Cannonball Read 17

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Lawyer by day, voracious reader by night. So many books, so little time!

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Drunk on mediocrity

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

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Ugh. The cover for this one was so pretty, and I kept seeing it on bookstore shelves, so when I finally was able to snap up a library copy I was really excited. The back cover promises a woman apothecary in the 1700s who helps other women kill all the Bad Men who were oppressing them? Yes please! Alas, this was a lot of promise without the delivery and I was mostly disappointed. FYI that there are some spoilers in my review below. Penner’s novel […]

Beautiful, thoughtful, heartbreaking

Atonement by Ian McEwan

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My white whale!  I have been trying and failing to read Atonement for about three years, so I am excited to say that not only have I finished it, but I really enjoyed it! The other times I have started reading, I have remained stuck in the book’s opening section, which covers the course of one summer day in the 1935 at the country house of the Tallis family. The Tallis’ youngest child, Briony, is a precocious creative sort who has written a play she […]

If Hercule Poirot is on your train you know someone is about to die

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

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The Mystery of the Blue Train is the 6th in Agatha Christie’s series featuring famous oddball Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. Published in 1928, this installment sees a murder almost fall into Poirot’s lap- a fellow passenger on the (famous at the time) Le Train Bleu, an express train from Calais to the French riveria. The murder victim is American heiress Ruth Kettering, who was on the way to meet her continental lover,. The immediate suspicion is a robbery gone wrong, as some very expensive rubies […]

Agatha Christie-esque seaside mystery

Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

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Its 1932 and Amory Ames is having marriage troubles. Her playboy husband, Milo, has recently returned to their English country home from a trip to Italy and the rumours of his illicit adventures there have preceded him. When Amory’s old flame, Gil Trent, unexpectedly asks her to accompany him on a trip to the seaside for a week, Amory has the perfect excuse to give Milo a taste of his own medicine. Gil’s kid sister, Emmeline, has taken up with a suspiciously charming young man, […]

Poetic Migrant Journey

A Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

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Joukhadar’s novel follows twin stories in alternate timelines, one set in recent Syria and North Africa during Islamic State and another set in the same are during the 1300s. Both stories feature girls who pose as boys, allowing them to do things that would otherwise be prohibited or unsafe for women. Nour is our present day heroine, and she has returned to Syria with her mother and two older sisters following her father’s death from cancer in New York City. Although Nour was born in […]

Redeemable trust fund kids

The Nest by Cynthia d'Aprix Sweeney

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I have had this mint green brick sitting on my shelf for years- passed on by a friend, I knew that it was a bestseller, likely to be turned into a movie or tv show, and for some reason it always felt like something I ‘should’ read rather than what I wanted to read. Reader, I was wrong! The Nest is a story about the four adult Plumb siblings who are months away from inheriting a reasonably-sized trust fund when a self-made disaster strikes: Leo, […]



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