Cannonball Read 17

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

Why weren’t the movies based on this? - Zorro: A Novel by Isabel Allende

A Primer on Prayer - Before Amen: The Power of the Simple Prayer by Max Lucado

Where is my mind? - Lock In by John Scalzi

Music Directing: Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start - The Musical Director's Handbook by Stuart Morley

I Think This is the Start of a Beautiful Friendship - Still Life by Louise Penny

In Which I Name Drop My Fellow Cannonballers - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people - Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

Go North, Young Hippie - Drop City by T.C. Boyle

silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

At least it wasn’t Piers Anthony’s Utopia - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer

No-no-Notorious - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

“The darkest minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces” - The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

That is essentially, exactly the way it happened - Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers

A Quietly Lovely Book - Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Still alive - The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

“There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.” - MaddAddam (MaddAddam #3) by Margaret Atwood

Boy versus Monkey - Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls

Clear alcohol is for rich women on diets - Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman

“I had to do something,” she said. “I couldn’t just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.” - To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons #5) by Julia Quinn

The relentless pace continues - Golden Son by Pierce Brown

“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.” - Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Jesus could tell one helluva knock-knock joke. - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

An intriguing Kickstarted graphic novel series - Strong Female Protagonist (Book One) by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag

Is getting that vaccine *really* going to kill you? - On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

“Coen Brothers meet Carl Hiaasen” - Screwed by Eoin Colfer

Mothers and Daughters - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

A historical romance with irrational fears and some unsportsmanlike behaviour - The Viscount Who Loved Me - with 2nd Epilogue by Julia Quinn

Dystopia turned up to eleven - Red Rising by Pierce Brown

“I am not much different now. I have never wanted to grow up and stop playing.” - My Mother was Nuts by Penny Marshall

Into the woods, it’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to though. Into the woods, it’s time, and so I must begin my journey - In The Woods by Tana French

Shapeshifting Graphic Novel Palate Cleanser - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Revisiting one of the first historical romances I read to rediscover my love of the genre - The Duke and I - with 2nd Epilogue by Julia Quinn

Gold heist or murder mystery? - Abandon by Blake Crouch

When the CIA is trying to kill you, you try to kill them back! - A Death in Sweden by Kevin Wignall

George asked her to write a ghost story - The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

I randomly got this book from my neighbor - Blacklands by Belinda Bauer

Lord give me patience - Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

Not another celebrity biography at all - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

If Buffy the Vampire Slayer were written by Raymond Chandler…. - Storm Front by Jim Butcher

I’m Keeping the Interlibrary Loan Librarians Guessing - Bitch Planet: Book One - Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue Deconnick & Valentine De Landro

Sweet and Cozy - Sweet and Salty Treachery by M. E. Harmon

How do you love a racist? - Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr

A lovely romance — what Brooklyn should have been - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

The devil is bathed in blue light, rides a white horse, and is voted into office. - Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

Not Atonement, But Still Great - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A surprise book published without any fanfare whatsoever, because Brandon Sanderson is the Beyoncé of epic fantasy. - Mistborn: Secret History (Mistborn, #3.5) by Brandon Sanderson

Nothing Will Make You Feel Better Except Doing the Work - You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day

a destiny unveiled - The Twelve by Justin Cronin

His Own Heart’s Folly - Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt

A Kissing Book! - Kissing Ted Callahan (And Other Boys) by Amy Spalding

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  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
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