Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I am an English teacher from the Low Countries. Like everyone else I aspire to one day write a Booker Prize Winner, but until then I contend my self with reading stuff and writing about it. I try to keep the bitchiness to a minimum, but sometimes I can't help myself. In my spare time I enjoy complaining about the weather and sleeping. I lack the attention span for good books and the tolerance for bad ones. I am stuck in literary purgatory. Hey, at least it's warm here.

Zirza's Reviews:

Harleigh and Calliope

False Witness by Karin Slaughter

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Attorney Leigh Collier is attending a recital at her daughter’s fancy private school when she’s called in by her boss. Andrew Tennant, a wealthy client’s son, stands accuse of aggravated sexual assault and has specifically requested Leigh defend him. It takes Leigh a while, but then she recognises Andrew as the little boy she used to babysit – the little boy whose father she and her sister murdered twenty years earlier. Andrew makes no qualms about letting Leigh know that he knows what she did, […]

I Am Ambivalent, Hear Me Roar

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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The hardest reviews are not the ones about good books, or about bad ones (in fact, writing reviews about bad books is easy and so much fun it’s almost worth reading a bad book for. Almost). The hardest ones to write are the ones about books that were just okay. The Woman in Cabin 10 is one of those books. It’s bubblegum. It’s popcorn. It’s cheese, but not the good kind, no, the average kind from the supermarket that’s good as sandwich filling but not […]

A Tale as old as Time

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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At the turn of the century, a cleft-lipped, clubfooted boarding house owner in rural Korea marries fifteen year old Yangjin, the third daughter of an impoverished farmer. She is no beauty, but neither is Hoonie, her husband. They’re a good match. Together, they run a boarding house in a small, seaside town on an idyllic but poor part of the Korean coast. They try to have children, and after their first three babies die their fourth, a daughter named Sunja, is born. Hoonie dotes upon […]

I’d rather not

Look for me by Lisa Gardner

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On a pleasant spring day, Detective D.D. Warren is called in from a day out with her husband and son to investigate a quadruple homicide. A family of four has been shot and killed in their home. A fifth member, eldest daughter Roxy, is still missing along with the family’s two dogs. As she’s seen fleeing the crime scene, the question immediately rises whether Roxy escaped in a panic, or whether she’s involved with the murder.  Let me start with the essential part here: the […]

All in the Family

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

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On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, the bodies of the Pine family are found in a rented villa in Tulum, Mexico: the parents, Liv and Evan, and their two youngest children, seventeen year old Maggie and six year old Tom. The only survivors are the couple’s older sons, Matt and Danny. Danny is in prison for murdering his high school girlfriend and so it’s left to Matt to pick up the pieces. At first, he assumes they died by carbon monoxide poisoning, but then the FBI […]

‘Cause I’m right here, right here, right here at home

The Searcher by Tana French

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Retired Chicago police detective Cal Hooper looks back on his life – divorced, stuck in a job that makes him increasingly uncomfortable – and decides to buy a fixer-upper in the small town of Artnakelty, Ireland. As he’s working on his house he’s approached by Trey, a twelve year old from a family widely regarded as no good by the villagers. Trey asks Cal to look into the disappearance of his older brother and Cal, reluctantly, starts to to investigate. But he’s an outsider in […]



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