Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I love to read. I'm usually reading at least 3 books at a time. They're not all good... some are really bad. I have trouble not finishing books though. Now CBR has doubled down on that trouble, because I want to get credit for reading the bad ones too!

kfishgirl's Reviews:

This is the most fun I’ve had reading a scary book, like ever!

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

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I selected this book to read because it sounded weird and scary and interesting.  I had no idea funny was on the menu too!  It did not disappoint. Kara kinda starts out as a sad sack that you root for.  She just got divorced, and rather than moving back in with her BANANAS and pain in the butt mother, she moves into her uncle’s spare room.  It’s a spare room in his museum of oddities – Uncle Earl’s Museum of Wonders.  The first (nearly) half of […]

Rousing roundup of Michael Connelly / Bosch Universe books

The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

Blue on Black by Michael Connelly

Dangerous Women by Michael Connelly and various other authors

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Last year (literally the beginning of January 2021) I started reading the Detective Harry Bosch books.  There are twenty something in total that are just Bosch books.  There are also some offshoots that are considered part of the Harry Bosch Universe.  They include: Mickey Haller – Bosch’s half brother, and the Lincoln Lawyer (obviously the book first, but the Matthew McConaughey movie character too), Jack McEvoy – a reporter that intersects with Harry a few times, Terry McCaleb – an FBI agent who works with […]

Book 4 of DI Amy Winter

Flesh and Blood by Caroline Mitchell

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This is the fourth book in the Detective Inspector (DI) Amy Winter series. I probably read the previous three books in the year and three quarters that I didn’t participate in CBR, so sorry for diving in at book four! Amy Winter’s parents were serial killers.  Her dad is dead I think, but her mom was recently released from prison.  One of her sisters is still in contact with their mom.  This is just background info.  Amy is a little guarded because of her scary […]

This is the second book I read this year, and it was nearly as painful as the first!

The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine

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So I finished this book back in January, but I just re-read a summary of the book to refresh my memory.  Ugh.  My brain is reminding me how much I disliked this book too!  The basic story is about a woman (Addison) who’s engaged to a great sounding man.  He’s a nice, smart, intelligent guy with a good job, a pretty good family, a nice house, and he’s financially comfortable.  Addison on the other hand has a menial job, she’s pretty nice, has almost zero […]

I started this book on a plane, and it got me through takeoff and landing. Those are the pros…

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

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So here is a blurb from the first review I saw for this book: “In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?” I was excited when I read the summary of the book.  It’s a super weird, but interesting idea.  Basically the whole world gets infected by a virus, but only the women are affected.  They go to sleep and end up in a cocoon, but […]

GETTING IT TOGETHER!!

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So I did a terrible job with my CBR reviews the past two years.  I did fine from 6 through 11, then I think I totally skipped 12, and did a few reviews in 13.  Year 12 was the start of the pandemic though (2020), so I’m cutting myself some slack!  It was also the first year of my job where I was basically doing 2 jobs at once.  One of those jobs was writing complex investigations, so the last thing I wanted to do […]



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