Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Love of Reading Gone Wrong

Finders Keepers by Stephen King

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Bingo Square: Birthday (Stephen King’s birthday is 21 September) Even though I quite liked Mr. Mercedes, I can’t say I was that interested in more novels with the characters.  Based on who had and hadn’t survived in Mr. Mercedes, I felt like it ended well as it was, and I didn’t necessarily want to continue reading more about some of the characters without others also being around. However, I still ended up downloading the two other novels in the trilogy when I was granted a […]

“When the mind’s filter disappeared, the big picture disappeared with it. There was no forest, only trees. At its worst, there were no trees, either. Just bark.”

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The reviews on Uncle Stevie’s latest tome have been mostly similar: a great, suspenseful first half, telling a story about a police investigation into the brutal murder of a child by a seemingly innocent man…and a less successful second half, filled with supernatural elements and a character from earlier novels. Most reviews have pointed out that the story presented in the first half were quite enough for a full novel: local good citizen arrested for horrific crime, town turns against him and his family, regardless […]

End of Watch

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End of Watch.  Once again, I’m sorry to say that there’s not much good to be said about this one.  It’s a real downer, and I waited several weeks after I read it to write this review, because I didn’t want to ruin it for anyone.  Problem is, I also don’t want to have to reread it, and unlike some other books, my head doesn’t want to hold on to it.  My major issues were how irritating it was that King returned to drugging people […]

Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers

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In which Siege returns to CBR, in hopes of not embarrassing herself by signing up and then doing zero reviews again this year. Her first review is Finders Keepers, the second book in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy.

Damn you, Uncle Stevie. I’m not ready for these books to end.

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The adventures of Retired Detective Bill Hodges and his friends have come to an end, and I’m sad. I didn’t expect a whole lot when Uncle Stevie announced that he was working on a trilogy of mystery novels a few years ago. But I adored Mr. Mercedes, and couldn’t wait to find out what happened next. And I really liked 99% of Finders Keepers…it was only that 1% about stupid Brady Hartsfield moving things around with his mind that bugged me. So, I was kind of irked when […]

The second Bill Hodges book is a spiritual successor to Misery.

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Finders Keepers had me from page one. It barely even had to flutter its skirts at me before I was hopelessly enamored of it. This probably says more about me than it does the book, but I think it also speaks well of the book. When King is on, he’s on, and with this one he delivers an engaging, tense, and yet emotionally affecting story. For me, it was a nearly perfect reading experience. I really liked Mr. Mercedes when I read it last year. I liked Retired […]



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