Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Five minutes looking in his eyes, we all knew he was broken pretty bad - The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

I’m trying to write positive reviews, I promise! - The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child

Let’s Give It Up For America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman! - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

The Fastest Man Alive - The Flash: Vol 1 & 2: Move Forward and Rogues Revolution by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato

Slow Medicine - God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet

Insert fart joke here - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Her song would continue to haunt him for the rest of his days - Into Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason

Single White, Really White, Female - Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

There Are a Lot of Cadillacs in this Desert - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

I should have more faith in my fellow Cannonballers - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Cold Hearted Duke - More Than a Mistress by Mary Balogh

“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.” - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

J.K. Rowling is a goddess - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

If the Ghostbusters worked for the FBI - Harmony Black by Craig Schaefer

Science vs. Magic: Can’t We All Just Get Along? - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

A YA fantasy centering on a strong female friendship. - Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1) by Susan Dennard

Lord of the Flies meets American Psycho meets The Rum Diaries with just a dash of Seven Psychopaths - The Beach by Alex Garland

When in doubt, assume it’s about politics - Heavy Words Lightly Thrown by Chris Roberts

Vonnegut’s little war book. - Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Not the Destination but the Journey - The Martian by Andy Weir

A Delightful Regency Fantasy Novel - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Genre Mix and Match - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Trashy romance, but good - Unveiled by Courtney Milan

The opposite of slut-shaming - The Shameless Hour by Sarina Bowen

Sweet, sweet baby sleep. - The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep by Harvey Karp

An Odd Couple in Calcutta - The Strangler Vine by M. J. Carter

The Colt 45 of Space Comics - Lando by Charles Soule, Alex Maleev

A college romance with hockey and healthy servings of angst - The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen

Children of the Corn - The Harvest by Chuck Wendig

So Many Religious Puns… - The Wicked and the Divine: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie

A woman like me in at least one way - I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman

One of my favorite duos in literature - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith a/k/a J.K. Rowling

Not the brightest point in American history - The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Inception of books (have a totem handy). - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

If you have sex, you will get pregnant and you will die - Madame Bovary and Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Hardy

I’m a bad feminist! And you can be too! - Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Area X and its “poisonous” snakes (eye twitch) - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Possible Precursor to The Human Centipede? - Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo

“My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.” - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

Put this in your bug-out bag - How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters: Fight Back When Monsters and Mother Nature Attack by Andrew Shaffer

Bradbury was the Best! - Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Someone pay me to travel around Europe eating tasty food and kissing cute boys. - An Age of License by Lucy Knisley

Clown disquiet - It by Stephen King

Re-reading an old favorite. - The Invasion (Animorphs, #1) by K.A. Applegate

An uncommon perspective - A Book of Uncommon Prayer by Brian Doyle

“Pluto is dead” –Mike Brown - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

Demonic boogaloo and the electric slide - John Dies at the End by David Wong

Keeping up with the Walkers - Abigail Tarttelin by Golden Boy

“The definition of sanity is a democratic thing. They get to decide…” - Calvin by Martine Leavitt

Always Dance it Out - Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

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