Cannonball Read 17

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

“You have epiphanies all the time. They just don’t have any effect.” - Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

The Hottest Old Curmudgeon in Town - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

The B plot is much stronger then the A plot, and that’s ok - Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong

Growing up in war – a surprisingly delightful read! - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

Breaking up is hard to do - My American Duchess by Eloisa James

“My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.” - Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda

Suburbia, but with magic. - Omens by Kelley Armstrong

Poison First, Ask Questions Later, or Maybe Not - Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

My English Class Book Report Turned Book Review (Sorry Not Sorry) - Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson

“It is good to renew one’s wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.” - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

There’s Beauty in the Ordinary - Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

It’s Another One of My Art Therapy Books, and I Don’t Have a Clever Title - Introduction to Art Therapy: Faith in the Product by Bruce Moon

Five minutes looking in his eyes, we all knew he was broken pretty bad - The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

I’m trying to write positive reviews, I promise! - The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child

Let’s Give It Up For America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman! - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

The Fastest Man Alive - The Flash: Vol 1 & 2: Move Forward and Rogues Revolution by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato

Slow Medicine - God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet

Insert fart joke here - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Her song would continue to haunt him for the rest of his days - Into Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason

Single White, Really White, Female - Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

There Are a Lot of Cadillacs in this Desert - The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

I should have more faith in my fellow Cannonballers - Act Like It by Lucy Parker

Cold Hearted Duke - More Than a Mistress by Mary Balogh

“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.” - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

J.K. Rowling is a goddess - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

If the Ghostbusters worked for the FBI - Harmony Black by Craig Schaefer

Science vs. Magic: Can’t We All Just Get Along? - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

A YA fantasy centering on a strong female friendship. - Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1) by Susan Dennard

Lord of the Flies meets American Psycho meets The Rum Diaries with just a dash of Seven Psychopaths - The Beach by Alex Garland

When in doubt, assume it’s about politics - Heavy Words Lightly Thrown by Chris Roberts

Vonnegut’s little war book. - Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Not the Destination but the Journey - The Martian by Andy Weir

A Delightful Regency Fantasy Novel - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Genre Mix and Match - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Trashy romance, but good - Unveiled by Courtney Milan

The opposite of slut-shaming - The Shameless Hour by Sarina Bowen

Sweet, sweet baby sleep. - The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep by Harvey Karp

An Odd Couple in Calcutta - The Strangler Vine by M. J. Carter

The Colt 45 of Space Comics - Lando by Charles Soule, Alex Maleev

A college romance with hockey and healthy servings of angst - The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen

Children of the Corn - The Harvest by Chuck Wendig

So Many Religious Puns… - The Wicked and the Divine: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie

A woman like me in at least one way - I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman

One of my favorite duos in literature - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith a/k/a J.K. Rowling

Not the brightest point in American history - The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

The Inception of books (have a totem handy). - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

If you have sex, you will get pregnant and you will die - Madame Bovary and Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Hardy

I’m a bad feminist! And you can be too! - Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Area X and its “poisonous” snakes (eye twitch) - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Possible Precursor to The Human Centipede? - Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo

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