12/15/2018 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Where I Join Everyone Else in Discovering C.S. Harris

What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris

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Alright, so I completely forgot to review this book when I read it, so you’ll have to forgive me if I’m a little fuzzy on some of the details at this point. I sort of stumbled on this book and thought it was some sort of new, unknown author or something because I had never heard of him. Turns out, I really just live under a rock or something because everyone in the world knows C.S. Harris aside from me. That is really neither here nor there, it was just something funny that happened when I told a couple of […]

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11/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

Dreamy Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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A friend of mine and I were discussing spooky books, something fitting for October and the season of Halloween. We both have read a preponderance of Stephen King, and she came up with this book as something on her “to read” list that could fit the bill.  I read plenty of Agatha Christie back in the day, though only Miss Marple, so Hercule Poirot was a new venture for me. It is worth noting that I went the audio route for this book, which was somehow both awesome and distracting.  This book is read by the dreamy Dan Stevens (British […]

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10/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

Agatha Christie, in the Library, with a Revolver

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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My mother got me into reading — specifically, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey. This turned into a lifetime of love of reading fantasy and science fiction novels. My mother’s favorites, however, were always murder-mysteries and she had a special love in her heart for Agatha Christie. She’s read every book Christie published in multiple languages. She had the entire collection in French! Given all of that, it’s quite surprising that I had never read an Agatha Christie novel until recently and I’m so glad I did! These are the “cozy” mysteries I’m always looking for: mildly creepy, well written, and full of […]

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6/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

Terrifically Beguiling

The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill

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I picked this book up on a whim while at a local thrift store. I had never heard of the author, Colin Cotterill, and I had never heard of the series, featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun.  But, pick it up I did, and, when I needed something to cheer me up after the slog that was the last book I read/reviewed, Half-Blood Blues, this book did the trick. The Merry Misogynist is a mystery set in Laos in 1978.  It features Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-three-year-old coroner who is recently married to a noodle-shop owner, takes in strays (people and animals), […]

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

A rainy and murdery winter pick-me-up

Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason

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In prepping for my move from the south to the Midwest in winter I asked some folks for reading suggestions in two categories: light fluffy happy things to cheer my spirits, and dark winter-y tales to remind me things could be worse, in a schadenfreude sort of way. This is the latter, and it definitely delivered. Set in rainy chilly Iceland, an old man is found murdered in his home. Motive unclear, and nothing too strange other than a note left on the body that says, “I am HIM.” Inspector Erlendur heads the investigation and what begins as a puzzling […]

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2/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

The Night Bird

The Night Bird (Frost Easton Mystery) by Brian Freeman

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The Night Bird (A Frost Easton Mystery) By Brian Freeman This is my very first Cannonball review ever! Hopefully my reviewing skills will improve as we go; I’ve been having a little trouble figuring out how to describe this one. I am going to start off by fully admitting the main reasons I read this book were: 1) it is set in San Francisco and I’m a sucker for home town stories; and 2) it was free on Kindle through Amazon Prime. As this was the case I went in with pretty much zero expectations, I just wanted something I […]

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1/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:1 |


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