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:

Busy Bog Bodies

Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5) by Val McDermid

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In 1944, as World War II is drawing to a close, two men are ordered to destroy army surplus. This includes two motorcycles, shiny and brand-new. The men can’t bring themselves to destroy them, so instead they bury the bikes deep in peat-ground of the Scottish highlands. Years later, the granddaughter of one of the men figures out the location of the bikes and, with the help of a local, they decide to dig them up. They find more than they bargained for; a corpse […]

A Gay Romp

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Alex is the son of the US president. He’s well-liked by his friends, intelligent and witty. His mother sends him and his sister on a diplomatic mission: attend the Royal Wedding of the crown prince of England. Unfortunately for Alex, he is forced to interact there with the prince’s younger brother Henry. Alex thinks Henry is a stuck-up sod and goes to confront him. Hijinks ensue, and the two end up faceplanting into a seventy five thousand pound or dollar (the novel is unclear about […]

Gratuitous Jason Isaacs

Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

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Big Sky Private investigator Jackson Brodie is on an assignment to spy on a cheating couple. He has taken his thirteen year old son along with him. The son is bored and, quietly, so is Jackson. One night, he meets a desperate-looking man, standing at the edge of a crumbling cliff. Though Jackson manages to get the man off the cliff, the chance encounter leads him to something far more sinister.  I love Kate Atkinson and I’ve read the entire Brodie series up to this […]

Oh Baby

Prom Mom by Laura Lippman

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Amber is a teenager. She is smart, does well at school, and when her boyfriend takes her to prom she couldn’t be happier. But then her boyfriend leaves to pursue the girl he really wants. Amber doesn’t feel well, goes to their hotel room alone, and gives birth to a premature baby she didn’t know she was carrying. The baby dies, and Amber is sent to juvie for an indeterminate length of time. When she gets out, she restarts her life elsewhere. Years later, in […]

G is for Garbled

Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Milhone #25) by Sue Grafton

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In 1979, four boys from an elite private school in the fictional town of Santa Teresa film their sexual assault on a classmate. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the person reported to have stolen it turns up dead. Some of the boys are sentenced to prison time. Ten years later, in 1989, one of the boys, Fritz McCabe, is released from prison. He receives letters threatening to release the tape and send him back to prison, unless he and his parents pay […]

Yeet the Rich.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

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It’s a quiet, early morning in a summer camp in the Adirondack mountains, 1975, when teenager Barbara van Laar is discovered missing from her bunk. The alarm is raised quickly, but there is no sign of Barbara. As the search progresses, skeletons come out of the closet and worlds collide. Barbara is the daughter of the wealthy Van Laar family, owners of the camp and the surrounding land. The Van Laars are remarkably eager to steer the investigation and they don’t seem particularly interested in […]



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