Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Kate Quinn Has Cracked the Code for a Great Read

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn is a triumph.  A wonderful historical fiction with a little bit of everything – history, humor, romance, and  mystery.   The pages come alive with a mix of  great fictional characters, alongside real historical figures.  The plot centers around Bletchley Park during World War II, where mostly women worked as codebreakers trying to crack the German and Italian codes.  Today we know that their work was critical to the allied victory, but back then their work was strictly classified and […]

More Like Crazy Ramblings of a Mentally Ill Cat/Book Lady

Confessions of a Curious Bookseller: by Elizabeth Green

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Like most booklovers I am always drawn to books about bookstores and libraries.  I enjoy that niche genre about the down on her luck, lonely, bookstore owner (always a woman) who is struggling to keep her business afloat.  They usually end very predictably with the store and the store owner being saved by some miraculous influx of money and a handsome prince charming.  So, I picked up Confessions of a Curious Bookseller by Elizabeth Green, expecting to read your typical bookstore book. The plot is […]

Don’t check into room 712 at the Bellweather Hotel!

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

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Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia takes place in a run-down hotel in the Catskills.  It once had its heyday, but now its only big event is hosting a statewide music festival weekend for high school students.  Fifteen years ago, a bride shot her husband and hung herself on their wedding night in  room 712.  This event has haunted the hotel, the young girl who made the tragic discovery, and the concierge.  Fifteen years to the day later, statewide gets turned upside down when a musician […]

When a Bot has feelings

Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson

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Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson is a hard book to explain.  Partly because it defies genre and partly because it isn’t really about what it appears to be about.  Let’s start with the genre, my library copy had three stickers on the spine – Science Fiction, Humor, and Social Issues.  Besides these categories, it is written in an interesting style with regular prose sections and then sections written as if part of a screenplay.  Moving on to the plot, it may appear […]

The Perfect Book for a Book Lover

Bibliophile by Jane Mount

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Bibliophile by Jane Mount is a book about books.  As a book lover I was thrilled to get this as a gift.  It is a perfect book to start a new Cannonball year with. Jane Mount has a cool job, she draws book covers for a living.  She takes a list of a person’s  favorite books and creates a visual representation of their list (designed like the stack of books on the cover of this book).  She has a very nice online shop called Ideal […]

A locked room mystery that is also a dark comedy and a reflection on mental health

Anxious poeple by Fredrik Backman

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Fredrik Backman is a Swedish novelist who broke out a few years ago with the novel A Man Called Ove.  He is also a genius, which is proved by his latest offering Anxious People.  I have read everything he has written which has been published in English.  His latest might be his best (or at least a close second behind Ove). The premise is pretty simple.  A bank robber, who makes the mistake of trying to rob a cashless bank, escapes by running into an […]



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