Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Magic! Paper Dogs!

The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

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Reading an incredibly disappointing novel, for me, makes me long for something simple and easy. Luckily, the book I’d chosen from all the ones waiting on my Kindle was perfect for that. Charlie Holmberg’s The Paper Magician is the first in a series of fantasy novels about a young apprentice magician, Ceony Twill. Ceony has just finished her studies at the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined; much to her chagrin she has been assigned an apprenticeship with a paper magician. Ceony had always wanted to work with metal, and once you’re bonded to a material that is the […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Coney Island Love Story

The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman

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There are certain settings I think automatically lead to interesting stories worth exploring. Two of them are early 20th century New York and ‘freak shows.’ Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things takes both of these on. Museum is the story of Coralie, a talented swimmer playing mermaid in her father’s museum of unusual people, animals and artifacts, and Eddie, a Russian Jewish immigrant with a serious chip on his shoulder and a talent for photography. There are many things I disliked about this novel, so let’s start with what I do think worked. The overall story is compelling, or […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Paranoia Paranoia Everybody’s Coming to Get Me

The Trespasser by Tana French

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The problem with finding an excellent series is that you eventually run out of material to consume. Such is the case now with Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad; I finished The Trespasser last week and now I want to know how long I have to wait before the seventh installment is published. Will there BE as seventh installment? I hope so. Trespasser is unique thus far in the series in that it focuses on the same two detectives as the previous entry, Antoinette Conway and Stephen Moran. Sure enough, Moran’s assistance on the boarding school murder case in the previous […]

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10/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

Sad Babies Ruined It for Me

Frog Music by Emma Donaghue

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Emma Donaghue’s Frog Music should have been a slam dunk for me. It’s a period piece murder mystery with a European element. I regret to say that it fell a little short of the mark for me. I think most people would enjoy the novel, however, so this won’t be an entirely negative review. Frog Music tells the story of the murder of Jenny Bonnet, a cross-dressing, walking, talking Mark Twain character in 19th century San Francisco, and the efforts of her friend Blanche Beunon, a professional dancer and companion, to discover the culprit and bring them to justice. This […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

Hillbillies Among Us

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

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Every year my book club members submit 2-3 suggestions for us to tackle for the upcoming year; we all vote and then the top choices make the cut. I remember seeing J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis described as something we should read to understand how Trump was elected. I was still raw and reeling from the election so I voted against this book. I was sick to death of trying to empathize with people who voted against their own interests for a megalomaniacal moron with no experience, no actual plans, and […]

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8/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Teen Angst

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

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I love to take young adult lit to the beach. It’s great for breezing through in a few days usually, and often doesn’t require that strict attention be paid to every single line. I brought Sarah Dessen’s Just Listen to the beach with me a few weeks ago but it turns out that was a silly first time mom mistake. Ha! Reading more than one book at the beach with a toddler? I was a fool. In any case I still read it when I came home and it was a nice breezy (ish) read before I dug into the […]

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8/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Teenage Drama Queens and the Detectives Who Interview Them

The Secret Place by Tana French

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The other night I stayed up past midnight reading Tana French’s The Secret Place. This fifth installment in the Dublin Murder Squad series was back to form, mostly, and I couldn’t put it down. Secret Place stars detective Stephen Moran (who we met in Faithful Place), who is working Cold Cases but still hoping he’ll make it on the Murder Squad. His chance comes when Holly Mackey (daughter of Frank, star of Faithful Place as well) comes to visit his office with some evidence about an old murder at her private boarding school. Holly is now 16 and attending Hilda’s, […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

I Missed Marple

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

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I just remembered that I finished another book while I was on vacation. Sadly, the fact that I totally forgot about it probably gives y’all a clear indicator how I’ll review it. Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage (the first appearance of Miss Marple) was kind of a bummer and makes me wonder how well I’ll enjoy the other Marple mysteries I bought on my Amazon Agatha Christie binge. Vicarage centers on a small little town in England (name already forgotten), where a middle-aged vicar lives a quiet life with his young wife Griselda. The town has a smattering […]

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8/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |


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