Cannonball Read 17

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

There May Be No Supernatural Shenanigans, but That Doesn’t Make the Real History Less Engrossing. - Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin

Cannonball! And Blackout Bingo! - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

The book that made me like my name - Matilda by Roald Dahl

Still One of the Best Horror Books of All Time - The Shining by Stephen King

…to wound the autumnal city. - Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany

So many feels – CBR10Bingo: So Popular! *Bingo* - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Book Was Better (but the film was still excellent) - Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Fade to blackout - The End of All Things by John Scalzi

A Poet Personification of the Wind - What Color is the Wind? by Anne Herbauts

The Importance of Taking Chances - What Do You Do With a Chance? by Kobi Yamada

I mean, it WAS - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Childhood favorite - Stonewords: A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad

No, really, it’s a comedy - Tick Tock by Dean Koontz

I’m not sure I’d do better, and I used to be a teen girl - Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi

Do Every Stupid Thing that Makes You Feel Alive - Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy: The Wreath; The Wife; The Cross by Sigrid Undset

Hug Your Secret Service Agent - Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

This is the version of this story that I was looking for - Dating You/ Hating You by Christina Lauren

Ms. Marvel Returns and WHY AREN’T YOU READING THIS? - Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson and Nico Leon

Do all monsters need to be killed? - Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

A warm cozy blanket of a book - Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

My favorite Scalzi so far - The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

Octothorp and the restoration of memory - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Gabbie Hanna brings twists and turns to adulthood - Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna

Like Sam the Butcher, bringing Alice the meat. Like Fred Flintstone, driving around with bald feet. - Beastie Boys Book by Adam Horowitz, Michael Diamond

“Father loved the fact that a lilac only blossoms after a harsh winter.” - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

A little hypocrisy for everyone - On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Add Friday Black to your Black Friday shopping list! - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

When a complicated writer finds their audience - Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

Crazy Good: lives up to the crazy hype - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Being 16 is a Lot to Deal With Sometimes - Skim by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

Gonna buy it and reread it - Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Just what I needed - RAFE: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Madness, Illness, Grief, and The Haunting of Hill House - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Discovering the Little Prince - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A lovely fairy tale that came at just the right time - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

Fahrenheit 666, or how I learned to start worrying and love the resistance - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Y’all…. This one’s gonna be a bit different - There is No Good Card for This; When Life Hits the Fan; TIny Beautiful Things; 180 more Extraordinary Poems for Every Day; the sun and her flowers; The Art of Comforting; Rising Strong; How to Be a Heroine; Raising Human Beings by Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell; Janet Fouts; Cheryl Strayed; Billy Collins; Rupi Kaur; Val Walker; Brene Brown, Samantha Ellis; Ross Greene

Everything I knew I always wanted - The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Triple bingo! - The Kid by Dan Savage

Simply Adorable - Kenny and the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizza

This Book Will Fill You With Rage - We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by Jose Andres with Richard Wolffe

When white women cry, people die - The Mere Wife: A Novel by Maria Dahvana Headley

Not giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car’s heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you’re headed. - Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Get ready for a rollercoaster of emotions! - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

A fabulous mystery! - The Girl in Keller's Way by Megan Goldin

The Ballad of the Reluctant Hero - The Song of Achilles: A Novel by Madeline Miller

Life is Simple, Except When it Isn’t. - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Don’t let this happen. Go out and vote! - 1984 by George Orwell

Another YA takedown of rape culture - The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

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