Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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3 Star Reviews

Interesting. But. Choppy. And. Depressing. - Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey

Secondhand happiness - The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy

If you’re presuming a Regency Romance, you presumed correctly - Mr. Cavendish I Presume by Julia Quinn

This series is good, feminist fun, but this book was a little overstuffed. - Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2) by Lyssa Kay Adams

A realistic look back at surviving the zombie apocalypse - World War Z by Max Brooks

And the winner is…….. PEANUT - Peanut Goes for the Gold by Jonathan Van Ness

An adventure in name, but almost not in reality - The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship by Philip Pullman

I wish I may I wish I might you have this wish tonight - The Perfectly Perfect Wish by Lisa Mantchev

A little Blarney - Three Ways to Trap a Leprechaun by  Tara Lazar

It was fine! - You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe

A gender swapped romance retelling of a classic rom com - Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher

Marisol got into an intense relationship with the people on The Facts of Life… - As Good as New by Charlie Jane Anders; The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders; Six Months Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders

The bloom has come off the Rose - You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

How He Wins - Texas By The Tail by Jim Thompson

A bit of a Carry On… - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Another Cinderella Story - Sootypaws: A Cinderella Story by Maggie Rudy

A good walk spoiled - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

What you do see that helps what you do - In a Garden by Tim McCanna

What does that command mean? - I Love You, Fred! by Mick Inkpen

Be You - The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder; Glad, Glad Bear! by Kimberly Gee

Normal Fallacy - Normal People by Sally Rooney

A middling Daisy Dalrymple story, but the characters make it worth reading - The Corpse at the Crystal Palace by Carola Dunn

Long But Good - The Break by Marian Keyes

Now and Again - Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield

I did not know this was about space viruses when I started it - Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress

One book’s worth of story stretched into a trilogy of books - The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton; The Redhead Revealed by Alice Clayton; The Redhead Plays Her Hand by Alice Clayton

Buzz buzz and swarm away - Beehive by Jorey Hurley

“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.” - In Order to Live: a North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers

Florida Gothic - This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden

Mental archaeology - Unthinkable by Meghan Daum

Under My Bed, In Your Head - The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley

It was near the middle of the night. - Who? by Algis Budrys

The journey of one boy becoming himself - And I’m Not a Girl: A Transgender Story by Maddox Lyons

Superheroes 101 - We Are the Justice League! (DC Justice League) by DC Comics

If people were already there, how did we discover it? - New World by David Jesus Vignolli

“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?” - The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

Uneven end to the story of the Witcher - The Lady of the Lake: A Novel of The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

Christina Goering’s father was an American industrialist of German parentage and her mother was a New York lady of a very distinguished family. - Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles; In the Summer House by Jane Bowles

I am obliged to begin this story with a brief account of the Hampton family, because it is necessary to emphasise the fact once and for all that the Hamptons were very grand as well as very rich. - Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

This One Missed the Mark for Me - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

It’s Up To You, New York… - Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton

Revisiting a Book I Thought was Fine the First Time. Still Fine. - Angels Fall by Nora Roberts

So 2/3rds of this person is interesting, or what even is an editor? - The Flame Throwers by Rachel Kushner

Hero School Shenanigans - My Hero Academia: School Briefs (v4) by Kohei Horikoshi, Anri Yoshi

Dragons and Swamp Folk Underwhelm in the Bayou - Highfire by Eoin Colfer

When Theatre Kids Get Involved In Their Own Shakespearean Tragedy - If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

“Who will you burn?” – “Hag. Witch.” - Corrag by Susan Fletcher

I expected too much from this one. - Alphabet Squadron (Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron, #1) by Alexander Freed

“It’s easy to repeat; it’s hard to speak.” - Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

I Might have Enjoyed This More at Another Time - Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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