Cannonball Read 18

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

Disturbing parallels to modern-day society - The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

Maybe just nudge the puppy with your foot a little? - Wherever You Go, There They Are by Annabelle Gurwitch

A Spy in the Life - The Last Supper by Charles McCarry

My little friend was a strange mix of Flemish thrift and artistic fervour. - Double Sin by Agatha Christie

It was a silly show, all capering women and monkey-faced men. - The 39 Steps by John Buchan

My first review of the year! - Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen

Professional Reading #1 - It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell & Tony Koltz

Where have I seen this plot before?!?! - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

“It’s concerning you both; for doesn’t it seem odd that Gowing’s always coming and Cummings’ always going?” - Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning - The Time Machine by HG Wells

And, almost as one, they murmured: “Yes.” - The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

To make matters worse, the women also dominated all the activity on the upper deck. - Voyage along the Horizon by Javier Marias

To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year - Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

Who Published This Book Half-Finished? - Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children) by Seanan McGuire

But the Wind Goes Right Through You, It’s No Place for the Old - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Arrr, There be Pirates and Voodoo Here - On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

For my first read of 2019, I decide to learn EVERYTHING - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

“The first rule is don’t fall in love”…. guess what happens?? - How To Stop Time by Matt Haig

Coffee Reading Lite - The Monk of Mokha by David Eggers

It’s a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass. - Someone Could Get Hurt by Drew Magary

That’s how confident they are. No one would dare stand in front of our house and watch us, they think. - Looker by Laura Sims

“A soft heart only makes it easier for a knife to slip in.” - The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken

A Long and Complicated Read - A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Middle book syndrome? Or just me? - The Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, #2) by Jonathan Stroud

Sex and Travel (Emphasis on the Sex) - Wanderlust by Elizabeth Eaves

It is not because we are rats that we tend to abandon people who are down, it is because we are embarrassed. - A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

White Feminism: A Novel - The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

CBR11 #1 – Salt by Nayyirah Waheed - Salt by Nayyirah Waheed

Fairy tale update with a Latinx spin - Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore

Marry Groundhog Day With Clue and Quantum Leap…and then do weird stuff - The 7 and 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

THIS REVIEW: might not be a popular opinion. But it is mine after this reading of it. - When Sadness Is at Your Door by Eva Eland

Proudly Perfectly Peculiar - The Peculiar Possum by Tracey Hecht

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. - The Benson Murder Case by SS Van Dine

Oftentimes these ministers of darkness tell us truths in little things, to betray us into deeds of greatest consequence - Tales from Shakespeare by Mary and Charles Lamb

What might happen if a fan got to live inside her favorite story. - The Fandom by Anna Day

Daughters of the Lake - Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

Good, but wants more meat… - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Outlander meets Criminal Minds - A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

High School Drama + Magic + Alabama + Hipsters - Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins

Home Improvement - Sideswipe by Charles Willeford

Maybe Don’t Bind Your Fate to First Hottie You Meet - Smoke & Summons (The Numina Series, Book 1) by Charlie N. Holmberg

Slow but steady wins the race… but not always? - The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny

A Severance Package at the End of the World - Severance by Ling Ma

Ending with a Zombie Killing Porn Star and a Priest in a Bar - Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges - Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

So Jacob galloped over the fields of Essex, flopped in the mud, lost the hunt, and rode by himself eating sandwiches… - Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

A little too familiar - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

A short little homage to Richard Matheson - Elevation by Stephen King

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I am a sucker for a decent Austen retelling. - Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge

This is my year of not apologising for reading romance - Highlander by Julia Sykes

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