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

Paper like that could make you a writer, if anything could. - The Golden Spur by Dawn Powell

It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again. - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

To live there was a badge of inferiority. - Catseye by Andre Norton

A mixed bag, but in the end it won me over - Believe Me: a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens by Eddie Izzard

Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence… - Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich; The Tent by Margaret Atwood; Tiny Crimes by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

What is Love? - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Flow was Up and Down and the Beginning Was Boring - Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves

I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody. - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Davenport’s Family is in Danger Again - Stormy Prey by John Sandford

Interesting premise, less interesting execution - Vox by Christina Dalcher

When the Fresh Prince is inspiration for a Fresh Princess - The Fresh Princess, by Denene Millner

If you don’t understand women, don’t make one your main character. - Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

An interesting, new (to me) paranormal series - Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

Rendezvous with a classic SF novel - Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

I can’t believe how many of these things I’ve said to my kids - Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings

It’s a crab! It’s a submarine! It’s SUPER NARWHAL! - Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt (A Narwhal and Jelly Book #2 by Ben Clanton

Puts the “young” in Young Adult - Girls With Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young

Sundown is near, but the Passover plate is not here! - Pippa’s Passover Plate by Vivian Kirkfield

The man, the myth, the legend - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Goth aliens call them ‘stop-stop dancers’ instead of go-go dancers - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Eating By Yourself Can Be Cool - Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One by Anita Lo

Rainbow Rowell may have ruined me, but I’m not mad - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Thank You, Next: Throne of Glass - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

True Story of Two Little Girls - Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

When a piece of history tries to make peace - Tails from History: A Puppy for Helen Keller by May Nakamura

Dream Big Dreams - Prince on Paper: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole

If ever there was a book that I needed to talk to someone about, this would be it - Blue Hours by Daphne Kalotay

Not Quite as Light as I Was Hoping For - One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

I think I just wanted this to be a novel. - Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Reluctant Royals, #2.5) by Alyssa Cole

“I have to pee, let me be!” - Jacob’s Room to Choose by Sarah Hoffman

“Animals were hiding behind the rock, except the little fish” - The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

I guess it shouldn’t have been surprising - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

Down the Rabbit Hole - Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane

Charming Kid’s Adventure - The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Westover

Proud to be a Book Hog! - The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli

She’s trying her damnedest not to cry, but it’s hard. - Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan

Goodbye Town I’m Movin’ Along - Mable and Same at Home by Linda Urban

Envision that Circumcision and Feel that Eel - Under the Knife by Arnold van der Laar

Not Needed for Series - Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe

When You’re Rooting for the Grandmother and Hero to Get Together Something Has Gone Wrong… - Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts

Too Many POVs that Added Nothing - What Happened to Us? by Faith Hogan

I Love My Girlfriends - Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer

When you read the account of a murder – or, say, a fiction story based on murder – you usually begin with the murder itself. That’s all wrong. - Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

Go wash your mouth out - Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang by Max Decharne

Stay up all night reading about The Nocturnals! - The Chestnut Challenge by Tracey Hecht

Sophomore Slump? - 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

I felt like I could see the wizard behind the curtain, pulling the strings - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Four Voices, but Two Left Out, Fifth Unknown - Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

The Title Says it All. - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Fish Boy . . . .Fish Man - Aquaman Vol 1: The Drowning by Dan Abnett

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  • esmemoria
    on Painfully Unfunny
    You got that right!
  • BlackRaven
    on Painfully Unfunny
    Sounds like this book was 167 pages too long
  • BlackRaven
    on The Joke’s On You
    Sounds like The Stench was all the title needed
  • esmemoria
    on The Joke’s On You
    Practically every sentence is a joke omg, I recently finished a book like this. Hated it.
  • esmemoria
    on Eat the Rich
    and the recognition that love isn’t going to cure trauma This is a perspective that is unusual to find. Sounds...
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