Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


How can one drowning rat save another?

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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I really try to write reviews shortly after I read the book. If I don’t, books often tend to quickly fall to the bottom of my memory well. I can tell you whether I liked a book or not, but that’s about it. I may have waited too long on this one, but here goes. Psychotherapist, Theo Faber, is just starting a new job at an institution for the criminally insane. From the beginning of the novel, he is a little fanboy about a particular […]

I would like the next one to be released ASAP, please?

The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas

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Spoiler warning! This is book 3 in an ongoing series. For those who prefer to go into a series completely unspoiled, this review will probably reveal details about the earlier books in the series. The story will also make a lot more sense if you start at the beginning, with A Study in Scarlet Women.  From Goodreads: Under the cover of “Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective,” Charlotte Holmes puts her extraordinary powers of deduction to good use. Aided by the capable Mrs. Watson, Charlotte draws those in need […]

Badass lesbian detectives ftw

The Dime by Kathleen Kent

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4.5 stars. This book left me with a massive book hangover. Incredibly violent in almost every way, so just a content heads up if you’re thinking about reading this. If you like mysteries and you haven’t given this one a chance, I would snag it as soon as you can. Betty Rhyzyk is tough as fucking nails, not surprising since she comes from a long line of Brooklyn police detectives. She never thought she’d leave New York, but finds herself in Dallas with her partner […]

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it back

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

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After a string of mediocre reads starting in mid-March and culminating in my first DNF of the year, I needed a win. I was just getting over the worst of the flu but pretty much still couch-bound and sick of TV, and I just wanted something easy and enjoyable to read. Turns out, the answer was staring me in the face. Literally. On the shelf beneath the TV, Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories looked up at me and said Trust in me, only in me. (I […]

Whew

2666 by Roberto Bolano

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This isn’t going to be a conventional review because I don’t know what to say about 2666 or really make of it. I know it’s an excellent novel; it felt like Bolaño was writing through me rather than to me. But to summarize it the way I normally do (plot, good points, bad points, summation) won’t do it justice. So this is going to be a grab bag of thoughts about a stirring, complex, difficult, beautiful, exhausting, breathtaking book. -The five story lines connected in a way […]

So So Installment in the World of VI

Shell Game by Sara Paretsky

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I don’t even know what to say about this one. It was so far fetched that two of VI’s investigations would even link up. I still love this series though because it’s great to read about a strong female character who chose to remain single and not have children. That’s not to say that VI does not enjoy gentlemen companions, she’s okay without them though. “Shell Game” has her investigating a police matter involving Lottie’s nephew. She also gets a call from a niece by […]



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