Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Three Mysteries for a Cozy Spooky Season

Still Life by Louise Penny

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

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October seems to be flying by – suddenly, the weather is cool enough for sweaters most days, the electricity bill is FINALLY declining, and we are seeing ghosts and pumpkins everywhere. The October Vibe is always welcome – I love the early part of the end of the year, which is both more macabre and somehow less melancholy than the upcoming holiday season. I often try to read something vaguely spooky for October – but rarely do I get it just right. Two years ago, […]

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

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I’m going to start this review like an online recipe: by providing a long back-story that is not relevant to why you are here. I have always been an avid reader and have dabbled a bit with writing. Several years ago, I attempted to participate in the Cannonball Read. I posted exactly one review. My problem was two-fold. One, the Pajiba crowd seems so well-read, articulate, witty, and generally smarter then me. This left me feeling intimidated, as though my reviews would be ‘I liked […]

“Friendship can be as deep as the ocean. It’s all a kind of love, and love isn’t any one kind of thing.”

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

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This book is rightly subtitled: An Adventure. I approve of that. It is an adventure! Reading this book is like bringing childhood and games back into adulthood (though one of the characters is a teenager). And it also has really good character work on top of that. Another way to describe this book is imagine if Ready Player One was set in the real world, and it was full of three-dimensional ladies and also ghosts: Boston multimillionaire dies, leaves game for the public, rewards the winners with […]

This mystery might make you cry, not in horror but because you will want the characters to have a happy ending

The Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

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I decided to read The Bellweather Rhapsody based on jomidi’s Cannonball Read review. I’m a sucker for a locked door mystery, especially when it involves a group of strangers trapped in a remote location with a murderer. Content warning: Suicide, both completed and attempted. The completed suicide is described in a fair amount of detail. Domestic abuse is mentioned.  In 1982, twelve year-old Minnie Graves decides to explore the Bellweather Hotel after her older sister’s wedding. She stumbles upon another new bride moments after she […]

Don’t check into room 712 at the Bellweather Hotel!

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

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Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia takes place in a run-down hotel in the Catskills.  It once had its heyday, but now its only big event is hosting a statewide music festival weekend for high school students.  Fifteen years ago, a bride shot her husband and hung herself on their wedding night in  room 712.  This event has haunted the hotel, the young girl who made the tragic discovery, and the concierge.  Fifteen years to the day later, statewide gets turned upside down when a musician […]

“Maybe this was how adult friendships happened: by accident, embroidered over time, visible only from the height of years.”

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

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Tuesday Mooney works as a researcher for a hospital fundraising department. She’s incredibly good at her job, and happy in her life, though she has few friends (apart from Dex, who seemingly needs her more than she needs him). One night at an auction event, Vincent Pryce (not that one), an eccentric billionaire, drops dead. He leaves behind clues to a possible fortune, and sends willing volunteers around the city on his treasure hunt. Tuesday and Dex are in immediately, but Tuesday is distracted by […]



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