Cannonball Read 17

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

I should like this book but don’t really. - Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

But I miss those hills with the windy pines - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe

I Slam The Door But Watch What I Say - Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Stepford Town, but not as clever. - Wayward by Blake Crouch

Lacking Evil-Geniusness - Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

Flowery Language Won’t Distract Me From My Concerns - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

NightinFail - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

A Tana French wannabe - False Mermaid by Erin Hart

I’m Haunted By the Lives That Wove the Web - The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

You’d Think I’d Learn - Mission to Universe by Gordon R. Dickson

Eminently OK true crime - The Axeman of New Orleans by Miriam C Davis

A Story Focused on Scent… and It Stinks! - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

A disappointing history of Nancy Drew, my childhood hero. - Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

Don’t break my rules, please. - If we were villains by M.L. Rio

The Bulletproof Diet - The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey

It Can’t Happen Here - It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Black Canary - The Black Canary by Jane Louise Curry

Get it together, Maas - Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas

If it bleeds, it leads… - Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer

These people are in lust, not love - Winning It All (Hometown Players) by Victoria Denault

Pseudoscience and Nonsense - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

It wore out its “welcome” almost immediately. - The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks by Bethany Keeley

Like “The Secret” With Cussing. That is Not A Compliment. - You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero

Ugh Part two - The Perfectionist by Joyce Carol Oates

I mean it’s better, but with one huge caveat - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Forgive me, I did not like this - Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Am I getting to old for this shit? - Becky Albertalli by The Upside of Unrequited

This one feels like a cheat - Gone by Adam Croft

Not another thing, please - And another thing... by Eoin Colfer

Modern Fairytale. Race Relations. Intriguing premise, flat execution. - Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

I Might Be in the Minority Here, But I Wasn’t Really Feeling This One - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

How to Train Your Duchess - My Fair Duchess by Megan Frampton

Maybe It’s Because I Like My Dresses To Come in Bright Colors - White Dresses - A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters by Mary Pflum Peterson

I should not be obliged to hear this voice. - White Tears by Hari Kunzra

We’re all flawed - Go set a watchman by Harper Lee

Some folks is brushed by the hand o’ God. Some folks brushed by that Other One. - Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2) by Balogun Ojetade

The Woman in Cabin 10 or How Unreliable is this Narrator, Really? - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

I will not submit. - Submission by Michel Houellebecq

This took three years to write? - Unfriending My Ex: And Other Things I'll Never Do by Kim Stolz

Too Much and Too Little: The Muse - The Muse by Jessie Burton

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt - Company Town by Madeline Ashby

- The sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Random and Vaguely Disturbing - Eggshells by Caitriona Lally

Reading the reviews sums up the experience. - Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh. - Nugget & Fang Friends Forever- or Snack Time? by Tammi Sauer and Michael Slack

My Watch Has Ended - Dead Ever After & After Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #13 & 13.5) by Charlaine Harris

So much yawn - The Third Gate by Lincoln Child

Going South - The North Water by Ian McGuire

Lost and Found? - The Lost City of Z by David Grann

All ends well for the white man. - Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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