Cannonball Read 18

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

Get Out but with a New Orleans Setting - The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Show Improves the Faults of the Book - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

stories about WOMEN by WOMEN for WOMEN…have I said WOMEN enough yet? - This Telling by Cheryl Strayed; Graceful Burdens by Roxane Gay; Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes; The Contractors by Lisa Ko; Halfway to Free by Emma Donogue; Bear Witness by Mary Gaitskill; Shine, Pamela! Shine! by Kate Atkinson

A delightfully quick and fun mystery - The House on the Water by Margot Hunt

Interesting exploration on how we find meaning, iffy delivery - The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino

Fine - Survival of the Thickest by Michelle Buteau

When What You Think Is Real, Isn’t - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

It Started Out Strong but Didn’t Stick the Landing - The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata

Fern and Otto besties on an adventure - Fern and Otto: A Story about Two Best Friends by Stephanie Graegin

Just breathe, Juliet, just breathe - Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

I found this dull, and won’t be continuing the series. - Forest of a Thousand Lanterns (Rise of the Empress, #1) by Julie C. Dao

Rudderless - Spineless by Juli Berwald

Aww Shucks - Shucked by Erin Byers Murray

That Is a Very Different Life - Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid by Margaret Powell

An abundant world of recipes, most of which I’ll never cook - Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry

Ehhh, it was fine, but a lot of the magic was lost from the first - The Glamourist by Luanne G. Smith

A rush through the author’s experience - Home Body by Rupi Kaur

Not as good as her last one - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Scooting on My Arse, Flying Between Fight Scenes. And I’m Failing to Articulate - Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

Thank you, I know what fads are. - Flavor of the Month by Joel Best

Mindless Creator - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I’m gonna have fun with Hillbilly Elegy, aren’t I? - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

I Can’t Tell One From Another - This Must Be The Place by Maggie O'Farrell

I mean, new-new? - A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

Things We Still Don’t Talk About Today - Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco

Man of La Mafia - The Kiss Off by Jim Cirni

Dying for Brain Candy? A cozy fine mystery series. - Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2) by Diane Mott Davidson

Okay, I’m cheating. The second image belongs to book one. I just like it! - The Time Museum V02 by Matthew Loux

Opposites Attract Fake Relationship Holiday Romance Novella – a book made for me - Her Pretend Christmas Date (Cider Bar Sisters #2.5) by Jackie Lau

Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates - Karen’s Roller Skates: Babysitters Little Sister Graphic novel by Ann Martin

Teen Lois has a long way to go before she becomes Lois Lane, great journalist - Lois Land and the Friendship Challenge by Grace Ellis

An Impenetrable Cloud Was Lifted - Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume

Tales from the Bottom of a Winter Coat Pocket - Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch; The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch; The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

Some big hits and major misses in an overall forgettable collection - Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane by Jonathan Oliver

Sweet but not sickly so - Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Another solid work from Charlie N Holmberg - Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg

Two powerhouses of speculative fiction do not necessarily equal a great story. - The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal

Names, family and two neat books - Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow; The Gifts of Being Grand: For Grandparents Everywhere by Marianne Richmond

Small poetry book; big punch - Crown Nobel by Bianca Phipps

“Lightning-struck until your heart’s split open, but you never stop reaching for something more. - Just Like This by Cole McCade

“There is a pay phone by a truck stop near the town of Leonard, Arizona. Sometimes at night it starts to ring.” - Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

Not all rainbows in these celebrity memoirs - We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union; Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) by Rosie Perez

It turns out that sometimes having a background in English literature pays off - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling. - Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

“It is very important to approach all unpleasant tasks in life as a performance art piece, especially if you are a teenager.” - Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country & Other Stories by Chavisa Woods

3/4 of a Good Book (Belated Bingo – Yellow) - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beautiful Wandering Writing - The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts

Oh Murderbot, why did it take me so long to heed your call? - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

All you’re getting from me this year is a half Cannonball, so it may as well be for a Magary book. - Point B by Drew Magary

Frustrating. - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

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