Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“When you can eat, eat. When you can sleep, sleep. When you can fuck, fuck. But do not fuck with the pancreas.” - The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt McCarthy

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read.” (CBR11 Bingo) - The Bone People by Keri Hulme

I kind of don’t care that terrible people made problems for themselves (Pajiba) - Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Fun, witty mystery set in a grim era - The Scandal at Bletchley: A Hilary Manningham-Butler Mystery (#1) by Jack Treby

But the fire is so delightful - Some Snow Is… by Ellen Yeomans

When a Princess, a Knight and a Queen decide to fight a Dragon…. - Princess Scallywag and the Brave, Brave Knight by Mark Sperring

This wasn’t the conversation I was trying to have. - Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

In the beginning, Amanda did not have her own character. - Ripper by Isabel Allende

He had been reading for six hours, sometimes the same page over and over. - Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge

Maybe not his best, but not terrible either. Bingo #3 - Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in. - Severance by Ling Ma

And so it begins… again. (And so it begins) - The Gates by John Connolly

Well it ain’t Gone Girl but it’ll do - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks

Great Characters, Messy Plot - Reunited by the Badge by Deborah Fletcher Mello

Book Takes Too Long To Get to the Point - Recursion by Blake Crouch

Outer. Space! - Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

Without shelter, we stand in daylight. - Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead - Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus

Waiting For the TV Show… - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

There are better things to rebel against, Nate - Rebel by Bernard Cornwell

Bingo: Classics Whiplash, My Dear Watson - A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Murder and medical procedures most horrid - The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

A Man and His Thoughts - Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

Are we the baddies? - The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson

Who could have known that the man on his way to the prostitutes would become Cuilan’s lover? - Love in the New Millenium by Can Xue

Hideous hideous hideous hideous kink - Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

On this particular evening, however, I had suffered from one of those revulsions that all writers know. - The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

You recognized her? - The Underdog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Cute cooking manga that took a dark turn, comes to a sweet conclusion - Kitchen Princess Vol. 7 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by); Kitchen Princess Vol. 8 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by); Kitchen Princess Vol. 9 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by); Kitchen Princess Vol. 10 by Miyuki Kobayashi (story by), Natsumi Ando (manga by)

The Game’s Afoot (Bingo) - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the Darkness of the Grave - The Witch Elm by Tana French

Very Short Story That I Wish Had Been Longer - Playing House by Ruby Lang

Was I Supposed to Learn Something??? - The Nobodies by Liza Palmer

There were footsteps in the other room. - The Need by Helen Phillips

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Bogart made it better - The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

We rescue curls, You save coins. - Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers

I wasn’t ready to know the truth and I was equally unsure how to proceed. - The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

The radio played a waltz. - Snow in April by Rosamunde Pilcher

Humanizing Holmes - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Interesting premise, unsatisfying ending - Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta

Spoiler: None of Them are Named Balki or Larry - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock - The Ice Schooner by Michael Moorcock

Death and the Maiden - The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

All the colors in San Francisco’s history - Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya

“Can ambiguous social situations kindly go fuck themselves?” - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

I can’t say it improved with age - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

CBR11Bingo: Summer Read - An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

He is powered by PLAY! - Unstoppable Me by Susan Vere

With a Vroom! Vroom! everywhere - Vroom! by Barbara McClintock

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