Cannonball Read 18

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The Clouds All Form a Geometric Shape

Boom Town by Sam Anderson

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Bingo square: Sportsball I’ve never been to Oklahoma City. If you’d asked me before I read this book what I knew about it, I think I would have had trouble thinking of a single thing beyond tornadoes and the Oklahoma City bombing. I have zero interest in professional basketball, so I’m not even sure I knew they had a team. Thank goodness for the Sportsball square in Bingo, otherwise I never would have read this. Boom Town is the entire story of Oklahoma City, from […]

Add two partial mysteries (one fresh, one aged); hard boil

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“First-person white guy private investigator with a rocky past” is not exactly an original genre, but this one’s a very good entry into the pack. Wyatt Rivers is living a fairly great life in Las Vegas, doing work for casinos and enjoying drinks on the patio with his girlfriend. He takes on a case for a friend whose niece inherited a bar/live music venue and is getting harassed. Unfortunately, the bar is in Oklahoma City, Wyatt’s hometown and the site of some awful stuff from […]

That, O’Malley Supposed, Was Just His Luck

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A sign of a good book is that you find yourself thinking about parts of it long after you’re done reading it.  Lou Berney’s The Long and Faraway Gone is just such a book and this is the second novel I’ve read in the last month that deals with the vagaries of fate (the first being Before the Fall).  The writing is beautiful, and the story is haunting, and even though I finished it back in March, I’ll still chewing on it, figuratively speaking. In 1986, […]



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