Cannonball Read 17

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39 years old. New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Not Berry Nice

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

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1n 1962, a family of Mi’kmaq tribe members from Nova Scotia travel to Maine for the summer to pick blueberries, as they have done for years. Near the end of this particular season, tragedy strikes when their youngest child, Ruthie, disappears without a trace one day. The local police are indifferent and the farmer pretty quickly insists that the family get back to work since their missing daughter “isn’t his problem.” Though the family keeps the search going for a long time, eventually they stop […]

Raise the Red Flag

All Fours by Miranda July

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For years I’ve been perturbed by a certain segment of BookTok and other literary-based social media which is preoccupied with so-called “red flag” books. These are usually novels like Infinite Jest or Catcher in the Rye. Any man who proclaims a red flag book as his favorite is to be avoided, apparently. While I take the point that many a young man has taken the wrong lessons from a work of fiction, I tend to think that these books can be and often are admired […]

Dammit, Jerry!

Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation by Jim O'Heir

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Amy Poehler, Rashida, Jones, Nick Offerman, Adam Scott, Aubrey Plaza, and Aziz Ansari. These are just a few of the stars of Parks and Recreation who didn’t bother talking to Jim O’Heir for this book. In both title and jacket copy, Welcome to Pawnee bills itself as a comprehensive, behind the scenes account of the beloved NBC sitcom, which ran for seven seasons and garnered a small but fervent fanbase. O’Heir was, of course, the actor behind sad-sack office punching bag Jerry Gergich. As a […]

A Bunch of Neanderthals

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

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Creation Lake, a very buzzy novel from last year, is a spy novel not content with “merely” being a spy novel. It’s protagonist is a freelance agent, currently on an assignment to infiltrate a commune of environmentalists living in the French countryside. She is meant to find out if they are planning any violent protests due to some recent pro-business policies put in place by the French government, or possibly to foment some plans if none are currently in the works. Not even the reader […]

Bandit on the Run

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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Antonio Sonoro’s family has fallen on hard times. Though his namesake grandfather was an incredibly rich and powerful mine owner, the family fortune was destroyed by his greed and cruelty, to the extent that Antonio lives on dirt farm with his wife and two children, living near starvation due to prolonged drought. Antonio has turned to banditry as a more lucrative profession, though he curiously tends to give a lot of his ill-gotten goods away before they make it home. But now, in extremis, Antonio […]

For the Defense

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

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The second novel in the Lincoln Lawyer series starts off with protagonist Mickey Haller, Jr. in rough shape. He’s been out of commission since the events of the first novel left him with an addiction to pain pills. Now out of rehab, Haller is weighing a return to the courtroom when he’s gift-wrapped a present he would rather not have. His colleague Jerry Vincent has been murdered, shot dead in his car, and it turns out that he had written a provision in his will […]



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