Cannonball Read 17

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

I only had one life, and I’d be damned if I’d live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already. - Joe by Larry Brown

Don’t Mind If I Do - You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want by Sarah Knight

- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison

Yay, I liked this so much! - A Hope Divided (The Loyal League, #2) by Alyssa Cole

Valensteins Gettin’ Some Lovin’ - Valensteins by Ethan Long

She had me at Dolly Parton. - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

A marriage is more than your heart, it’s your life. And we are not sharing ours. - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Ramona Blue & Freddie Floaties - Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis and marriage - Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Sheppard

Self Help that is mostly helpful with a touch of Goop-ness - Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peac, and Joy by Mallika Chopra

“There’s a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.” - A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the few instances where the sequel surpasses the original. - Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) by Neal Shusterman

Another Stephanie Plum book…… - Hardcore 24 by Janet Evanovich

An Aussie comedy - Deadly Kerfuffle by Tony Martin

Sing loud, sing proud - Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music by Tim Falconer

Jerome By Heart - Jerome By Heart by Thomas Scotto

Three Brave and Smart Kids - Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beatty

Laughing in the Face of Pain - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

This Is It - This Is It by Daria Peoples-Riley

Tokens of proof - The Book of Pearl by Timothée de Fombelle

Figure Skaters Finding Love (literally all I needed to know to sell me on it, how about the rest of you?) - From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata

“The wolfes were safe, but there would be blood. Blood for Blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it. Salvation, damnation, salvation, damnation.” - Blood For Blood by Ryan Graudin

Disjointed poetry for a disjointed woman - You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie

Does anyone else wonder if “Will” is Mindy’s babydaddy? - Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling

I sat, I read, I’m happy. - A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Monster Power - Monster Power: Exploring Renewable Energy Magic School Bus Rides Again by Judy Katschke

Wish this hadn’t sat in my TBR so long - The Queen of Blood: Book One of the Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst

A Gilded Age mystery - The English Wife by Lauren Willig

Tobias has an existential crisis. - The Pretender (Animorphs, #23) by K.A. Applegate

What Does “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” Have to Do with Leadership? - Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

Okay, but don’t read this book, it’s not safe. - Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota , #2) by Ada Palmer

Even Better Than The Three Amigos! - Into The Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

Girl vampire meets dangerous demon-fairy sex assassin - Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole

Ostraconophobics Beware - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

I’m always happy to discover a promising new romance author - The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian

It sounded scary at first - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

“Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.” - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love - Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

A book for everyone - Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

11: Behold the Dreamers - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

10: Dark Matter - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Familiar and Funny - Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris

7: The Kalahari Typing School for Men - The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith

6: Morality for Beautiful Girls - Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

“They killed their own just to see time pass.” - The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

1: Eva Luna - Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

On the Importance of Purse Snacks - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Unflinching - The Trespasser by Tana French

Another great CBR recommended romance – historical friends to lovers edition - A Woman Engtangled by Cecelia Grant

Compelling Story – Now I Need to See the Film - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

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