Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Which, of Course, Features a Generic Redhead on the Cover

The Case of the Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner

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  cbr16bingo vintage So the forties were boom years in Hollywood, and everybody was looking for a break.  Starlets were a dime a dozen, so when an ad appeared offering a job to young ladies of a certain appearance and some very specific measurements, stating that if they would hang around various street corners for an hour, wearing specified clothes, they might pick up a job.  What can it hurt, right? Mason just happens to pick up on the observation, as he and Della are […]

I Have No Idea Where We Are Going and I Ain’t Mad

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

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cbr16bingo dreams Well, now.  This took quite a few unexpected turns! It starts off as your bog-standard evil house with a few skeletons (cough) in its closets.  Nobody seems to want Baneberry Hall, tucked away in the remote bits of Vermont.  But a young couple, Ewan and Jess, thinks it’s a treat and the price is certainly right.  They move right in with their five year old daughter, Maggie.  They are only there twenty days before they flee in the middle of the night. Ewan […]

Seriously, Who Does That?

Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding

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cbr16bingo bananas The mid-1960s through 1970s were an extraordinary turbulent and bloody period in American history.  Fueled by civil rights protests and the Vietnam War, it was a whole period of what next.  Of course, since these were my high school and college years, it was, for most of us, just the way it was.  Starting in 8th grade with John Kennedy’s assassination, there was the assassination of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the Democratic convention of 1968 in Chicago, Kent State, and the resignation […]

What a Life.

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by ed. Peter Y, Sussman

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cbr16bingo pride Decca, AKA Jessica Mitford, was one of the younger of the six notorious Mitford sisters.  Their parents, a pair of very conservative British aristocrats, raised quite a brood.  There was also a son, but he does not factor much into the account.  Her mother decided that girls had no need for schooling (the boy, of course, went to college), and only allowed them to learn to read.  But that’s all it took.  They came into adulthood in the 1930s, and the oldest, Nancy […]

Vampires in Old Mexico (AKA Texas). What’s Not to Love?

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

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cbr16bingo horses Mexican gothic has, to my surprise, become a new favorite genre for me.  It’s a different flavor from the British gothic that I grew up on, more of a sense of connection between the living and the not-so-much living, that seems to be a part of the Dia de los Muertos Mexican mentality.  So it’s always a treat to get a new sort of being, such as the vampires in this book.  So yes, they want to drink blood for nourishment (not unheard […]

Could Have Used More Tigers.

Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann

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cbr16bingo scandal I was very much predisposed to like this sort of book.  I am a sucker for those mid-century (or earlier) tales of well-to-do families packing up to head out to Cape Cod for the summer; women, children, and the occasional servant, while father stays on in the City, and only comes out for the weekend.  The house is, of course, some eccentric pile of lumber that has been in the family for generations and is known, needless to say, as the Summer Cottage.  […]



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