Cannonball Read 18

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

Apparently The Abyss isn’t a big deal. - Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K. Ressler

Trot right over and find this foxy number! - Little Fox in the Snow by Jonathan London

A political system that might just make more sense then North America’s - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

Quick Charming Read to Start the Year - Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon

A Joyous Reintroduction to My True Love - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting. - Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Dead men don’t bite - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Under the Bridge - The Underbelly by Gary Phillips

YA + Alternative History + Zombies!! - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

an exercise in lying to liars - Transcription by Kate Atkinson

The least toxically masculine thing you will ever read. - Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu

Falling in Love with the Spirit in the Sword - Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

She left worst for last. - Oreo by Fran Ross

12th Century Boss Lady - The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick

“She did not like being a public person. She was happiest in her garden, at her country home.” - Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon

Here There Be Giant Catfish Monsters - A World Below by Wesley King

“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part.” - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Dead good - Dead Funny by Robin Ince, Johnny Mains

Muderbot and I Share So Much - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells; Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells; Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Chrono-Displaced Persons - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I liked this?????? - A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

It Happened Here - Collusion by Luke Harding

I couldn’t finish it - I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

British crime novels with double-meaning in the titles are becoming my jam - The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

I Tikka a Chance - Tikka Chance on Me by Suleikha Snyder

A Horrifying Look at Apartheid from the Inside - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

So Many Footnotes - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard

Touchdown - The Seventh by Richard Stark

Not a Single Dick-pun in this review. Not. A. Single. One. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

“I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know.” - Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) by Louise Penny

An illuminating book about the grossness of human behavior. - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Who’d a thunk a book with a train on the cover and set in the 30’s could actually be fun? - On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes - Pájaros en la boca y otros cuentos (Mouthful of Birds: Stories) by Samanta Schweblin

Now We’ve Got Vlad Blood - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

“Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.” - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Crime solving in Echo Park - Echo Park by Michael Connelly

…it never did any harm to walk through a new door now and then, and see where you end up. - Bellewhether by Susanna Kearsley

I am not smart enough for this book - Feel Free by Zadie Smith

Both Complex and Accurate - Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne

“We’re more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.” - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

WTF Indeed - The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker

I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame. - Lavinia by Ursula K. LeGuin

A beautiful, melancholy story from my Book Exchange buddy - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Under Construction - I Know What I’m Doing by Jen Kirkman

“If you can’t win the game, you have to cheat.” - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Lee, Mackenzi

What does the world need to become perfect? - The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf

Rennie can see what she is now: she’s an object of negotiation. - Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

the last of God’s children in a godless world - New Jerusalem by Paul Ham

This is all very annoying, you know; nothing disorganizes an army so much as a war. - The Generals' Tea Party by Boris Vian

What also pleased him was the stone of this countryside - The Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

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