I’ve read 17 books this year according to my Goodreads tally and I’ve posted four reviews on this year’s CBR. One might suggest it’s because I had a baby this May, but let’s be real. I didn’t have a baby last year and I got just as behind on my reviews. So I will be more realistic and just point out that I probably won’t hit my goal of 26 reviews, even if I read 26 books. Such is life and I will do my […]
Masters of Sex, but funnier
My weakness as far as Cannonball goes is I read much faster or more often than I sit down to write up reviews of said reads. For my next review, of Mary Roach’s Bonk, I will have to think back to January to recall my sentiments. I should really review my books when I finish them, then I wouldn’t have this problem. Mary Roach is a delightful science writer whose books have covered topics from death to digestion and a lot in between. Bonk: The […]
Dublin Murder Squad #1
I’ve mentioned in previous CBR reviews that my sister-in-law is a discerning librarian and when she rates something highly on Goodreads, I automatically add it to my to-read list. That’s how I came across Tana French’s In the Woods, the first of her Dublin Murder Squad novels. Woods has two central mysteries that may or may not be related. Detective Adam ‘Rob’ Ryan was only 12 the afternoon he and his two best friends ran off into the woods on a hot summer day in […]
An American in Paris
My dear husband and I were thrilled to find out this summer that we’re expecting our first baby (a girl) in early May of this year. While I have quite a lot of experience with nieces and nephews (both technical and ethical) from being one of the last of my friends and family to have kids, we both still feel crazy underprepared for what’s coming. Delightfully underprepared? Is that a thing? In any case as soon as I saw the two blue lines I started […]
New Year, New Kleypas
I was super excited to read Lisa Kleypas’ new book (and opener of a new series of historical romances) Cold-Hearted Rake. After my last book, I needed something light, refreshing and easy like a romance. Though this wasn’t quite as awesome as some of Kleypas’ past hits, it definitely fit the bill. And it felt appropriate to kick off CBR8 with a romance, as I owe CBR for getting me into them. Cold-Hearted Rake is the story of Devon Ravenel (the aforementioned ‘rake’), who has […]
Suicidal Tendencies
Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being is two stories in one, or rather one story within another. Nao Yasutani, a sixteen-year-old girl living in Japan in the early 2000s, is writing a diary where she intends to tell the story of her 104-yr-old great grandmother Jiko and her life as a Buddhist nun. What she ends up writing about, however, is her terrible life as a recent transplant to Japan, where she endures bullying that would make and after-school special cry. She plans […]
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