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

I probably wouldn’t have watched the movie, so I don’t know why I read the book. - Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

I love animals, but this wasn’t my favorite - The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

So let me dish you this comedy about a family I knew when I was growing up. - The Ice Storm by Rick Moody; Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody

A satisfying-ish ending to a too-long series - The Sword and Pen by Rachel Caine

Oh, to be a wayward child… - Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire

And so the Lightbringer saga comes to an end (spoiler free review on my thoughts of the series as a whole). - The Burning White: Book Five of the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks

If the best thing is the preview to other stuff… - Lumberjanes The Shape of Friendship by Lilah Sturges

The Packhorse Library - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That I Am Now Really Hungry for Samosas - Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

“We can’t make death fun, but we can make learning about it fun. Death is science and history, art and literature. It bridges every culture and unites the whole of humanity.” - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty

Diary of a wrinkly kid - I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

Sappy, but some interesting history in the background - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Sidewalks of New York - Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison

Have you heard of this author, Margaret Atwood? - Angel Catbird Volume 1 by Margaret Atwood

This could have been so much better. - Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1) by Kendare Blake

Art and Love Everywhere - Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Alice Waters

Sure you have. - Needful Things by Stephen King

The idea of a traitor first became real to the British of our time when they heard the voice of William Joyce on the radio during the war. - The New Meaning of Treason by Rebecca West

The art of saying “NO” - F**k No!: How to stop saying yes, when you can't, you shouldn't, or you just don't want to by Sarah Knight

I’m still thinking through this one - When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

I think I liked Ruby Red but I don’t think it’s a very good book - Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

Parts of Gulp are hard to swallow - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Youths, amiright? - The Distance Between Us by Kasie West ; There's Something About Sweetie (Dimple and Rishi #2) by Sandhya Menon ; Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren

Stolen History - Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

Not dead, just tired - The Tyranny of Dead Ideas by Matt Miller

The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums… - Neon Rain by James Lee Burke

Laurie Garvey hadn’t been raised to believe in the Rapture. - The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta

A change of pace by being straightforward - And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

A great debut–but I was spoiled by his other book. - Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

A Serviceable Mystery - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Love is a many splendored thing - A Book of Love by Emma Randall

Snow Days - Snowy Farm by Calvin Shaw; One Snowy Morning by Kevin Tseng

This should really be titled The Secret History of Wonder Woman’s Creators. - The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

I wish I may…. - The Wish Tree by Kyo Maclear

Not in the way of the ancient greeks, but like a human loves a dog, or a robot loves a human, or occasionally, the way a gorilla loves a kitty - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

A whole lot of Christie short stories - The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Breakfast Tacos and Three Legged Dogs - Jane of Austin by Hillary Manton Lodge

If You Mixed The Andromeda Strain and Pacific Rim, You’d Get This - Cold Storage by David Koepp

Fizzy, Fizzle, Fizz - One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin

Kids ask the darnedest things about decomposing bodies - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty

One Night Stand Fail - A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau

“We never lose those whose stories remain with us.” - Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie, Lisa Wingate

The Force Needs Five More Minutes - Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn

Entertaining enough, but disappointing - Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

TFW you’ve been to Hell and back - Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Welcome to the funhouse - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

When Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her. - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Coming Summer 2020 to a Halloween near you - Frankenstein Doesn't Wear Earmuffs by John Loren

Due mid-April 2020 a new celebrity offering - Escape Goat by Ann Patchett

She got to the parking lot earlier than usual. - Out by Natsuo Kirino

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