Cannonball Read 18

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

Blow me a story - The Boy and the Wild Blue Girl by Keith Negley

The economy of art - The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson

Hop along Teetu - The Bold, Brave Bunny by Beth Ferry

A cabbage adventure - Snail Crossing by Corey R. Tabor

She blinded us all with science (and water from a rocket) - Libby Loves Science by Kimberly Dertin

In a few months you too can love Poppy - A Way with Wild Things by Larissa Theule

Monsters on the Ice - The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Shield - The Force by Don Winslow

“We are all of us ill prepared for what is to come” - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

“Not that an asteroid crashing into our planet is a good thing, but it does put everything else into perspective.” - The World Ends in April by McAnulty, Stacy

Here Come the Witcher Reviews! - The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

Intense happiness - Felicity by Mary Oliver

The fridged women speak. - The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente

Attention all people who love Jane Austen, I have a good book for you. - Jane Austen: The Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

Out of print, but my (and yours too) library should have a copy of this - Peanut by Ayun Halliday

Space Opera Done Fantastic - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Out of Print, but should not be forgotten - Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff

I’m as bad as the fool: filling up greedily, wanting more, loving it but not feeling satisfied - Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

“The estranged is striving for reunion.” - Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications by Paul Tillich

Jerry Barlow eased the ’67 Sportster to the edge of the sand road and shut off the motor. - Tiny Love by Larry Brown

The house, like the party, was subsiding. - Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk

Scouts in Spaaaaace!!!!!!! - The Star Scouts by Mike Lawrence; Star Scouts: The League of Lasers by Mike Lawrence

Two Stories, Rethought - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld; Thor Vol 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron

Make it work - The Natty Professor by Tim Gunn

Two books, one review - The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman; The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 2 by P. Craig Russell

Squad Ghouls - Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel

“And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.” - Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear

Leggo your eggo - Decisive by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

“Our lack of power and our oppression are one and the same…” - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Station Eleven, but in One Place - The Last by Hanna Jameson

Brooklyn, Brooklyn Take Me In - The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster

Short story review dump (Part I) - The Lottery by Shirley Jackson; Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami; Mastiff by Joyce Carol Oates; A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro; King of the Elves by Philip K Dick; The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami

If you’re patient it’s not a bad read. - Dracula by Bram Stoker

Break it down, get it done. - Get Your Sh*t Together by Sarah Knight

We Are So Much More Than The Work We Do - A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength - Lethal White by Robert Galbraith

eating vegetables: the essay collection - Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

“So Much for King Kong” - Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani

Get a New Line of Work? - Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake Book #4) by Rachel Caine

Might try something a bit cheerier for my next book… - She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

An old favorite - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Strange and stranger - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor; Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

“Theorizing that one could time travel …” - The Time Museum V01 by Matthew Loux

…another man and what he wanted from me was the last thing I needed - Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

June 1941… I remember it. - Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich

Gives ‘fashion conscious’ a new meaning - The Conscious Closet by Elizabeth L. Cline

Cleveland’s Steel Mill is a Great Place To Figure Your S*** Out - Rust by Eliese Colette Goldbach

Getting Into Dodge - Doc by Mary Doria Russell

Part history of mental health, part investigation into an infamous mental health study. - The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

You really do want to be careful with buffets – especially seafood - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

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