Cannonball Read 17

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CBR11Bingo: SCIENCE!

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician, biologist, and oncologist, and this is a book all about genes — a massive and complicated area of science (science!) that he breaks down wonderfully for his readers. The audio book was 20 hours long. It took me an entire road trip to get through. I loved it. The subtitle of The Gene is An Intimate History, and intimate is right. This book is so incredibly detailed — he examines every single aspect of genes: how they affect our personalities, […]

Kate Waters is back!

The Suspect (Kate Waters #3) by Fiona Barton

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This is the third of Fiona Barton’s novels featuring a crime reporter named Kate Waters. Once again, she teams up with Detective Inspector Bob Sparkes to solve a case. This time, however, it hits close to home. Waters starts by looking into the disappearance of two British girls on holiday in Thailand. But soon she learns her own missing son may be involved. “Everyone wants to know the truth. Except those who don’t. Those who stand to lose by it.” I enjoyed this book, which […]

CBR11Bingo: Cannonballer Says

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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I read this on the recommendation of Caitlin_D (Cannonballer Says!) after we both thoroughly enjoyed Quinn’s first novel, The Alice Network. If I remember correctly, Caitlin simultaneously got the audio book and the hard copy from the library, started the audio book and told me to read her copy of the hardback so I could get to it sooner. She’s an American hero. The Huntress flips back and forth between two narratives. During WWII, Nina Markova escapes her violent father and a village in Soviet Russia […]

CBR11Bingo: True Story

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

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In this memoir (True Story!), we meet author Dani Shapiro, who took a DNA test from a genealogy website — just for fun. But when the results came back, it shook her world. It turns out that her father was not her biological father. “After listening to my entire story, he quietly said: “You can say, “This is impossible, terrible.’ Or you can say, ‘This is beautiful, wonderful.’ You can imagine that you’re in exile. Or you can imagine that you have more than one […]

CBR11Bingo: Far and Away

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

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I have read a couple of Jane Harper’s novels (The Dry and Force of Nature, both of which I’d recommend) and what I love about them is the setting: her books take place in Australia (Far and Away!) but not in the cities — they’re set in tiny little towns in the Outback, a place so massive and wild and dangerous that it’s basically its own character. “Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, […]

CBR11Bingo: Pajiba

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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​Dustin Rowles mentioned this book on Pajiba (Pajiba!), and that he loved it so much that he immediately sought out Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I came to it from the opposite direction — I have loved everything else I’ve ever read by Taylor Jenkins Reid and jumped on the waiting list for this one pretty much the moment I heard about it. I was not disappointed. I am a huge fan of oral histories complied into a narrative. I used […]



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