Cannonball Read 17

The five-member Cassidy-Shaw family is on their way to eldest son Charlie’s last high school lacrosse tournament when their AI-assisted minivan becomes involved in a fatal car accident with another vehicle. Both fatalities are in the other vehicle, but the Cassidy-Shaws are far from unscathed. The accident prompts one big question: who is responsible? Charlie was technical...

Fair warning here – about half the dialogue is in Spanish.  But with just my many decades old Spanish classes from the dim past, it really wasn’t that hard to follow.  It’s pretty simple, and most of it you can get from context. But. So you know. This is the second book from McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, after All the Pretty Horses. There is no connection between any of t...

Last month I went away for a long weekend and stopped in a lovely little independent book store with a great backstory. Predictably, being away on holiday coupled with an adorable shop put me in book-buying mode, so when I spotted The Correspondent, its enticing cover and knowing it received so many excellent reviews compelled me to buy it. I love independently owned book shops,...

Lotte’s husband is a cancer survivor. Like many cancer survivors, the experience has altered him and to celebrate his survival, he decides to walk a pilgrimage: the Camino de Santiago, which runs from Le-Puy-en-Velay in central France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. He sets off in good spirits, but then out of the blue Lotte receives word that her husband has taken his own l...

It’s 1983, and Malibu is getting ready for the party of the year that pro-surfer and model Nina Riva – estranged daughter of legendary rocker Mick Riva – throws every year. Nina’s siblings gather too: not-really twins Jay and Hudson, normally joined at the hip, now have a terrible secret that threatens to pull them apart; and baby sister Kit, headstrong and on a ques...