Cannonball Read 17

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

Better than The Trap, worse than having not read it - Disclaimer by Renee Knight

Bark bark bark bark bark - Bark by Lorrie Moore

Even H.G. Wells Can’t Save a Timey Wimey Mess - Expeditions to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder

A lot of wasted potential - Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal

Canadian Goonies - Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks

The Hearts Wants What It Wants - Wicked Heart by Leisa Rayven

Don’t Judge an Author by One Book (Especially Not This One) - Destination: Void by Frank Herbert

‘Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Core of the Disturbance - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Yeah, but WHY are they friends? - The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

If you like descriptions of cleaning and sorting wires…this one’s for you! Including some [NSFW] gif’ing - The pile of stuff at the bottom of the stairs by Christina Hopkinson

Good at Games - Good at Games by Jill Mansell

Book Two Doesn’t Work At All - Roadside Crosses by Jeffrey Deaver

“I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself” - The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

“All secrets lead back to the big secret. To give one thing away means to give everything away.” - Invisibility by Andrea Cremer, David Levithan

Enormous Cosmic Possibilities, Itty Bitty Setting - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

A second disappointment from another debut author. - History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund

Sigh, ok Margaret Atwood - Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood

Apparently there are boring sociopaths - Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas

I don’t agree with the Amazon reviews… - The Devourers by Indra Das

THE CASE OF THE MISSING NUN WHO WAS KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED (except obviously not) - The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen

Woman Has Choice Between Man Who Treats Her Badly and a Boring But Nice Guy, Guess Who She Chooses? - The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt

A Dude Born Anew - Learning to Feel by N.R. Walker

Just go watch some DVD commentaries - Joss Whedon: The Biography by Amy Pascale

Sometimes I wonder if I read the same book as everyone else. - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

DC Sniper Case Comes to New York - Apprentice in Death by JD Robb

A future past where you become plant, clone, or cyborg when you die - The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder

Sid is a Jerk - Half-Blook Blues by Esi Edugyan

Not worth the time - Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly

The Kind Worth Reading On a Beach When You’re Kinda Drunk and Not Thinking Too Hard - The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Hustling, hustling - Running by Cara Hoffman

“They claim they did all this because they love me, but I must say, I’ve never been loved in such a bizarre fashion.” - Oh Myyy! by George Takei

Well that was disappointing - The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove #2) by Christopher Moore

Fragmented Story - The Crossing by Michael Connelly

Downward Slide in Series - The Burning Room by Michael Connelly

Neither Romance Nor Comedy - Love Handles by Gretchen Galway

On the Road Again - The Scoundrel and the Debutante by Julia London

A Stephanie Plum plot checklist. - Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich

I Have a Lot of Feelings about “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne

As if I were no more than a possession for these two creatures to fight over. - The Devourers by Indra Das

Lady, what are you hollering? - Taking What I Like: Stories by Linda Bamber

The Failure Narrative - Season Finale by Susanne Daniels and Cynthia Littleton

Faux Big Chill - In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch

A Crown of Bitter Indifference - A Crown of Bitter Orange by Laura Florand

Mostly Charmless - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Neil’s Bride - Lyon's Bride by Cathy Maxwell

Unless you’re obsessed with Scientology (like I am), read ‘Troublemaker’ instead. - Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige, with Dan Koon

Man the French are not funny - The Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert

“The Internet is a place where ideas compete, and bad ideas in particular get shared.” - Oh Myyy!: There Goes The Internet by George Takei

Disappointing. - The Mothers by Brit Bennett

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