Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Was Looking for the “Better” Promised in the Title but it Kept Getting Worse

For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

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TW: SA of a child  ( I did not know that going into this book, there are no details concerning it). The premise of this novel sounds very promising.  When Nat and Will date in law school they jokingly discuss getting away with the perfect murder and back as a 3L Nat thinks she could do it. They seem to have it all, good jobs, a beautiful home, a son they both love and dote on, family trips to the beach on Sundays and yet? […]

Grab Bag

Mine by Robert M McCammon

Boathouse by Jon Fosse

Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? by Robert Coover

The Miranda Obsession by Jen Silverman

Tell Her Story by Margot Hunt

Zaddy by Sarah Ramos

Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington

Dear Seraphina by Avery Bishop

Benarnda's Daughters by Diane Exavier

The Wrong One by Dervla McTiernan

Tisoy by Berneice McFadden

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Mine – 3/5 Stars Ahhhh, 1990. It’s weird to think about how little cultural cache SDS, Weather Underground, and other Leftist groups from the 1960s and 1970s have any more when talked about in media products. This book is not exactly about a Leftist group, but more of a kind of amalgamation of these types of groups, separatists groups like the Symbionese Liberation Army, and even the Manson Family. In Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi describes the Mansons as “Right-wing hippies” and I think, in the […]

A delightfully quick and fun mystery

The House on the Water by Margot Hunt

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Caroline and Esme are best friends: they survived being freshman roommates and have been close ever since. One year early on in their friendship, they make a commitment to each other to take a vacation every year together no matter what. Now, 30 some-odd years later they have stuck with that commitment, but the trip this year couldn’t come at a worse time: Caroline’s son is battling drug addiction and Esme is just coming out of a particularly nasty divorce, but they made a commitment. […]

December Audible Roundup

Buried Deep by Margot Hunt

Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze by Mona Mansour

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Buried Deep An Audible original by the author of a couple other thrillers that I haven’t read but probably will. We begin with the news that a body has been uncovered in Key Largo and it’s the body of the presumed missing (and drowned) model from years past who has gone camping with friends, presumably went swimming in the ocean while drunk and disappeared in the water. The finding of her body, having been buried, clearly indicates that she was either murdered or buried to […]

SPOILERS!!!!! Over halfway and then DNF.

For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt

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The plot idea behind this book is good. It’s really interesting, but as it is used in this book, it doesn’t quite work. Possible spoilers, though I will try to keep it non-spoilerish. The book opens with a couple on a first date, talking about how, since they are smart, they could get away with killing someone. Then we jump to years later where said couple -Will and Nat (short for Natalie) are married with a young son and the marriage might not be doing […]



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