Cannonball Read 17

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

My Stomach Still Feels the Same - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Oh just talk to each other, wont’ you?! - Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Five-Hop One-Stop at the End of the Universe - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Fire Fire Everywhere - The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor

1491 – Charles Mann (2005) - 1491 by Charles Mann

Three reviews for the price of one! - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson; The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson; The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

An interesting read with the story told by the least interesting character - INK WITCH, book one by Lindsay Fairleigh

Studies in Classic American Literature – DH Lawrence (1923) - Studies in Class American Literature by DH Lawrence

Crossroads of Freedom – James M McPherson (2002) - Crossroads of Freedom by James M McPherson

These Dreams of You – Steve Erickson (2012) - These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson

Messy Family Dynamics - Grown Ups by Marian Keyes

“Is Tommy Lee Jones 20 or 100 in this movie?” - Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

When enough is enough – you can’t keep it on the inside anymore. - Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

“We are never feckless”, I told her coldly. “We are full to the brim with feck.” - An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn

Finally getting around to reading this–it’s not nearly as difficult as I thought! - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

enjoyable book made great by an unorthodox ending - The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

“We were salt and sand and sea and storm” - Namesake by Adrienne Young

A retelling of a classic, but are these the right secondary characters to focus on? - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Field Guide to Queendom - How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole

A Soaptastic Ending to a Soaptastic Series - Serving Sin by Angelina M. Lopez

Beauty & Cruelty - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

out of the way, Mr. Hughes. Let the real stars shine. - Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth

FULL of heart and love - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune

A welcome return to form - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

“Because everything is better with you” - Learned Reactions by Jayce Ellis

What do you do with a girl like Afi? - His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie

“What a fool. What a destructive, romantic, ridiculous act. It was always a certain kind of ass who approached love like that”. - Harrow the Ninth: The Locked Tomb trilogy vol. 2 by Tamsyn Muir

Hotel Life - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Book So Nice, He Named It Thrice - New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja

Giant-Sized Fun - Giant Sized X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman

A Good Start - X-Men Volume 1 by Jonathan Hickman

The X-Men are weird again… and good? - House of X - Powers of X Trade Paperback by Jonathan Hickman with Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva

Getting Back in the High Fantasy Game - The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

Why is it so short T-T T-T - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

Abolition, Not Reform - We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

Short, snappy collection of short stories on wuv - Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Avoiding the end but it’s not quite the end - The Unbound Empire by Melissa Caruso

A small part of the immense universe - To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Ask the Opposite - In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy

Great book; awful characters - The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

A SecUnit’s work is never done - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

all ABOARD! - Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi

…but you can’t pick your family. - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

“There is still a real life to be lived, there are still real things to be done.” - No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Slight downer, but nothing serious - Network Effect by Martha Wells

The Vanities Bonfire - The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques

“It feels like I gave up my arms to make way for wings.” - Forever His Champion by Marie Lipscomb

this book has been kicking around for 30ish years and I just picked it up NOW?! - Possession by A.S. Byatt

laughing to keep from crying - We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff

How fast after a book is published is too soon to post a review? - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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