Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My eyes hurt from rolling them so hard

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

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I have mixed feelings about how to review this book. I wish I had read it without knowing anything about the author or about her story. If I hadn’t known anything, I might have been willing to suspend my disbelief and follow along without any expectations. However, I was already quite prejudiced about the author beforehand. The author spent seven years as a top sales sales leader at Rejuvinat. Rejuvinat isn’t real, but it is the fake name for a well-known cosmetics and wellness brand. […]

The Kind of Man That Deserves to Be Run Down

Peg and Rose Stir Up Trouble by Laurien Berenson

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When Rose encourages Peg to meet up with a man she met on a dating site, the last thing they expect is to see him on the news as the victim of a hit-and-run, let alone to find out that there’s plenty of people who would want to see him dead. This is the second book in the Senior Sleuths cozy mystery series, which follows long-estranged sisters-in-law Rose and Peg as they become better friends and solve murder cases that they unexpectedly stumble into. This […]

He’d spent time rehearsing this serene pose

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This was a kind of a placeholder for me. I’m not allowing myself to reread American Gods again, because I reread it less than a year ago, and I love it too much, and the TV series is coming, and it’s my favorite kind of book, so I had to find a proxy, and this looked super interesting. And it was good, but not amazing (nothing is American Gods, goddamnit!). I think the hardest for me was that Ike is no hero, antihero, complicated scamp, […]

A work of Dickensian depth and breadth

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This nearly 800-page novel is a revelation – it is one of the more complex literary works I’ve read in a long time and proved impossible to put down. The Goldfinch tells the story of precocious 13-year-old Theo Decker, who lives alone with his mother in New York City until their unplanned visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day terrorists decide to blow the museum up. Theo’s mother dies in the disaster, but Theo survives and manages to extricate himself and return […]



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