Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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It’s Not Looking Good But I Can’t Stop Now Part 4

From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger

Funny Story by Emily Henry

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore (Translator), Elizabeth Manton (Translator)

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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The colon returns: Revenge of the colon. Book 16: From One Cell: A Journey into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine by Ben Stanger Rough Review: 4 stars. I particularly enjoyed the last chapter, “Day Science and Night Science” – reading that whole section made me want to get a job in a lab and just start some Night meandering. I share the author’s concerns that the focus on practical applications (read: ways [for pharmaceutical companies] to make money) over general knowledge gathering is […]

An Increasingly Unhinged Collection of Stream of Consciously Annotated Reviews Part 3

Witch King by Martha Wells

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

The Searcher by Tana French

Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Book 11: Witch King by Martha Wells Rough Review: I really wanted to like this one. As yet another big fan of Murderbot, I trust Martha Wells’ character creation and storytelling abilities, and was looking forward to seeing what she could do with a fantasy world, but it was hard for me to connect to this one. Other than Bashasa, who is not a main character, I wasn’t particularly interested in anyone here. Despite the whole book being from his POV, I never felt like I got […]

Marathon Typo-Riddled Book Review Collection Part 2

Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell

Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

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I see I was in my semicolon era here. Book 6: Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes – A Deeply Informative Tour of Evolution’s Imperfections and Compromises by Nathan H. Lents Rough Review: 3.5 stars because I would have liked a longer, more in-depth look at most of what he talked about , although I understand the aim was to reach a much broader audience than one particular little biology nerd. This book (or perhaps more accurately, the […]

I got 3 hours and 52 books. Let’s see if I can finally do this.

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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Whelp, I apologize in advance for what I’m about to do. For 17 years I have been trying to complete a full Cannonball and I have never once succeeded. Sometimes I don’t read enough, but mostly I don’t write enough. I get caught up in knots trying to write a perfect review and then worry I’m spending too much time writing instead of reading and it becomes a whole thing because my brain is a nightmare. So this year I decided I’d just write rough […]

“Don’t limit your dreams, that’s what the school Careers Adviser said. Within reason.”

D: A Tale of Two Worlds by Michel Faber

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A fantasy novel about words and friendship that Neil Gaiman finds glorious? How could this go wrong? I was so excited to read this book, about what might happen when the letter D slowly starts disappearing from the world and only one young girl, Dhikilo Saxardiid Samawada Bentley, seems to notice. I know some people find it cutesy, but I happen to love stories with a warm, friendly narrator who enjoys wordplay and speaks directly to the reader. It’s why The Hobbit is my favourite […]

Midsomer Murders She Wrote

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

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I feel like I should get credit for reading two books here, as once again, one entire novel is sandwiched around another in Anthony Horowitz’s second Susan Ryeland/Atticus Pünd murder(s) mystery. And this time it’s murder squared. In Moonflower Murders, Susan Ryeland (our heroine from Magpie Murders, which I thoroughly enjoyed) is running a hotel on Crete with her boyfriend Andreas, but instead of enjoying paradise, she feels miserable. The hotel’s got money problems, she’s working 24/7, and her relationship with Andreas is souring. When […]



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