Cannonball Read 18

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

Grasping at Straws - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Oh, If I Had a Hammer - The Unworthy Thor by Jason Aaron, Olivier Coipel

A boy and his parrot. - The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

Wait, why did I think this was a trilogy? - Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch

Magic Bites, but this doesn’t - Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

Not as enraptured the second time around - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

Who run the world? - Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith

A new series to love while Tana French is writing her next book - Force of Nature by Jane Harper

I am Pagliacci - Watchmen by Alan Moore; Dave Gibbons

And yet, not penetrating - Full frontal feminism by Jessica Valenti

Cuz you’re really gonna be surprised! When it happens! - Truly madly guilty by Liane moriarty

The Court of Owls? Who Gives a Hoot? Not Batman! - Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo

Devil in Details and Missed Chances - Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

A Song, Its Creator, the Artists Who Interpret It, and More Than 30 Years of Impact - The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light

Judy – love ya. Love this one? Not so much. - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

There Was a Horse in the Bathroom - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

The PR exec and the dairy farmer (who looks like Jason Momoa) - Cream of the Crop by Alice Clayton

She remembers when the word “friend” could draw blood - My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #6 - Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization by Parag Khanna

Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy - Poppy, Buttercup, Bluebell, and Dandy by Fiona Woodcock

Unlock Your Inner Wonder Woman in this Encyclopedia of Podcast Topics - Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy

A Quick Hit of Science - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Go for it, if you liked the first one - Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch

A new A plot, and some big progress in the B plot - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

A Suspenseful Thrilling Mystery… NOT! - I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll

I want more Jessica Jones in my life… - Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

You should employ your little grey cells - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Stay out of the forest… - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Transport Trivia - The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long

Trying for more yes - Year of Yes by Shonda Rimes

“Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.” - Velocity by Dean Koontz

A personal memoir from former congressman and mayor of Compton - FROM COMPTON TO CONGRESS: His Grace For My Race (Volume Book 1) by Walter R. Tucker III and Martha Tucker

Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy. - Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

I made what can only have been a few rather idiotic observations about the bricks. - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Watered Down Pratchett Doing Columbo - Fifth Ward: First Watch by Dale Lucas

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. - Ragnarok by AS Byatt

I’m sick of my own romanticism! - Henry and June by Anais Nin

Escaping is only half the battle - I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios

Barbecue intrigue - Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty

Not the Thrill I Was Hoping For - The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

I get why it made a lot of lists - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Not today Satan! - In Good Faith (Joe Dillard Series Book 2) by Scott Pratt

Only the good die young. Evil seems to live forever. - The Family: the shocking true story of a notorious cult by Chris Johnston,‎ Rosie Jones

Is She Just Going to Get a New Potential Love Interest Each Book? - Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

When the Title of the Book Doesn’t Relate to the Book Itself But to What the Reader Feels While Reading It - Punishment by Scott J. Holliday

There was something repulsive (and revealing) about talking on a cell phone while handling garbage. Why did anyone pretend human relationships had value? - Tampa by Alissa Nutting

Wrinkle in Time Time - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

A magical unresolution to refugee realities - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

I wasn’t sure I wanted to review this one - The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

Adventures in magic - The Iron Trial; The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

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