Cannonball Read 18

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All Girls Summer Camp? Sounds like a bad idea to me

The Last Time I Lied: A Novel by Riley Sager

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15 years ago, Emma went to summer camp for the very first time.  Being late to arrive, the 13 year old was placed with three girls who were older and were friends already.  There was the queen bee, Vivian, bitchy when she wanted to be, always adventurous and determined.  Natalie and Allison played the role of the queen’s attendents, doing whatever Vivian told them to do. Emma?  Emma just idolized Vivian.  Having been at the camp only two weeks and falling in line with the […]

Having a Sister Sounds “Fun”

My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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I received this book from the lovely Katie for our holiday book exchange. It’s been on my list for awhile but I  hadn’t gotten around to it.  Until yesterday.  Yesterday I sat and read the entire book, it’s a very fun read…which seems like a weird thing to say if you found out that your beloved sister is a 5’2″ gorgeous dynamo of a serial killer, possessing a very large knife to commit her crimes.  Luckily for Ayoola (the serial killer), her older less attractive […]

Harrowing

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

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Technically, I finished this book about an hour before the calendar ticked over to 2020, but it still counts to CBR12! The fact that I was reading that late on NYE gives you an insight into the intensity of this book. I simply couldn’t put it down as it reached it’s crescendo. Bird Box is a psychological paranormal thriller about the end of the world, told through the eyes and ears of Malorie – a women holding it all together for the sake of those […]

“From a purely physical standpoint she didn’t have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.”

The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson

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This whole re-read  review is chock full of spoilers. I want to talk more about Dragan Armansky’s idea that Lisbeth is the perfect victim. I touched on it in my 2012 review, but it has stayed with me. Everything in this book points to him being right. Lisbeth’s past, and current events involving the triple murders that Lisbeth is blamed and hunted for, they perfectly prime her to be someone who is easily blamed or taken advantage of. The first thing being she doesn’t trust […]

Book to Film: The Talented Mr. Ripley

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Patricia Highsmith wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley in in 1955. She based it loosely on Henry James’s The Ambassadors (which I now have to add to my to-read list). The lead character, Tom Ripley, proved so popular, that she brought him back for four more novels. When the reader first meets Tom he is living close to the bone in New York City, subsisting on his “friends,” or running various schemes, including mail fraud. But Tom isn’t really great at his schemes, and he doesn’t like […]

You will never find a Romanov conspiracy that I will not read.

The Lost Daughter by Gill Paul

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It wasn’t long after reading Gill Paul’s The Secret Wife, that I learned of her second Romanov conspiracy novel. As previously stated, I AM HERE FOR IT. I don’t care what the premise is, or how far-fetched, I will eat it right up. In this novel, Paul focuses the story on Maria (which, much like in The Secret Wife, it’s so fascinating to read a theory about someone other than Anastasia). Half of this novel focuses on Maria herself, starting just before the family massacre […]



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