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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New Sheriff in Town

All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

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Titus Crown is overqualified to be the sheriff of rural Charon County, Va. He went to UVa on a football scholarship, Columbia for grad school, and spent a decade working on domestic terrorism cases with the FBI. But after a raid gone bad at a fundamentalist compound, Titus moved back into his childhood home and ran for sheriff, hoping to clean up a history of racial prejudice and corruption. His first big challenge comes when a troubled young Black man walks into the local high […]

From Russia, With Love

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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I went into Doctor Zhivago with no small amount of trepidation, not just because of its length and complex plot, but because of my history with this edition’s translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. In our previous encounters, I have been stymied by their translations, which always seem clunky and impenetrable to me. They ruined my experience reading The Master and Margherita, and several times since I’ve abandoned plans to read one Russian classic or another because the only translation available was theirs. Because Doctor […]

Triple Dutch

Three Ordinary Girls by Tim Brady

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Three Ordinary Girls is a non-fiction account of Dutch teenagers Hannie Schaft, Truus Oversteegen and her sister, Freddie Oversteegen. The trio became active in the Dutch resistance during WWII, hiding Jewish people fleeing the occupying Nazis, conducting spy missions and even carrying out assassinations. It’s a remarkable story well deserving of a great book, but on that score author Tim Brady has fallen short of the mark. Brady’s account is unfocused and often feels like it is substituting minimally researched information about the Netherlands in […]

My Darling Satsuma

The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

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Bob Mortimer is a UK comedian whose panel-show appearances are legendary. His best work is on the show Would I Lie to You?, where the combination of his quick wit and utterly insane lifestyle make his preposterous tales impossible to assess for veracity. Listening to Mortimer unwind a real corker of a tale is a joy to behold, whether or not he’s telling the truth. Thus I was highly intrigued when I heard he had written a novel. The Satsuma Complex (published in the U.S. […]

Hate-Ashbury

The Girls by Emma Cline

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In 1969 California, fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd is drifting aimlessly through her last summer before being shipped off to a boarding school at her newly-divorced mother’s insistence. Her father is shacking up with his secretary in a Palo Alto apartment and Evie’s best friend Connie is starting to get annoyed at Evie’s pathetic crush on her brother. Whether she realizes it or not, she’s in a vulnerable position, which perhaps explains why her chance run-in with Suzanne Parker affects her so deeply. Suzanne is nineteen, a […]

Like a Lead Balloon

Elevation by Stephen King

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g With only a few audio book hours left in my Spotify account for the month, I decided to cross this brief novella off my list. Stephen King, the king of premises, has come up with another intriguing idea. His main character, Scott, is a generic good guy Mainer who abruptly realizes that despite looking just the same as he always has, he is steadily losing weight. Ever more curiously, he weighs the same clothing or unclothed. He even weighs the same when he’s holding […]



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