Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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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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In Old New York

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

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  With the revival of the Tony-Award winning musical just recently opening on Broadway (I have tickets for later this week!) I thought it was a good time to refresh my memory of E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel, Ragtime. I first read the novel at the suggestion of my father somewhere around 20 years ago, so I had no recollection of the plot and characters at all, really. The plot is a bit hard to summarize. Doctorow takes a sort-of panoramic approach to American life from […]

Life of a Wife Guy

A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri

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Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde among many other works, was born in Scotland in 1850 and died in Samoa in 1894. In those forty-four years, he packed in a lot of travel alongside all that writing. Much of the travel was for health reasons: at the urging of doctors he was constantly looking for more temperate climates to ease his frequent attacks and hemorrhages. Confined to his nursery as chronically ill […]

Unlucky Coins

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

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The fifth entry in the Thursday Murder Club series takes place at some remove from the prior novel. It’s been long enough for Joyce’s perpetually single daughter Joanna to meet a man named Paul, fall in love with him, and get married. It has not quite been long enough for former spy and (spoiler alert for the fourth novel) recent widow Elizabeth to get back to her old self. At Joanna’s wedding, a large-small affair that nearly breaks the always fragile bond between mother and […]

Dud Avocado

The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer

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The Hotel Avocado is a sequel to Mortimer’s 2023 novel The Satsuma Complex, also published as The Clementine Complex in the U.S. In that novel, 30-year-old Gary Thorn, a legal assistant and perpetual screw-up, gets involved in a police investigation of his co-worker’s death while also trying to track down an intriguing woman who ghosted him around the same time. It was a charming novel chock-full of Mortimer’s trademark brand of absurdist, off-handed humor. (For the uninitiated, Mortimer is a British comedy legend, and a […]

Not What You Expect To Happen in a Locked Room on Your Wedding Night

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

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Seishi Yokomizo is, at least according to Amazon, one of Japan’s most popular mystery writers. His series of novels featuring amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi have only recently started being published in English translations, and The Honjin Murders is the first of the series. Kenzo Ichiyanagi is a the scholarly head of his influential family, who live in a mansion in a rural village, with a separate “annexe house” on the property. Some of the family have gathered at the estate for Kenzo’s wedding to a […]

Round on the Ends, High in the Middle

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

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In the fictional town of Bonhomie, Ohio, the lives of four people, two married couples, are forever changed by an impulsive decision made on V-E Day, 1945. The aftermath will reverberate well into the next generation in ways that are both explosive and predictable, as Ryan maps out his characters’ lives in conjunction with the sweep of mid-twentieth century American history. While Buckeye is fresh and exciting at the start, Ryan’s inability to commit to the story leads the book to devolve into something akin […]



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