Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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It all hinges on kindness - It Started With a Scandal by Julie Anne Long

Sweet, Dirty, and Wild - Sweet Filthy Boy, Dirty Rowdy Thing, and Dark Wild Night by Christina Lauren

The Story is More about the Hangman Than His Daughter - The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch

I…I have so many mixed feelings about this one - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

A House for the Season Book 4 - Rake's Progress by M.C. Beaton

Same Bartimaeus, Different Century - Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud

a dead man behind the wheel - The Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon

Maybe its disjointedness is on purpose? - The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Tricky Dick - January 1973: Watergate, Roe V. Wade, Vietnam, and the month that changed America forever by James Robenalt

Sympathy for the Devil - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.” - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, Martin Freeman (narrator)

Girl Undecided - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Not Laura Lippman - Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Beware the Sea Anemone - Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

A Good Start That Never Quite Gets There - You're Never Weird On The Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day

If you think you’ve been here before, you have. - The Last Colony / Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

Your Mileage May Vary - Saga by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples

And Then I Started Unnecessarily Going Off About Unnecessary Romantic Sub-Plots - Sabriel by Garth Nix

Seriously, think about becoming a organ and tissue donor. - Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Not Everything in the Teen Paranormal Romance Section is a Lost Cause - Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

We only see what we want to see and that’s how mistakes are made - Sweet Caress by Willam Boyd

Dooce! - It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather B. Armstrong

Looking for love in all the digital places - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

Jump already, Laney! - Off the Edge (The Associates, #2) by Carolyn Crane

An Adequate View - Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

the Ship of Dreams - The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

Religious nutballs, an awkward teenager, and a creepy ice cream truck driver make terrible decisions - The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinski

Colder Than a Witch’s Best Not To Think of That Sort of Thing, Really - Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

Not With a Bang, But A Viral Video of Keyboard Cat - Zer0es by Chuck Wendig

Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing, Baby - The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

Get Your Unreliable Narrators Here! - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

And that was how Maigret began his investigation by helping bring a pure-bred Friesian calf into the world - A Crime in Holland by Georges Simenon

The first mediocre book in what turns out to be a pretty awful series. - Jedi Search (The Jedi Academy, #1) by Kevin J. Anderson

We were all trying strenuously to walk on the wild side - Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s by Brad Gooch

One last Ride with Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens - Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard

I keep wanting to love Kate Morton’s books, and it keeps not happening. - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Enter Raylan Givens - Pronto by Elmore Leonard

Minerva Highwood’s great-great-great granddaughter is free on Kindle, but her book could be better - Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City Book 1) by Penny Reid

A checklist of 80’s trivia in book form - Armada by Ernest Cline

Definitely not Ready Player One - Armada by Ernest Cline

An unusual family, to be sure - Bastards: A Memoir by Mary Anna King

Not Your Grandmother’s Unicorn - Immortal Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle and Janet Berliner, Editors

I would watch this on TV - Also Known As by Robin Benway

One of those dystopian futures that really could happen. - The Subprimes by Karl Taro Greenfield

Foist This Upon Your Teenagers - Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

“Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.” - Trade Me (Cyclone #1) by Courtney Milan

An interesting young adult historical novel - Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

the space between the sea and the horizon - Still Waters (Sandhamn Murders Book 1) by Viveca Sten

Deus Ex Blasting Ya - The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan

Loses Some Bang By The End - The Powder Mage Short Stories: Forsworn, Servant of the Crown, Murder at the Kinnen Hotel, Hope's End, The Face in the Window, and Return to Honor by Brian McClellan

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