Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Unless you’re obsessed with Scientology (like I am), read ‘Troublemaker’ instead. - Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige, with Dan Koon

Man the French are not funny - The Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert

“The Internet is a place where ideas compete, and bad ideas in particular get shared.” - Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet by George Takei

Disappointing. - The Mothers by Brit Bennett

$5 of What-the-What - Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood

Historical Fantasy Takes a Weird Turn - Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle

Even Casper was a more exciting ghost story than this one - The Haunting of Josie by Kay Hooper

Trading Places for New Adults - Trade Me by Courtney Milan

In which I grew rapidly more disappointed by a book I was sure I was well on my way to loving - Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

I Feel I’ve Done This Before… - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

Simpering at a Lost Lord - Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney

Good Concept That Didn’t Pan Out - Afterparty by Daryl Gregory

Not as Good as P.S. I Like You - The Distance Between Us by Kasie West

I Wanted More Stuff to Blow Up in the Lab - The Secret of Raven Point by Jennifer Vanderbes

My Lord and What Now? - My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne

Nothing from my childhood seems to hold up except Stephen King - Miracle Cure by Michael Palmer

King Mark Does Not Equal King Arthur - The Nightingale Legacy by Catherine Coulter

Stockholm syndromed by a crappy book. - Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline

Stealing sperm is not ok! - Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No rogues here, just a boring tale - Sometimes a Rogue by Mary Jo Putney

The Duke of Problematic Heroes - The Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt

It’s OK to be Genre Fiction, I Promise - The Quick by Lauren Owen

Oh SNAP! - Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell

Everything comes entirely too Easy - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

Deaf Culture and Adoption - Finding Zoe by Brandi Rarus

The problem here is I don’t think I like short stories - the Tent by Margaret Atwood

Pretty Forgettable - The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Why Do I Keep Reading These? - A Cast-Off Coven & Hexes and Hemlines by Juliet Blackwell

Sleeping Beauty, Environmental Warrior - Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

I’m beginning to fear Maria Semple was a One Hit Wonder - Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

Basic Witch - Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell

Well, It’s Obviously Not a Vampire - Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Good, but not so good I’d intentionally read it. - Redeployment by Phil Klay

Lost in translation? - The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Great expectations: why did this have to be my first cannonball - Great expectations by Charles Dickens

Underwater - The Book of Speculation: A Novel by Erika Swyler

The Monumental Effort of Tidying Up - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

A telenovela by any other name smells like a telenovela - Contigo en la distancia by Carla Guelfenbein

Oh, why did I choose to read porn again? - The Boss's Daughter by Jasmine Haynes

Everything is terrible: Why I need to stop reading YA romance - The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Wake up, you’re not asleep. - The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

Is gaslighting less expensive than electric lighting? - Trust by Jana Aston

Nope - The Chocolate Kiss by Laura Florand

I should have known there wouldn’t be more dialogue in this one… - Everything I Never Told You by Celest Ng

A Love Story Behind a Politically Powerful Mughal Empress - The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

Then Comes *snore* - Then Comes Seduction by Mary Balogh

“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” - Feed by M.T. Anderson

A series to skip - Marked (Servants of Fate, book 1) by Sarah Fine

I want to say I excpect more from Gaiman, except when it comes to his short stories I don’t really. - Trigger Warnings: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

It’s about Christian aliens. Or long distance relationships. I’m not sure. - The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

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