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:

Teenage Kinks

The Secret Place by Tana French

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Teenagers are weird. I like them. I teach high school; it’s not a job where you’ll last long if you don’t like the target demographic. But they are weird. Half their brains are all grown up and the other half is stuck in childhood. Not always the right parts. They are fiercely loyal, especially to their friends, and they’re at the point where they are developing their own world. Parents not allowed. Except when they get stuck, of course. If you’re lucky. Detective Stephen Moran […]

Deuce Ex Machina

Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2) by Lee Child

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I majored in English. Read some of the finest books known to man. I also like good food. Sometimes, though, I want McDonalds and Jack Reacher. You know it’s not High Art, but it doesn’t have to be. You don’t want it to be. You want it to be a McChicken and a milkshake and Jack Reacher beating the shit out of a white supremacist: it’s just really easy to wolf down.  Child doesn’t waste much time dropping us in the middle of some nefarious […]

Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter

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On a sweltering summer afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is called in to examine a suspected suicide at the nearby college. With her very pregnant sister in tow, she sets out to examine the body. But then the sister is stabbed and suicide becomes increasingly less likely. Chief of Police Jeffrey Tolliver – Sara’s on again, off again significant other – struggles to make headway into the case. First and foremost in his crosshairs is his former subordinate, Lena Adams. Now working as campus security, […]

Tom Cruise, though? REALLY?

The Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) by Lee Child

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I hate people who are good at everything.  I mean, doesn’t everyone? They are insufferable, whether or not they’re showing off their skills. And in the case of Jack Reacher, he’s doubly insufferable, because he still manages to be a fuck-up.  In this installment – the first one in a very, very long series – Jack Reacher is arrested on suspicion of murder. Having led a vagabond lifestyle after leaving the army, Reacher, on a whim, decides to get off the bus in the small, […]

Are we the baddies?

The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson

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In 1981, the body of young mother Kate Rokesmith is found on the banks of the river Thames. The only known witness is her four year old son, Jonathan, who is found huddled underneath a nearby statue. He refuses to speak. The mystery remains unsolved. Years later, the lead detective on the case, now retired, passes away of a heart attack. His daughter Stella, who runs a cleaning company, sets out to clear her father’s house. She comes across the Rokesmith case files and in […]

“Get it, Fred? I’m holey!”

Black December by Scott Hunter

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DCI Brendan Moran, still recovering from a severe car accident the year before, is called out to a Catholic boarding school named Charnford Abbey, where one of the monks has been murdered (I accidentally typed ‘monkeys’ instead of ‘monks’ here, which would have been better). The abbot and other monks seem strangely uncooperative. Soon, another body is found, unravelling the ancient secrets of the closed order and blah blah blah. The story also includes narcolepsy, a group of cunning Romanian squatters, a long-lost love lost […]



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