Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Battling with Geometry

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

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The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson has an interesting premise.  In the fantasy world Sanderson has created, United Isles, rithmatists use geometric shapes drawn with chalk to battle.  The story takes place at a Rithmatic Academy, where rithmatists and regular students both study.  Joel is the son of the chalk maker, who died a tragic death, but he is not a rithmatist.  However, he longs to be one. A mystery unfolds when a rithmatic student is kidnapped and attacked in an unusual manner.  Joel gets swept […]

It’s Two Mysteries In One

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

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Double your pleasure, double your fun, with two mysteries in one! Anthony Horowitz has done it again.  Following up his Magpie Murders, with the sequel Moonflower Murders.  Moonflower Murders, is once again a book within a book.  The “outer” book follows publisher Susan Ryeland as she is hired to solve a murder which occurred eight years ago at a hotel and my be tied to a hotel employee who has just gone missing.  The ‘inner” book, was written by Susan’s former writer, the late Alan […]

Murder Investigation as a Capstone Project

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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I always enjoy a good YA novel.  In recent years, I have read some really fun Young Adult mysteries.  A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson fits this genre.  I first saw this title advertised  in February as a Barnes and Noble YA book club selection.  I tried to get it from my library back then, but it only became available when my library recently reopened. Pipa decides to do her high school capstone project about the murder five years earlier of high […]

Not your typical Paris bookstore novel

Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan

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Real book lovers love to read books about bookstores.  Make it a bookstore in Paris and that is even better!  I have read several bookstore in Paris books.  They usually follow a similar plot – confused woman somehow ends up owning a bookstore in Paris and her life changes – typically because of a wild romance with a wonderful Frenchman.  Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan may be about a bookstore in Paris, but the plot is unique. Leah has lost her husband.  That […]

A Wonderful Classic Children’s Mystery

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a favorite of my grown up daughter.  She has probably read it a half dozen times over the past 15 or so years.  After she recently reread it, I decided to reread it also.  Well, the surprise was on me – I don’t think I had ever read it before. The book, published in 1978 and the Newbery winner that year, is a clever mystery that unfolds as the tenants of a building are invited to the reading […]

A Thoughtful Read

The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

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The best word I could find for The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall is thoughtful.  I know that is strange and I am certain I have never described a book as thoughtful before, but it fits so well. The Dearly Beloved is the story of Charles and Lily and James and Nan, two couples with minister husbands.  The book tells their complete stories from their meetings in college, their marriages, and their lives as co-ministers at a New York City church in the turbulent 60’s.  […]



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