Cannonball Read 17

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

In the City of Mirages - The Temptation of Forgiveness (Commissario Brunetti 27) by Donna Leon

Problematic nostalgia - The Mountain of Adventure by Enid Blyton

Marshmallow fluff of mystery novels - The Serial Killers Club by Jeff Povey

I wanted to love this book, but I didn’t - Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

I Wanted More From This - Daring and the Duke by Sarah McLean

A Disappointing Story but one with interesting ideas - Unsouled by Will Wight

Am I crazy? - The Nuclear Age by Tim O'Brien

Great Premise That Fell Apart Under the Weight of It’s Episodic Musings - Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage

A Unlikable Bibliophile is Actually Possible; I have proof - Ascendance of a Bookworm (Part 1 Vol 1) by Miya Kazuki

Oh yeah, that thing where you actually *post* the reviews you write! - Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Thirty five hundred at Saks-Fifth Avenue. - Good Behavior by Blake Crouch

Without claiming races there would be no racing at all. - Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon

Completely unlikeable characters ruin a great premise - An Unwanted Stranger by Shari Lapena

Washed Over - Asymmetry by Lisa Hallifay

A Colossal Disappointment - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

I found the bungalow and rang the bell. - Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary D Wolfe

A cute premise but ultimately a forgettable book - Trouble in Mudbug by Jana Deleon

Begin at the end - The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

Cool Premise, but a So-So Execution - All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

Somebody had to do it. - Byrne by Anthony Burgess

This Country Girl will stay that way after reading about these City Girls - The City Girls by Aki

Big brooding vampires in a series not for me - Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

Something Was Amiss - Coming Home by Tetiana Trofusha

When the word story is better than the graphic version - The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, Vol. 2 (manga) by Guru Mizoguchi, Usata Nonhara, Ox

I found myself talking back to the audiobook - Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Great mystery and setting hampered by repetition - In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

A great series goes out with a whimper - The King of Crows by Libba Bray

Sometimes a book is just meh - Cronin's Key by N.R. Walker; Cronin's Key II by N.R. Walker; Cronin's Key III by N.R. Walker; Kennard's Story by N.R. Walker

What Mighty Fools These Red Sox Be! - Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker

Alternative Title: The Privilege of Being Idle - How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

I wouldn’t be sad if she stayed lost - Lost by Joy Fielding

Pulp Fiction - The Serialist by David Gordon

King Midas Must Fail - Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks

This Feeling of Numbness is Highly Relatable but Not The Best Reading Experience - The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

Ryan was nearly killed twice in half an hour. - Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

This was a hot, sloppy mess. - The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1) by Nora Sakavic

She’s no Stephanie Plum - Full Scoop by Janet Evanovitch

Nostalgia isn’t helping this one - Slumber Party by Christopher Pike

Round, like a circle in a spiral… - The Circle by Dave Eggers

So close and yet so far… - I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle

He was an angry man, and an ugly man, and he was tall, and he was pacing. - All this Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

I Feel Like the Unlucky One for Picking This Up - The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day

One day in my young youth at high summer, lolling with my lovely companions upon a haystack, I found a needle. - The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark

I have a pact with myself not to think about money in the morning. - Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Libris Mediocris - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

I’ve always bristled at it…. - Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves. - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Where did my reading time go? - The Book of Ballads and Sagas by Charles Vess

“Write everything down.” - I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

Everything was a mess, especially in the dark. - Barn Blind by Jane Smiley; You Shall Know Them by Vercours

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