Cannonball Read 18

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

Evil Cupcakes meet Samuel Beckett - Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

Napoleon’s Last Gambit - League of Dragons by Naomi Novik

Pretty fucked up - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Sci-Fi Short Stories hit and miss - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Apparently Anarchists Can’t Fight Without Their Leader? - Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Hated it the first time…kinda liked it the second… - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Everything Beth Ellen Said is Accurate, But I Still Enjoyed It - From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata

A solid freshman effort - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

The more I think about it, the worse this gets - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Wicked nuns and maybe-murders in a scenic setting - Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart

No matter how good a man is, there’s always some horse can pitch him. - The Red Pony; Cannery Row; The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

These are books you finish - In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Her real mom was probably a hippie - Half Past by Victoria Helen Stone

Some Guidance On Where to Go in My New Country - 52 Great British Weekends by Annabelle Thrope

Satirical Dark Humor - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

If you like sociopaths and unreliable narrators, then have I got a book for you! - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

Am I missing something? - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Outdated, but easy to see why it’s popular. - Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Not Bad as a Background Soundtrack to Age of Empires II - Daughter of Empire by Lady Pamela Hicks

Becoming a Bright Young Thing - The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig

Stay Out of the Woods! - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

“A lot of people want their first kiss to be special. I just wanted mine to be during this lifetime…” - We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Josh Sundquist

I Wanted an Out of Body Experience while Reading This Book - Behind Hey Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

Riches and Wonders - The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I am the walrus - The Dude and The Zen Master by Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman

A Little Lost in Translation - The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Angels Anglada

“A man becomes the creature of his uniform.” - Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress by Russell Smith

This book reads like a waltz. - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

He opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.” - Anything Is Possible (Amgash 2) by Elizabeth Strout

Easy and Breezy - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

And the worms ate into his brain - Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

It cleared a low bar - Euphoria by Lily King

Good, but not as good as the author thinks it is - The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

No more nipples, but we DO get a purple tornado and lightning… - Wildfire by Ilona Andrews

Has he ever met a person? - The Circle by Dave Eggers

“If you mean Miss Austen, I don’t find her particularly romantic,” Tasmin declared. “Can’t say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes.” - The Berrybender Narratives parts 1 and 2: Sin Killer, Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry

Not as exciting as I expected - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Engaging Series, but a Little Too Plodding Here for my Tastes - Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson

Charley Davidson, Private Eye and Grim Reaper at your service - First Grave on the Right: Charley Davidson, Book 1 by Darynda Jones

A somewhat problematic murder mystery - The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham

The Wrong Girl? - The Right Girl by Ellie O'Neill

Becoming more human - Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Just a few long-leggedy beasties - Beats of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

Turns out I’m not boring! I just play boringly. - Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul by Stuart Brown

The best mechanical octopus tv cat person professor ever - The Wrong Dead Guy by Richard Kadrey

Further adventures in terrible book covers - White Hot by Ilona Andrews

Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol - Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #01 The Haunted House Next Door by Andres Miedoso

My first self help book was…okay - What To Say When You Talk To Your Self by Shad Helmstetter Ph.D

Actress, knitter, author. Is there anything she can’t do? - Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

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