Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

About CaribbeanClaire

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I'm a UK Expat who has been living in the Caribbean for 25 years. I love reading and used to have to negotiate how much suitcase space could be devoted to books each time we left the island. Unbelievably I moved to an island without a book shop so I learned to read an eclectic mix of styles and genres as I swapped books with anyone and everyone. Now I read pretty much exclusively on a Kindle (I'm on my 5th one after wearing most of the others out!).

CaribbeanClaire's Reviews:

No, you really shouldn’t

We Shouldn't by Vi Kreeland

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I think it’s probably best never to read a book where you disagree completely with the fundamental premise.   The set up in this book is that two ad agencies have merged and both creative directors have to fight for one job over a series of three pitches to big clients.  Many, many years ago I worked in ad agencies and that portion was not what bugged me.   What I couldn’t get past was the fighting for one job.  I’ve had the misfortune of being involved […]

Based on the cover, you’d think this was about three friends. It’s really not, at all.

Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly

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This was not what I was expecting at all.  I bought it ages ago and it’s been sitting on my Kindle for over a year.  I started it when I was travelling, I did not have the wifi turned on and so did not get the book summary when you open a book for the first time.  All I knew was this was set in WWII and featured three women from different walks of life, whose lives intersected somehow.  Based on the cover, they appear […]

I’m never drinking out of a hotel minibar glass again

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

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I stay in hotels a lot.  Often for only one night at a time.  I recent traveled back to the UK  and for a one week trip to visit family, whom I stay with, I have to stay in 3 different hotels (2 of them airport hotels).  I’m fascinated by the way hotels work, how rooms are allocated and so on.  Why in some hotels when I return to my room mid afternoon has it still not been cleaned?  I’m often checking in super late […]

Completely mis-titled, he was a very nice guy

Not So Nice Guy by R.S. Grey

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I’d completely forgotten the title of this book, reading a Kindle, I am not always aware of the title of the book once I’ve started reading it.  I’m really hoping it’s not just me that does that!!  I genuinely have no idea why the book is titled Not So Nice Guy.  Ian, the titular guy is never not nice.  Ian and Sam (Samantha) meet at new teacher orientation at Oak Hill High School and have been best friends for three years.  They have in the […]

Where do we really belong?

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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This is quite a hard book to review.  It’s basically the story of two families.  The Richardson’s are long established in Shaker Heights, both parents work, one a journalist; one a lawyer and they have four children at high school, all close in age.  The perfect American family.   Enter Mia and her daughter, Pearl.  They are itinerant travelers, having lived in 46 places in Pearl’s 15 years.  Mia is an artist, a photographer to be precise, who sells her photographs through a gallery in New […]

100% Excellent

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

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99 Percent Mine is the second novel from Sally Thorne.  She had a surprise bestseller in the Hating Game which topped many, many 2016 “Best of” lists.   It’s taken her some time to get back into writing (there’s an epilogue which explains this) paralyzed as she was by the success of her debut.   I absolutely loved the Hating Game and have re-read it a number of times so I pre-ordered 99 Percent Mine and was anxiously awaiting it’s delivery to my Kindle. It’s a romance […]



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