Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Uncomfortable but worthwhile

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

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Three Women is the apt title for Taddeo’s literary non-fiction reporting on the sex lives of three women:  Maggie, a 17 year old in a relationship with her high school teacher; Lina, a suburban wife having a one-sided love affair with her high school boyfriend; and Sloane, a married restaurant owner who has sleeps with men her husband picks out for her. Taddeo writes extremely well- this is non-fiction that reads like fiction.  Her skill is not only how she strings together a sentence, but […]

I hated it

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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I am pegging this one down as my CBRbingo white whale for two reasons: 1) I have been starting and failing to read this book for years- a lot of people kept telling me how great it is, and how much they loved it, but up until recently, I just couldn’t get into it enough to get past the first 50 pages; and 2) it is so long- close to 600 pages- and so finishing it feels like a real accomplishment (especially because ‘white whale’ […]

I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

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It is the summer of 1950 and Flavia de Luce is an 11 year old budding chemist in the small, fictional English town of Bishop’s Lacey.  As she minding her own business (testing out chemistry experiments on her older sisters), mysterious things start to happen around her- first a dead bird with a postage stamp turns up on the family’s front doorstep, then she finds a man dying at 4am in the family’s cucumber patch! Her natural inclination to solve the mystery only increases when […]

Armchair travel

Istanbul by Bettany Hughes

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Since March, I have been lusting after travel.  I have been planning armchair trips to hike the stone steps of the Inca Trail, leaf peep the fall foliage in upstate New York, tap my shoes along the cobbled streets of Paris.  Turkey is right at the top of my wanderlist- I would start in Istanbul and work my south and west.  Since I can’t go in person, I decided I would do an armchair visit, starting with this biography of the city and following up […]

Close is no comfort

Close Range by Annie Proulx

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Annie Proulx can write.  I realize this should be apparent since she’s won a Pulitzer for writing, but this was the first work of hers that I read and I was blown away all the same.  Close Range is a short story collection set in Wyoming, with stories that vary in length (40 pages to 2 pages) but not in punch.  She sets her stories in the rural central and eastern part of the state, focusing on working class people- because its Wyoming this means […]

Meh. I read it for the bingo square.

Strip by Thomas Perry

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This was the first Thomas Perry novel I’ve read, and it moved up my TBR list specifically because I needed a yellow book for CBR bingo. I was expecting ‘detective novel’ but this is more of a ‘thriller’- the detective, Lieutenant Slosser, is a bit part character who takes a backseat to the dueling main characters, aging strip club owner Manco Kapak, the man Manco thinks robbed him, Joe Carver, and the man who actually robbed him, Jefferson Davis Falkins.  While Manco is busy sending […]



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