Cannonball Read 18

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

Interesting, Sure - Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity - What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder

Dancing is Dangerous Work - Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire

“That’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.” - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Omnis Vir Lupus. - Morning Star by Pierce Brown

I just wasn’t into this multi-Doctor meet-up 🙁 - Doctor Who: Four Doctors by Paul Cornell & Neil Edwards

She Has a Blow Hole! - Love, Lattes and Mutants by Sandra Cox

I Got On This Train Too - The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins

Catching Literal Flak - The Wrong Stuff by Truman Smith

Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful. - Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

The book that would never end. - A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6) by Diana Gabaldon

Journal of Meh - A Journal of Sin (A Sarah Gladstone Thriller #1) by Darryl Donaghue

The One Everyone Seems to Like the Most - Star Wars Trilogy: The Empire Strikes Back (Junior Novelization) by Ryder Windham

“Everyone’s got a different story.” - Room by Emma Donoghue

A Necessary Slog - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner

The light has gone dark - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

A Big Hallucination to Move the Plot Along… Next Time - Chew, volume 8: Family Recipies by John Layman and Rob Guillory

You’ve got to hide your love away - The Price of Salt (read in Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories) by Patricia Highsmith

I know the birds were supposed to be important because the title said so - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Thank you for being a friend - My First Five Husbands... and the ones who got away by Rue McClanahan

How NyQuil killed my buzz for great big Russian novels. - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It’s Not JUST for Parents - The Three-Martini Family Vacation: A Field Guide to Intrepid Parenting by Christie Mellor

The Rainbow Man’s kind of a dick - When Mockingbirds Sing by Billy Coffey

A disappointing novelization. - The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster

Not A Drop To Drink - Thirst by Benjamin Warner

Lessons in Double Checking Genres - The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen

I Think Lisa Kleypas was working through some issues - Blue-Eyed Devil and Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

“I wish I knew how to quit you.” - Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Not so hidden flame - The Case of the Hidden Flame by Allison Golden and Grace Dagnall

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Where’s MY nickname? - Hell On Wheels by Julie Ann Walker

Sophie was beginning to realize there was nothing to be done about actors - Funny Girl by Nick Hornby

Marty’s Memoir - I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short

“All her streets obscure / Sparkle and swarm with nothing true nor sure,” - The Town in Bloom by Dodie Smith

Rare Disappointment in Discworld - Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett

Side character gets a starring role - Unlocked by Courtney Milan

The heart wants what it wants - A Dream of Desire by Nina Rowen

I am so glad I read the Wild Seasons series first - Beautiful Bastard and Beautiful Bitch by Christina Lauren

I pity books that follow amazing reads, it’s very hard to be fair to them - Wollf Justice by Doranna Durgin

The Darkness Inside Us - My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

Are aliens trying to kill us? - The Forge of God by Greg Bear

Don’t Get Your Pants in a Bunch - That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us by Erin Moore

Scandalous! - Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen

Too many subplots that could have been novels themselves - Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade

A resounding “meh.” - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty

Literary Equivalent of Peppermint Joe-Joes - After You by Jojo Moyes

As Secret Identities Go, It’s Not A Very Good One - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

I Doubt Love is the Word for it, but Like Will Do - Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner

Where it all began - Star Wars Trilogy: A New Hope (Junior Novelization) by Ryder Windham

Storycraft 101 - Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel

A Hellion in Pants - The Lady Hellion by Joanna Shupe

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