Cannonball Read 17

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

Sci-Fi retelling of the Cinderella tale - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

There’s a shortage of perfect movies in the world. . . - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

A Tender Apocalypse - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Huzzah! Books, my favorite! - The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” - Paper Towns by John Green

Book Exchange Bounty! - The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su

Can you tell me how to get to the end of this race? - Another Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone

The Wondrous Woo - The Wondrous Woo by Carrianne Leung

The new king of the dads has risen. - Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

A highly fascinating and VERY funny journey - Gulp. Adventures On The Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Engrossing and then terrifying - Revival by Stephen King

Still a masterpiece, 28 years on - It by Stephen King

Finches, Barnacles, and Worms, Or Darwin’s Other Books - Charles and Emma: the Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

Sometimes being kidnapped might be the best thing to ever happen to a young woman - The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

What It’s Like to Forget - Still Alice by Lisa Genova

OMG Awesomesauce! CBR Book Exchange - Clariel, The Lost Abhorsen by Garth Nix

Sudden Death Is a Normal Way of Life on Spatterjay… - The Skinner by Neal Asher

Bunnybean & Joemyjoe’s Book Exchange Jackpot! - A pile of literary goodness by Alexis

An Oldie But Goodie…Vampire Tale - Blood Price by Tanya Huff

She’s a brick house. She’s mighty mighty and letting it all hang out to frighten you. - House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

Book 52 – What Matters in the End - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Cowabunga–Cannonball Achieved! - Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Yes Please by Amy Poehler - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King - Doctor Sleep (The Shining #2) by Stephen King

Best Book I’ve Read This Year - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The Best War Reporting I’ve Encountered - War by Sebastian Junger

Sore Thumb (Part 2) - The Narrative of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Doulgass

More Fairyland, Please! - The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne Valente

The Good Death - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Who You Gonna Call? Dr. Warthrop!! - The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

“Our youth is wasted, We will not waste it…” - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

A true story of the cost of native american assimilation in colonial America - Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

I want to be friends with Amy Poehler - Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

I’m back? - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

A nostalgic visit to my early teens - The Outsiders by Susan E Hinton

Amy Poehler makes it a Double Cannonball - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

George Eliot is a Ravenclaw. For Realz. - Middlemarch by George Eliot

An excellent continuation of the new Doctor Who comics series - Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #2 and The Eleventh Doctor #2 by Nick Abadzis, Al Ewing

An insightful take on the American Dream - The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

Loving this memoir means loving the most difficult parts of one’s self - Excavation: A Memoir by Wendy C. Ortiz

Such outstanding first issues that I am already itching for the collected volume - Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #1 and The Eleventh Doctor #1 by Nick Abadzis, Al Ewing, Robert Williams

A diverse, impressive world for the middle-grade and adult reader - Game World by C.J. Farley

And Then I Noticed Myself Saying, “Okay. This Looks Bad.” at my Own Shenanigans - Hawkeye, vol. 3: L.A. Woman by Matt Fraction

It’s Frankenstein’s Monster! Hunting Other Monsters! - Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia

The wise old economist speaks - The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen

A lovely, 5-star surprise to finish out this year’s Cannonball. - The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

Nick Offerman is just like Ron Swanson in all the right ways. - Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

These Horses Could Eat Misty of Chincoteague for Breakfast. Literally. - The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) by Ken Follett - Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) by Ken Follett

Jane Austen meets Gosford Park and Downton Abbey - Longbourn by Jo Baker

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