Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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1000Oysters's Reviews:

Unmasked, in which “pellow” appears four times

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

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It is super weird to say you’re a true-crime fan. What exactly is there to be a fan of? There are layers and layers of grossness and weirdness. The story-telling can be exploitative and callous. Someone’s pain is being mined for entertainment. That being said, I am a consumer of true-crime content. I’ve heard some people talk about their fascination with true-crime as a way to process their own anxiety about life’s uncertainty. And others who want to get inside the heads of the perpetrators to […]

A Study in Scarlet

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

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I grew up, and still live, in a state with a significant population of Mormons. There are particular towns where many of the families share the same few names and it is not uncommon to see wedding announcements with the bride and groom having the same last name. In the way of small towns everywhere, you just sort of know the things you know about some people and some places. I went out with a couple of wrestlers while I was in high school and […]

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

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  I accidentally read this series out of order. I read The Haunting of Tram Car 015 sometime last year and sort of pieced my way through the rest in the series until I reached A Dead Djinn in Cairo, which is the first book, this spring. It says something about P. Djèlí Clark’s world-building that each story felt standalone and yet very much grounded in a fully realized world. Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’awari investigates disturbances between the residents of Cairo and the djinn they share their […]

Vows & Years

Vows by LaVyrle Spencer

Years by LaVyrle Spencer

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I don’t remember when I first read a LaVyrle Spencer novel. I do remember that my mother definitely introduced me to them. My mother was a big Danielle Steele fan and I started stealing romance novels off of her bookshelf way, way, way before I should have. My mom didn’t really limit what I read, she just told me if I had questions, I could ask her anything. Thus, I’ve read a lot of romance novels over the years. In my younger years, I could […]

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a story about the infinite possibilities of our own lives. We have all had the thought of “if only I had done this or that, my life would be completely different.” Inherent in that thought, but usually unstated, is “… and then I’d be happy.” What we rarely think about are the moments that if we’d done them differently, would lead us to more heartbreak. Or the things we cherish about our current lives that would be gone […]

Can you solve a murder by knowing what people will do instead of what they have done?

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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Can people change? If they can, will they? On its face, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton is a murder mystery. Aiden Bishop wakes up in a forest with a single name on his mind and no memory of who he is or how he got there. He learns through the day that he is tasked with finding the murderer of Evelyn Bishop and that he has eight chances to solve the case. He will relive the day of her murder eight […]



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