Cannonball Read 18

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

“The problem is that Scientology is a system that makes it nearly impossible for you to think for yourself. “ - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer

“It’s so much easier to accept your feminine role in this world if you don’t struggle.” - Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

Kitfeather Book Club Part 1 - Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney

A small book on authors and friendship - Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard

When God Gets Lost in Translation - The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner

The Least Thriller, Thriller - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

A Whole Bunch of Truman Capote - The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Cozy Cotswolds - Agatha Raisin Mysteries, Books 1-5 by MC Beaton

Clones in Space - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Fangirl Down, Eleanor & Park to Go (Eventually) - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Eh. - The Dresden Files: Wild Card, The Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin by Jim Butcher, Carlos Gomez, Mark Powers, Joe Cooper

Who Guards the Guardians (they do, of course) - Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka

A well written disappointment - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Little House on the Prairie meets the Oregon trail - Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

The blurbs over-blurbed it. - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

An interesting book about books that move us. - The Things That Matter by Edward Mendelsohn

A Classic Game, if not a Classic Mystery - A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

I Swoop in Like an Ethically Diverse Knight - Spider-Man and Deadpool Vol 1: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly, Ed McGuiness

The movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is better - Mr and Mr Smith by HelenKay Dimon

Lies, amnesia, missing persons and the revolutionary war - The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

It’s true that they don’t make good romantic comedies anymore - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

Activism 101 - Becoming a Citizen Activist by Nick Licata

Comes in threes - Marrow Island by Alexis M Smith

Concluding an odd space trilogy with some home-cooked sexism - That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

A more repetitive entry in the series. - The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

More C.S. Lewis in space! - Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis’s weird space allegory, unpacked - Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

Grammar(s) of God - The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner

Less fun than I remembered as a kid. - Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery

A surprising and interesting story - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Waffles and Ice Cream for Breakfast - Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

I read this book in one sitting - My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

Along Comes a Spider - Black Widow Vols 1 & 2, Finely Woven Thread and Tightly Tangled Web by Nathan Edmondson, Phil Noto

Slices of Life - The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino

Still couldn’t stop the words from pouring out. - The Great Passage by Shion Miura

Introducing Joker(TM) Hot Topic - Batman: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion

The Game Within the Game After the Game - Game 7, 1986 by Ron Darling

The World Moves Differently in the Middle of the Night - After Dark by Haruki Murakami

A Knight Like No Other - The Last Knight by Candice Proctor

Feed me, Seymour; feed me. - Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together - The Angry Therapist: A No BS Guide to Finding and Living Your Own Truth by John Kim

Heinlein’s Starship Troopers Meets Kafka’s The Trial Meets Heller’s Catch-22 - Bill, the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison

Guys and Dolls - The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis

Much Ado About Harry - A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles

Margaret Atwood and a little Annie Proulx - After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh

Another short novel by Connie Willis - Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis

A fantasy romance with a librarian heroine - The Pages of the Mind by Jeffe Kennedy

Two Quick Kids Books - How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

Odd collection of stories from a writer I can’t quite figure out. - What I Didn't See: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler

The girl in the bubble and the boy in black - Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

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