Cannonball Read 18

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

It’s easier to disregard society’s constraints when you’re rich - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

[existentialist quote here] - How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet

“Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run.” - The House Girl by Tara Conklin

Look into your eyes and the sky’s the limit - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he’d never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn’t because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn’t help it.” - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

“Live by lies” - Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators by Jay Nordlinger

Satire with a heart - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket - Stardust by Neil Gaiman

This book made me stay up all night so now I’m blaming it like a petulant child. - The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons, #2) by Julia Quinn

A Promising New (to me) Author - A Lady's Guide to Skirting Scandal by Kelly Bowen

World Building for Dummies - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Didn’t like it then, now I do. It’s magic! - Storm Front (Dresden Files, #1) by Jim Butcher

The fight gets personal for Rachel. - The Visitor (Animorphs, #2) by K.A. Applegate

‘Pride and Prejudice’ meets ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ is actually a pretty apt comparison. - The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman

Resist the urge to go fetal - Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

What are we?………Werewolves, not Swearwolves. - The Dresden Files (books 2-3) by Jim Butcher

Gotta love a fake engagement plot. - The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1) by Julia Quinn

Alexia flies in a dirigible and attends a mummy-unwrapping party, which was apparently a thing. - Changeless (The Parasol Protectorate, #2) by Gail Carriger

The Spirit of ’76 - Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76 by Dan Epstein

The Pros and Cons of Fillers - The Dirt on Ninth Grave by Darynda Jones

Gilley needs to be smacked - A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder by Victoria Laurie

You saved the world two days ago. Time to save it again - The Brimstone Deception by Lisa Shearin

It’s hard out here for a wizard - Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane

Not your great-great-grandfather’s War of the Worlds. - Fear the Sky by Stephen Moss

A Satisfying Sequel - Pacific Fire by Greg van Eekhout

Eventually always becomes inevitably - No Sleep Till Wonderland by Paul Tremblay

Girl, look at the choices you are making - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

A Wounded Hero Done Very Well - His Road Home by Anna Richland

Cheesy in a good way - Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

The Girl Needs an AA Meeting. - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

My Rooms Don’t Have Ghosts, Just Fresh Paint - Rooms by Lauren Oliver

The Bleakest PNR I’ve Ever Read - Working Stiff by Rachel Caine

A fast-paced middle book that doesn’t suffer from Middle Book Syndrome - Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

Another contemporary romance with rich and powerful Texans - Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas

My Last Chance to Feel Human - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Maybe she’s a cylon - The Likeness by Tana French

Obsession - The Widow: A Novel by Fiona Barton

Why weren’t the movies based on this? - Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende

A Primer on Prayer - Before Amen: The Power of the Simple Prayer by Max Lucado

Where is my mind? - Lock In by John Scalzi

Music Directing: Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start - The Musical Director's Handbook by Stuart Morley

I Think This is the Start of a Beautiful Friendship - Still Life by Louise Penny

In Which I Name Drop My Fellow Cannonballers - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people - Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

Go North, Young Hippie - Drop City by T.C. Boyle

silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

At least it wasn’t Piers Anthony’s Utopia - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer

No-no-Notorious - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

“The darkest minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces” - The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

That is essentially, exactly the way it happened - Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

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