Cannonball Read 17

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

Elin’s gotta get better names - The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand

Not With a Bang but a Whimper - Make Me by Lee Child

The title of this book has nothing to do with the story. Nothing, - Heat Wave by Jill Marie Landis

Buy a cookbook, people. It’s not that hard. - The Undomestic Goddess by Sophia Kinsella

This was a terrible book. - Superman: Grounded, Vol. 2 by J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson

Misery Porn at its worst. - Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Another disappointing theological read. - Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White

Like the Salesman Who Keeps Talking, But You’ve Already Moved On - The Leader in Me by Stephen Covey & Sean Covey

Wherein I disagree with every single other Cannonballer who has reviewed this book - Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Unsinkable doesn’t quite stay afloat - Unsinkable: A Memoir by Silken Laumann

Frienemies until the end - The Best of Enemies by Jen Lancaster

Small Victories: At Least They Aren’t Wearing Heels Most of the Time - Birds of Prey, #1 by Chuck Dixon, Jordan B. Gorfinckle, Gary Frank, Matt Haley

Officially Tossed From the Fan Club - Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews

Well, I did like the elephant, at least - The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation #1) by Vaseem Khan

A dream turned into a tedious nightmare - The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg

Victorian Maudlin at Its Best - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Captive - Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid: the Tayna Nicole Kach story by Tayna Nicole Kach with Lawrence Fisher

Flames…on the side of my face… - Her by Harriet Lane

Book Meh of the Meh-lands Series - Hidden by Megg Jensen

Post-apocalypse with a political agenda - One Second After by William R. Forstchen

No, None of This is What I Wanted - Black Widower by Patricia Moyes

Perhaps Vowell isn’t for Me - the Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

That review where I hand in my CBR card… - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

500 pages of fan fiction - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Not That Matthew Lewis - The Monk by Matthew Lewis

A Spark that Didn’t Catch Fire - Border Crossing by Pat Barker

The saddest homage to Jane Eyre ever. - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Opus 63 (actually 65) in three parts: Hop, Joker and High - Fire Inside, Ride Steady, and Walk Through Fire (books 2-4 of the Chaos Series) by Kristen Ashley

Five stars for Kamala; two for this particular book. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona

Halbs Reads His First Romance Novel - Random Acts of Crazy by Julia Jent

Celebrating Someone Else’s Cannonball - The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and two not so great ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller

The Hundred Thousand Meh’s - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin

Red Sky At Night, Something Something This Is All Bulls–t - Crimson Shore by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Views from a passing train - 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

Revenge of the Sith - Revenge of the Sith by Patricia C. Wrede

In Sherlock’s Shadow - Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas

A Collection of Misses with a Small Patch of Light in the Middle - No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Frommage, Formaggio, Ost, Syr, Kase - Foreign Affairs by Stuart Woods

I’m The Firestarter, The Twisted Firestarter - Invisible by James Patterson and David Ellis

Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away - Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Books I Read With My Kid - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Junior Novelization) by Patricia C. Wrede

Caitlin D — don’t read this one - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Great premise, poor follow through - Endangered by Lamar Giles

Wouldn’t Even Use This as Litter for my Vampire Cat - Bite Me by Christopher Moore

The Star Wars, Like The Facebook and The Netflix - The Star Wars by JW Winzler, Mike Mayhew

We’re all a little special - I'm Special: and other lies we tell ourselves by Ryan O'Connell

Catherine is great, this book is not. - Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie

I Only Need One Reason Why This Wasn’t Great - Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi

Okay, I Just Have to Admit It, I Hate Magical Realism - Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

Just Go Rewatch True Detective - Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

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