Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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The Title Pretty Much Says it All

Pursuit by Thomas Perry

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Bingo: Left. Main antagonist leaves home to start his “life of adventure” as he puts it, a life of crime Thomas Perry’s Pursuit is not really a mystery and not quite a thriller. Two men—one a killer for hire, the other not much different but with a little less sociopathy—chase each other around the country to kill the other one. Varney, the main antagonist, is a young man with a dysfunctional family background. He leaves home for what he calls “a life of adventure” and […]

June 2022 Leftovers

The Cage by Bonnie Kistler

Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg

Gone 'Til November by Wallace Stroby

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

Survivor's Guilt by Robyn Gigl

The Old Man by Thomas Perry

Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy

The Drop by Michael Connelly

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

The Fury of Blacky Jaguar by Angel Luis Colón

He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

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I was dealing with work turmoil and on vacation for most of June so I didn’t get the chance to write as many in depth reviews as I’d have liked to. Which is a shame because some of these deserved a longer look; I just didn’t have the time or energy… The Cage **** I went back-and-forth on my review. I’ve been giving out a lot of 4-star reviews lately and considered docking the book for that reason since it’s very borderline. But the more I […]

Meh. I read it for the bingo square.

Strip by Thomas Perry

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This was the first Thomas Perry novel I’ve read, and it moved up my TBR list specifically because I needed a yellow book for CBR bingo. I was expecting ‘detective novel’ but this is more of a ‘thriller’- the detective, Lieutenant Slosser, is a bit part character who takes a backseat to the dueling main characters, aging strip club owner Manco Kapak, the man Manco thinks robbed him, Joe Carver, and the man who actually robbed him, Jefferson Davis Falkins.  While Manco is busy sending […]

Somebody wanted to kill the whole LAPD bomb squad

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cbr10bingo… Brain Candy Ok so this book is about a bomb maker who’s planting bombs throughout Los Angeles in the hopes of killing bomb squad technicians.  How is this brain candy you ask?  Well, to me building a bomb, and/or diffusing a bomb is escapism.  I will never do either in my life, and hopefully never even see one, so it doesn’t get more escapy than that! I read the audiobook version of this book.  At first, I almost laughed out loud at the guy’s […]



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