Cannonball Read 17

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Romeo and Juliet, California Style

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

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There were two old school romances I adored as a teen.  One, reread not too long ago, was Lorna Doone.  And the other was, spoiler, Ramona.  As a SoCal girl, how could I not?  I was very familiar with the locations and history.  As a matter of fact, one of my sons got married at the Rancho Camulos, where the story begins.  It’s a historical site, but since it was owned by the same family until the mid-20th century, it’s a perfect hodge-podge of various […]

Been sleeping on this guy. Even Madonna beat me to it.

Gold by Rumi

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A great first meeting story.  The year was 1244, when Rumi met Shams in a bazaar in Konya, Persia.  Rumi was a young scholar, and Shams, about twenty years older, was a wandering free thinker.  They got to discussing literature, and Shams challenged Rumi to find his own voice.  Over the course of two years of traveling together, Rumi did just that, and produced sixty five thousand some verses.  This book samples that work. I first ran into his name whilst reading a book on […]

Alas, Not As Fun As the Last One, Still Can’t Go Wrong with PM.

The Case of the Crooked Candle by Earle Stanley Gardner

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Quick question for any of you nautical types out there.  You can see from the title that a key clue involves a candle.  Said candle has been burning in an interior cabin on a small yacht, completely unattended for a period of time.  Is this a thing, even in the 1940s?  Seriously, Gardner?  Aren’t those vessels infamously, well, woody?  SMH. OK, aside from blatant safety violations, this case had to do with a lot of trotting back and forth along the Ventura coastline, with the […]

A Mystery I Really Didn’t Need to Have Solved

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Oh my goodness, I really loved this.  Not even sure what genre to put it in.  Fantasy, I guess, but also alternate realities, so maybe science fiction?  Anyhow, that’s a bookshop owners’ dilemma and not mine, so I will just classify it as wonderful. Piranesi, a young man, has been the sole living inhabitant of the House as far back as he remembers.  The House is multi-leveled, multi-winged, and open to the air, the weather, and the sea.  Its vast rooms contain only massive statues […]

Girls Just Wanna Have . . . Fun?

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

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Think Charlie’s Angels facing their sunset years.  Far more deadly and ruthless than Farah Fawcett and her pals though, and there is four of them.  And to celebrate their retirement, the Museum (their employer) is sending them on an all-expenses paid cruise.  Hmmm.  Doesn’t really seem like the sort of thing an assassin agency would do. And of course it’s not.  The crew seems oddly muscular, and Kevin can’t be trusted in the least.  Especially since Billie recognizes him as a fellow agent actually named […]

Who’s Up For a Field Trip to the Murder Room?

The Murder Room by PD James

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The Dupayne is a unique private (and fictional!) museum located on the Hempstead Heath that is dedicated to the interwar years in Britain.  Located in a formerly stately house, most of it is dedicated to archives and is dreadfully scholarly, but there is one room upstairs set aside to highlight the most sensational murders of the period, AKA, the Murder Room.  Needless to mention, it is especially a hit on local field trips.  Who wants to check out the box that a murder victim got […]



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