Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Brains and sex fight each other to control your life, and thank God brains get a head start before sex comes along - Cyteen by CJ Cherryh

The facts are in evidence, but the truth is never told - His Blood Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Mcrae by Graeme Mcrae Burnet

This Has All Happened Before and It Will All Happen Again - Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

Old Money, Twelfth Night and Murder - The English Wife by Lauren Willig

Oooph. - Just mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Thar be dragons - Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #7 - Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks

Adelaide’s Secret World - Adelaide's Secret World by Elise Hurst

I waited way too long to read this. - Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A fixed point in a changing age. - The Great Detective by Zach Dundas

“Night wasn’t so much falling as sharpening its claws.” - Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) by Jim Butcher

Precocity, Poison, and Pie - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley

Romance Novel or LA and SF food recommendation book? - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

A Personal View into Life under and after Apartheid - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Lit-Level Comic Writing - Vision Vol. 1: Little Worse Than A Man by Tom King

Another great entry in the delightfully weird and difficult to categorise Craft Sequence. - The Ruin of Angels: A Novel of the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone

Marriage is not an end. It is a means to an end. - If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together by James Sexton

The awkwardness of middle school and dental drama - Smile by Raina Telgemeier

Who let me start on another fantasy series? - Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

We can work it out - Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

What It’s Really Like - With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Dr. Kathryn Mannix

Liked it even more this time! - The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) by Robert Galbraith

Timing is Everything - Dead Wake: The last crossing of the Lusitainia by Erik Larson

I just need to focus on me right now - How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price

Revisiting an old favourite - Unveiled by Courtney Milan

Crash into you - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

A peak into a possible life - Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

Enchanting, atmospheric (and timely) read - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

“I know what it’s like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth.” - One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Orphan Train without the train - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn’t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.” - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Lucy Parker is another beneficiary of the Courtney Milan rule: the lesser of hers is still the better of most - Making Up (London Celebrities #3) by Lucy Parker

Not non-fiction but sadly it could be - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

A candy bar of a book - Lock in by John scalzi

Happiness is reading a good romance months before the actual release date - Making Up by Lucy Parker

Here be monsters (and angels) - Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Heavier Than You’d Think - Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green

You’ve Got (E)Mail… I’m secretly reading - Attachments: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

They’re doing senior-itis all wrong. - Super Powereds Year Four by Drew Hayes

Finally, a Romance Author Who Understands the Importance of Quality Snacks - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

“…Let me assure you, Lula – nobody’s normal.” - Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

Across the universe - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Strange weather, good stories - Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

Talk About a Bittersweet Symphony - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

What is your narrative? - Baldur’s Gate II by Matt Bell

Joe Dillard again - Injustice For All (Joe Dillard Series Book 3) and Reasonable Fear (Joe Dillard Series Book 4) by Scott Pratt

“Barack Obama’s election was a triumph of hope. But his presidency was a triumph of persistence.” - Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years by David Litt

“Name one hero who was happy.” - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Evolutionary Biology is on notice - Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine

Smug but probably right - The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols

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