Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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A girl came out of lawyer Royall’s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood at the doorstep. - Summer by Edith Wharton

“We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours.” - Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris

They Sure Do - Everybody Dies by Lawrence Block

Murder, slow and detailed - The Black Tower by P.D. James

Recursion is repetitive - Recursion by Blake Crouch

Second Books in a Series Always Drag - Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

Snap, Crackle, but no Pop - Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Full of Highs and Lows - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

No They Sure Can’t - Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block

Cannonball! - The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

A Blended Family Drama Spanning Decades that Gets Bogged Down By It’s Numerous Characters - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

If nantucket had a dick, I’d suck it. - Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand

It ends with a text, friend to friend: I’m out. - And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks

Should have stayed on the farm - Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith

Percy Jackson and the Thief of Lightning - The Lighning Thief by Rick Riordan

An Urban Fantasy Noir with an Intriguing World, but with a Slow Burn Pace that Doesn’t Sizzle Quite Enough - The Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

Good, but Forgettable - Grace is Gone by Emily Elgar

Six Drinks and A Few Empires - A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

Houston Has a Problem - Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg

Interesting. But. Choppy. And. Depressing. - Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey

Secondhand happiness - The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy

If you’re presuming a Regency Romance, you presumed correctly - Mr. Cavendish I Presume by Julia Quinn

This series is good, feminist fun, but this book was a little overstuffed. - Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2) by Lyssa Kay Adams

A realistic look back at surviving the zombie apocalypse - World War Z by Max Brooks

And the winner is…….. PEANUT - Peanut Goes for the Gold by Jonathan Van Ness

An adventure in name, but almost not in reality - The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship by Philip Pullman

I wish I may I wish I might you have this wish tonight - The Perfectly Perfect Wish by Lisa Mantchev

A little Blarney - Three Ways to Trap a Leprechaun by  Tara Lazar

It was fine! - You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe

A gender swapped romance retelling of a classic rom com - Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher

Marisol got into an intense relationship with the people on The Facts of Life… - As Good as New by Charlie Jane Anders; The Cartography of Sudden Death by Charlie Jane Anders; Six Months Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders

The bloom has come off the Rose - You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

How He Wins - Texas By The Tail by Jim Thompson

A bit of a Carry On… - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Another Cinderella Story - Sootypaws: A Cinderella Story by Maggie Rudy

A good walk spoiled - Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

What you do see that helps what you do - In a Garden by Tim McCanna

What does that command mean? - I Love You, Fred! by Mick Inkpen

Be You - The Box Turtle by Vanessa Roeder; Glad, Glad Bear! by Kimberly Gee

Normal Fallacy - Normal People by Sally Rooney

A middling Daisy Dalrymple story, but the characters make it worth reading - The Corpse at the Crystal Palace by Carola Dunn

Long But Good - The Break by Marian Keyes

Now and Again - Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield

I did not know this was about space viruses when I started it - Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress

One book’s worth of story stretched into a trilogy of books - The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton; The Redhead Revealed by Alice Clayton; The Redhead Plays Her Hand by Alice Clayton

Buzz buzz and swarm away - Beehive by Jorey Hurley

“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.” - In Order to Live: a North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers

Florida Gothic - This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden

Mental archaeology - Unthinkable by Meghan Daum

Under My Bed, In Your Head - The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley

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