Cannonball Read 18

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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

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We Solve Murders is the first book I read this year, and still the best. It’s by Richard Osman, writer of the Thursday Murder Club series (which I have since started, and which I also like, but not as much). It’s also probably the first of a new series but so far the only entry. The central pair of sleuths here are a father- and daughter-in-law, which is at least fresh. The daughter-in-law is a high-class bodyguard who’s protecting a super-successful later-in-life author whose main […]

“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.”

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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A few years ago, it felt like everyone and their neighbor were reading The Thursday Murder Club. I was intrigued but hadn’t pulled the proverbial trigger. But here we are and the time has arrived for me to dig in to the story of a group of friends in a retirement village who investigate cold cases for fun, and the new member they invite into their ranks, and the murder that happens that lets them jump into their first in real time crime solving.    This was just the right book to break a two-month reading slump. It […]

Part 10 It’s Going to Come Down to Semantics

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Back Story by David Mitchell

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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Book 46: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher Rough Review: 4 stars! It was already official but I’ll say it again – I’ll read anything by Kingfisher/Vernon. Her books are just comfort food to me at this point. Hemlock wasn’t my favourite (the Paladin books are what I discovered first and the world of the White Rat is my favourite Kingfisher place to be), but the concept was cool and intriguingly creepy, I love a neurodiverse-coded protagonist in her mid-30s who gets to have a […]

I got 3 hours and 52 books. Let’s see if I can finally do this.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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Whelp, I apologize in advance for what I’m about to do. For 17 years I have been trying to complete a full Cannonball and I have never once succeeded. Sometimes I don’t read enough, but mostly I don’t write enough. I get caught up in knots trying to write a perfect review and then worry I’m spending too much time writing instead of reading and it becomes a whole thing because my brain is a nightmare. So this year I decided I’d just write rough […]

In the year 2025, I’m Team Cozy Murders

Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief by Benjamin Stevenson

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

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I’ll be frank: this year hasn’t been easy.  I’m one of the first people to admit I’m sitting in a super-privileged position, and there are loads of people worse off than Mr Wen and I.  And yet.  It’s a world that’s demanded a certain, self-medicating level of whimsy (and, in some cases, Wimsey) (I’m sorry) in the novels I’m escaping into.  I’ve reread Dorothy Sayers, Margaret Maron, and Penny Reid.  I’ve joined The Best Niece in Australia on the Keeper of the Lost Cities train, […]

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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I know this series is popular, but it dragged terribly for me. I started this way back in October and finally finished it the other day. I think the issue is for me is that I watched the Netflix movie first. I just couldn’t get into the book since I kept comparing the movie to the book and I found myself liking the movie better (yes I am hanging my head in shame). I think it’s just because there were too many shifting POVs (and […]



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