Cannonball Read 18

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

My biggest complaint is what makes this book so important - Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings

“Her voice carried the voices of a hundred thousand souls in it; a whole history of resistance and rage moved with her.” - Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper #1) by Daniel José Older

You Mean All This Time, We Could’ve Been Friends? - The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Secrets and lies - Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

“There were human beings and there was Audrey Hepburn.” - Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson

Hello Old Friends - Home by Harlan Coben

Why oh Why - The Bloody Chamber and other stories by Angela Carter

So that’s what happens to… - My Happy Life by Lydia Millet

Proto 90s/Ur-text - How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez

GO AWAY! Go awaaay, you lousy beast! - Tatyana Tolstaya by Sleepwalker in a Fog

I swear I didn’t ctrl-z my Ian McEwan review - The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Life is a series of unlikely events…” - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

“Love is worth everything. Everything.” - Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

From an embattled son to a genocidal conqueror - Birth of an Empire and Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden

Memoirs! - Grace Notes: My Recollections + 5 more titles by Katey Sagal + 5 other people

“How waste everything looks when ye can’t fix a name to it” - O Beulah Land by Mary Lee Settle

Left Behind in a Shack to eat Chicken Soup with Kirk Cameron. Jesus. - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

“Motherhood is hard. And you young moms put more pressure on yourselves than we ever did with your crafts and activities. Do you know what we called crafts back in the day? Chores.” - Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

Not Firefly - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Midwestern Magical - Cowgirls in Space & What Makes a River by Deborah Coates

Am I the only species in creation that doesn’t thrive on conflict? - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Sherlock Holmes meets *insert your favorite fantasy story* here - Jackaby by William Ritter

Macho, Macho Man: Eric Braeden - I'll Be Damned by Eric Braeden

Dr. Bennet Omalu vs. NFL - Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nun assassins. I repeat, nun assassins. - Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

‘Sup, Jessica Fletcher? - Murder on the Orient Express: by Agatha Christie

Tomorrow all his youth, his Russia, was coming back to him again. - Mary by Vladimir Nabokov

Hello darkness, my old friend - White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

Pretty writing hides a lot… - Saturday by Ian McEwan

You’re going to be hearing more about this one - The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Early Stories - The Geranium and other stories by Flannery O'Connor

Sleeping Giants or I Wish This was The Iron Giant Instead by Sylvain Neuvel - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

Strays - Astray by Emma Donoghue

Ladies Who Paint - The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

… but don’t stop too long there, Ferris - Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

Grim, with a side of bleak - Broken Harbor by Tana French

Pleasant but forgettable - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

Mmmmmm. Butter chicken. - The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: A Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin Hall

I liked the bits with the horses - The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes

A Cannonball and a Book Club Review - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman

You could do worse than this fictionalized primer on the War of the Roses - The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Cold-blooded and hard-boiled - The Chill by Ross Macdonald

I May Have Reached The End of Personal Growth - Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN

The last Carrie Fisher. Sadly, it’s not the best Carrie Fisher. - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The book that ate up April. - The Cider House Rules by John Irving

A play about a hard topic to speak about. - Ruined by Lynn Nottage

An interesting, dense, if plot-heavy sci-fi techy novel - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

For a legendary assassin, she spends a whole lot of time NOT killing people - Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Fine Weekend Entertainment - There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone

Five novellas smooshed together. Still not sure about this author or this series. - Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass #0.1-0.5) by Sarah J. Maas

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