Catherine Ryan Howard – Cannonball Read 17

The Pandemic mystery that got me out of my thriller slump

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

May 16, 2022 by RaRaGabor 1 Comment

I have been deeply disappointed by the last handful of thrillers I’ve read. It seems like each one has some over the top plot twist or framing device designed to make the author look super clever and creative, but actually just gets my eyes rolling so far back I give myself a headache (see Survive the Night or All I Want). But, I needed something light after finishing How the Word Is Passed, 56 Days was available on Libby, and multiple coworkers raved about it. […]

A murder mystery that wasn’t what I expected…

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

April 29, 2022 by kniki Leave a Comment

… but then again I don’t read a lot of fiction so I didn’t really know what to expect. I picked this book up from the display near the library entrance. Not gonna lie, I can’t remember what drove me to pick it up, but it was a good distraction for a few days. It goes like this: girl meets guy in supermarket. Whirlwind romance moves more quickly than usual due to the beginning of Covid-19 lockdowns. They move in together after only a few […]

secrets, lies, and lockdown

56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

March 18, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

“Lies are spindly, unwieldy things. Delicate filaments, like bundles of nerves in the body. Easy to twist, hard to control, impossible to keep hold of.” It’s already apparent we’ve got a lot of pandemic media headed our way. All the long-running TV series, of course, tried to grapple with it immediately, mostly poorly, and we’ve had a few films jump at the chance as well. Emma Donoghue’s Pull of the Stars, despite being about the 1918 flu and being released in summer 2020, was not a pandemic […]

The Nothing Man: A worthy entry into the emerging meta-true crime genre

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

October 23, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

This was a really fun book!!! Earlier in the year, I read Every Last Fear which follows the story of a young man whose family was killed and whose story became a true crime phenomenon. The Nothing Man falls into the same category of meta-true crime fiction, and it highlights the importance of the victims who are often left out of the narrative. The story of The Nothing Man takes place in county Cork in Ireland, and is told from two perspectives. One is from […]

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