Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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So you’re saying the movie 300 might not have been historically accurate? - What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Glorious depravity - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Always re-read your books, people. You never know what you’ll find if you go digging back in there. - American Gods: The 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman

Good Companion Piece to Hidden Figures et al - The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Thanks to the CBR romance readers hive mind for this one. - Kulti by Mariana Zapata

The Repercussions of Drugging Unwitting Children (And Other Things) - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

An Unsung American Hero - Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

That’s Where I Started to Be My Own Person - The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant

Just as good as I remembered! - The Protector of the Small Quartet: First Test, Page, Squire, Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce

Not exactly a romantic couples’ trip to England - Every Word by Ellie Marney

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop by Beverly Lowry

Another blunt and real Fisher memoir - Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher: blunt and real to the very last word. - Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Meet Tarell Alvin McCraney, your new playwright boyfriend. - The Brother/Sister Plays: In the Red and Brown Water; The Brothers Size; Marcus, or The Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ second Black Panther outing - Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Volume 2 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chris Sprouse, Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, and Brian Stelfreeze

This is Torture - Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd

This is the Zodiac Speaking. - Zodiac by Robert Graysmith

Gentleman prefers Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

She was bad…always - New Year's Day by Edith Wharton

Resonating for the last 135 years - An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

“Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution.” - Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas

Fifties and Sixties Time Travel - Time-Jump by John Brunner

Here kitty, kitty - Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology by Caroline Paul & Wendy MacNaughton

Gay romance, burnt food, and examinations of masculinity - The Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau & Rachel Haimowitz

Where are our Old Masters? - False Dawn by Edith Wharton

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.” - Lexicon by Max Barry

Playing in the Sandbox - In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox by Carol Burnett

The Real Housewives of Eugene, OR - Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life by Laurie Notaro

Grounded, imaginative YA fantasy. - Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn

Everyone Loves Gossip…Until It’s About Them #truth - The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand

I said, murder, good God, now, what is it good for? - Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie

Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer - Summer in Orcus by T. Kingfisher

Fools in the Northeast: Round 2 - Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo

The Good Immigrant – or how I realized how racist I’ve been all my life - The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

And all that jazz… - Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

Norse Gods Doing Norse God-like Things - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

“It must have been like consciously uncoupling from Eyore and eloping with Baloo” - Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

Cranky Old Women are Delightful to Read About - The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Secrets are lies. [Also, pizza gif within] - The Circle by Dave Eggers

Three Women against all the forces of evil - The Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Everything in its Right Place - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

I LOVE SPACE - Mass Effect Library Edition Volume 1 by Mac Walters

I Didn’t Review This Last Year - A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

I somehow accidently read another ghost story – this one was better though! - Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Red Really is My Color - Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Yer Going to Get Sick of All The Harry Potter Reviews CBR - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Douglas Adams, Terry Gilliam, and Martin Freeman walk into a bar…. - The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

I’m pretty sure this interview lasted longer than sundown to sunrise… - Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

Rereading Harry Potter for Sanity and Resistance, Book 2 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

Lucy grows a backbone - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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