Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

There Isn’t an Adequate Title To Tell You How Much I Loathed this Book

The People Next Door by Keri Beevis

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First let me start by stating the title of the book…(glances at another tab), right, right…it’s The People Next Door. As I have been reading this book I’ve been exclaiming to my friends, “I really hate it!” and then they will ask what it’s called and I have given a general plethora of wrong names such as The Next Door Neighbors, Neighbors, The People Who Live Next Door and finally I just started calling it The People Vs. Larry Flint because that was the only title that I […]

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Bring me Back by BA Paris

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I love a good detective novel, but one of my main problems within the genre is that so many of these novels would have been over in less than ten pages if the main characters had just had the common sense to call the police, especially because 90% of the main characters in these novels are white middle class men and women. Someone leaves dead animals on your doorstep? Call the police. You receive threatening emails from someone pretending to be your dead relative? Call […]

To my great surprise and delight, the dog lives!

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So spoiler alert, there’s an awesome dog in this book, and he doesn’t die! To me, that is very important information to have when reading a book. If it’s not important to you, then I really don’t want to know you 😁. A dog dying in a book really sours the whole experience for me. This book is about a serial killer and rapist who everyone thinks is dead. However, obviously he’s not. His last victim survived months and months of rape and torture. She […]



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