missing person – Cannonball Read 17

A Moody and Mysterious YA Graphic Novel That Also Somewhat Frustrated Me

Fly by Night by Tara O'Connor

February 5, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I picked this up somewhat randomly at Barnes & Noble, who have happily broken out their YA graphic novels into their own section at the store I go to, so I don’t have to dig through the whole YA section anymore. It makes me really happy to be living through this renaissance of graphic novels, and I’m excited to see it continue expanding. Fly by Night is a good example of the interesting work that’s being done now, and it was an enjoyable read. Dee’s […]

The Searcher by Tana French

The Searcher by Tana French

July 3, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 2 Comments

Reading Tana French makes me want to go to Ireland. Her Ireland feels like a much more complex and textured place than I’ve seen represented in more romantic representations. However, after reading The Searcher, it strikes me as not the wisest choice for an American to up and move to the Irish countryside. That’s precisely what Cal Hooper has done. Cal is a retired Chicago police detective, and he takes his nest egg to Ireland to buy a run-down old home in a small, quiet […]

The Masks We Wear

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

June 11, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

The Hampstead neighborhood has been besieged by an increasing number of sexual assaults happening even in broad daylight. One of the families that lives near the assaults is the Fours family. The father, Roan, is a child psychologist; the wife and mother, Cate, is a physiotherapist; and they have a daughter and a son. Their across-the-street neighbor, Owen, is a thirty-year-old virgin who lives with his aunt. After being accused of inappropriate behavior with is students, he finds his way to the INCEL community online. […]

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

Missing Person by Patrick Modiano

October 4, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I am starting to wonder if once you’ve read on Patrick Modiano novel, you’ve read them all. I’ve read three now, and two seem more or less identical in ways to each other, or more so like body and shadow to one another. This novel begins at the end of WWII and Guy Roland is trying to recoup his own identity, lost in the haziness, violence, and subterfuge of the French Resistance. He’s now working as a kind of metaphysical detective retracing the steps he’s able […]

I’m late to the train.

April 19, 2017 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

Another Cannonball favorite finally made its way up my TBR list, and I had mixed feelings. I honestly don’t know why any reviews anywhere ever would call this book fast-paced, because the pace was absolutely killing me for the first half. Nothing happened but cryptic allusions to secrets and Rachel’s alcoholism and depression. I hated it for a while. Every time I put it down I’d feel kind of sad and crappy about life for a few hours before I finally realized that Rachel’s miserable […]

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