Cannonball Read 18

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

Fine for a Hudson News Buy - The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan

One of my favorite subjects - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

The Money Class - The Money Class by Suze Orman

Along Came Another Patterson Book … - The Beach House, Along Came A Spider by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge

Speak the Truth, Keep no Secrets - The Truth-Teller's Tale by Sharon Shinn

Cast off the Shackles of Yesterday - The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

Take a Trip with Mary Roach - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

“These are the kinds of thoughts that made it necessary to separate me from the other kids at school.” - Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin

A little magic, a little nostalgia - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, & Jack Thorne

The Road Goes Ever On and On - The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

To Wish A Secret Safe - The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn

14 year old me would’ve enjoyed this. Current me? Well….not so much. - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

My first Brandon Sanderson 3-Star Read, with a caveat! - White Sand: Vol. 1 (White Sand, #1) by Brandon Sanderson &

To Close the Gates to Hell - Sacrifice by Cindy Pon

Oceans rise, empires fall, it’s much harder when it’s all your call - Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

Beware the gossipy glitter birds - Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

A Book that Made Me Feel Old (or the kitchen in LeeAnn Chin’s was never like this) - Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

The Forgotten War need not be forgettable. - Colder Than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir by Joseph R. Owen

A soulmates through time romance - Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

Well, it’s going to be a great play! - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne

Kirk and Spock Entertain After Weeks of Meetings - Fun with Kirk and Spock by Robb Pearlman

Suspend Historical Knowledge, All Ye Who Enter Here - Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

Where I have nothing nice to say about a book I didn’t actually hate - Wicked Intentions (Maiden Lane #1) by Elizabeth Hoyt

Say what you wanna say, and let the words fall out - Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song by Sara Bareilles

Another romance hero with PTSD - How to Catch a Wild Viscount by Tessa Dare

Why are they all named Tom?? - Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #1) by Hilary Mantel

Your mom would like this one - Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres

Wishing and Drinking is a Dangerous Combination - Down with The Shine by Kate Karyus Quinn

Little Too Many Ideas - Little Nothing by Marisa Silver

Not with a vampire bang, but with a supe whimper - Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris

A Review in Two Segments - In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero and Michelle Burford

What the hell did I get up to last night? - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Mediocre but enjoyable. - NEED by Joelle Charbonneau

“I wear my mistakes like badges of honor, and I celebrate them.” - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

Banned Book Week Selection - Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin

Writing as therapy - Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

I loved the first third of this so much that the rest doesn’t even really matter. - The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

A very unusual memoir - I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir by Nadja Spiegelman

Perfectly Unmemorable - The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan

A Book for the BBC Movie At Home Set - It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History by Jennifer Wright

Barely connected to Anne at all - Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery

Arena - Arena by Holly Jennings

Look kids it’s Big Ben… - The Body at the Tower by Y.S. Lee

Find out who you are and do it on purpose - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

“I used to be someone.” - The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

A pretty cool sci-fi premise that I could see as our future - Lock In by John Scalzi

It made me want to go guava picking - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

Brides for Indians - One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

The girl with the red cloak and the boy with the silver hands – double Cannonball! - Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge

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