Cannonball Read 18

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3 Star Reviews

Utterly forgettable. Read Courtney Milan’s Unraveled instead - Managed by Kristen Callihan

D.H. Lawrence and Freud got together on this, I swear. - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

In which I write meandering reviews for forgettable books, in a desperate bid for the double cannonball - Rock Addiction, Rock Courtship (Rock Kiss #1, 1.5) by Nalini Singh

Spy thriller-romance from a Texan politician - A Perfect Match by Susan Combs

A Classic Christmas Tale - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

How to Account for A Life? - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

Will the Real Ron Swanson Please Stand Up? - Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman

A Wrinkle in Character Development - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

I Don’t Remember Much About It - The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

Atwood’s writing is the elegance of despair - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Low on the Lumberjane Scale - Lumberjanes Vol. 5: Band Together by Shannon Watters (Author), Noelle Stevenson (Author), Grace Ellis (Author), Brooke Allen (Illustrator)

Dr Who Meets The Rook with Game of Thrones-level Dysfunction - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

Christmas vacation=catch up on reviews. - Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung

You’ll Be Accepting My Apology For Sucking At Life and Not Posting - Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton

The Wrecked World of A Fairy Tale - Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

The one with the skunks. - The Secret (Animorphs, #9) by K.A. Applegate

“But the only way to get lucky is to be prepared for luck to find you.” - A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston

“She’s my little sister. Mine to torture and mine to protect.” - On the Way to the Wedding (Bridgertons #8) by Julia Quinn

Roaring 20’s urban fantasy - The Diviners, Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #1,2) by Libba Bray

Honestly, being a teen assassin sounds easier than my life. - Crown of Midnight and Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

An unbelievably fertile heroine and a lot of weddings - Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh

From Screen to Page - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

Oops I did it again - The Iscariot Sanction by Mark Latham

The effects of reading 4 before 1 - The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

Oh crap! You’re a condescending jerk. - Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki

More Like Notes from an Opinionated Woman… - Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

I want this rewritten as a regular novel! - Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

It was not the novella I was expecting - Lingus by Mariana Zapata

One Great Pre-Victorian Domestic - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Two new French romances - All for You, Chase Me by Laura Florand

No Hugging, No Learning - Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

I really wanted a better book for my first Cannonball - The Lover's Knot by Erin Satie

In every generation, there is a Chosen One… - The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason

I’m conflicted about this one, you guys. - Nutshell by Ian McEwan

A poem to black girlhood, in Roxane Gay’s Goodreads words. - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Everything is Improved with an English Accent - The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

McCarthy almost broke me with this one - Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Book 1 of the trilogy that I read book 3 of - Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar

When you didn’t hate the book, but can’t think of the title: a meh-ish review. - Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

“No matter how catastrophic the rumor, people will always adjust and find it dull in hindsight. Or they forget about it altogether…” - These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas

Not as good as the hockey books - Coming in From the Cold by Sarina Bowen

Falling in love in/with Istanbul - The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

Cold Case, Serial Style - The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

Fun, Quick, Cheap Indie Sci-Fi! With space robots! - The Wolf Itself (The Kestrel Chronicles Book 1) by Mikel Evans

Probably not the best review to read if you’re on the fence about these books…. - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Not entirely my cuppa tea, but YMMV, Roundup - Stealing Jason Wilde, Everywhere & Every Way, Wicked Intentions by Dee Ernst, Jennifer Probst, Elizabeth Hoyt

Dean Koontz, I just can’t quit you - What the Night Knows (What The Night Knows #1) by Dean Koontz

I mean, he *says* he’s not - I Am Not A Serial Killer (John Cleaver #1) by Dan Wells

So my favorite story was the one with the warlord… - One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak

Court is in Session - The Verdict by Nick Stone

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  • Jaye Davidson
    on Failure to Launch
    I loved the book
  • vega-table
    on Let me tell you about your case, little girl
    Appreciating the author's perspectives is a good way to think about this book. (And there really isn't anything to complain...
  • LittlePlat
    on Let me tell you about your case, little girl
    By the sounds of it, if this book ended up on my holds list, I wouldn't complain; sounds like the...
  • person
    on This book, like a toot, if forced is probably s**t
    its a very interesting book, and also helps you imagine what school is like being the new kid, having bullies,...
  • Jen K
    on Lectures, Research Papers and Romance
    As Jonah would put it, “Relatable Content.”
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