Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade… - The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Fated mates with dark needs and desires - Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole; Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole; Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole

Bleak House - Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

Relay-Reading Murderbot - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Bring Out Your Dead - A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

Slivers of Hope in an Unknown Doorway - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Many Americans right now are acting like Jeevan in the snowstorm. Life is imitating art. - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

I may have read too many books, you guys. - The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Lost It At the Movies - Double Feature by Donald Westlake

Satisfaction Guaranteed - Lost Light by Michael Connelly

“I buried my hands in my pockets, curious at the enormity of it all.” - Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the quintessential cozy mystery - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Ninth House is great, but it’s not a feel-good read - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A debut romance that is MUCH better than its painfully pink cover would indicate - A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy

Lady Day Lived the Blues -  Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday by Paola Parisi,

When Fairies want your head and you just want to go home - Sparrowhawk (Books 1 to 5) by Delilah S. Dawson

Toronto: If you make it there, you can be a Comic Book Star (1939-1945) - War Bears by Margaret Atwood

Nothing beats pure talent - Range by David Epstein

While we waited we were visited by the ghosts of the girls who had already died. - The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories by Aysa Papatya Bucak

I always get the shakes before a drop. - Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein

…And the Streets Are Mean - The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block

So many Cannonballers can’t be wrong - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

It’s the end of the world as they knew it - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Sweet and Honest - I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

Superficially, it’s a comedy fantasy with pirates and otters but underneath is so much more - The Princess Beard by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

When one year doesn’t follow the next - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

“When you’re a kid, it’s hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.” - St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

In the morning, the one who is mostly enlightened comes in. - Weather by Jenny Offill

Oh-hi-oh - What You Want To See by Kristen Lepionka

“And how many times have I prayed the angels would speed me away” - Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Endings and beginnings - The Tower of Swallows: A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

An impossible job, near certain death, terrible odds…I love a good heist! - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Reclaiming the Sex Appeal of Mr. Collins - The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon

More than one “Little Mama” in this story - Little Mama by Halim Mahmouidi

Why Don’t We Get Together and Call Ourselves an Institute? - The Institute by Stephen King

It’s tough to pull off a mass-puking scene in a romance novel, but apparently not impossible - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Visceral Glory - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

With a cheep cheep here and cheep cheep there - Five Fuzzy Chicks by Diana Murray

Born a Slave Became a Botanist, Scientist, Inventor - The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta

Poetry and Politics Can Be Interesting - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Every female wants to be loved by a male. - The Will to Change by bell hooks

We are no more than shadows flickering briefly on the moors. But the flickering is beautiful. - A Black Fox Running by Brian Carter

Bootylicious - Misadventures of a Curvy Girl by Sierra Simone

I have spent a good deal of 2020 in a cadaver-shaped hole. - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire. - Lark Rise by Flora Thompson; Over to Candleford by Flora Thompson; Candleford Green by Flora Thompson

“The totality of human endeavor is nothing when set against the stars.” - The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch

Monsters and Heroes - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

Finding family - All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Oedipus and Electra - Cropper's Cabin by Jim Thompson

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