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

Hello, Charlie! - Astonishing X-Men - Life of X (Volume 1) by Charles Soule

Christmas in Paris - A Maigret Christmas and Other Stories by Georges Simenon

In your Easter Basket! - How to Track an Easter Bunny by Sue Fliess; E Is for Easter by Greg Paprocki

Heavy Vinyl – not so heavy on plot but still fun! - Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva, Irene Flores

As the illustrations grow crowded friendship grows too - The Song of Spring by Hendrik Jonas

I pictured you both asleep, and told myself I was being irrational. - American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

The first three books of the Lunar Chronicles - Cinder (Book 1) by Marissa Meyer; Scarlet (Book 2) by Marissa Meyer; Fairest (Book 3.5) by Marissa Meyer

I so wanted to love this. Alas, it was not to be. - 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

No bed of roses - The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

…despite their confusion about who did what to the pumpkin - Alger Hiss and the Battle for History by Alger Hiss

The telepathic dog is still the best part. - Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #2) by Kevin Hearne

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable. - Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman; In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman

A headlesss classic AND (totally unrelatedly) a short story about an attempted suicide - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; The Day I Died by E. B. Black

She fell in love with the islands first - The Tenth Island by Diana Marcum

Reviewing this makes ME feel like an alien. - Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

She just wanted to afford a vet visit for her cat! - Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel

I read a thing. - Storm World by BV Larson

The Scene Ends Badly, as You Might Imagine - Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

She didn’t plan on going back into the Patapsco anytime soon. - Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman; Charm City by Laura Lippman

–He used up two rolls of toilet paper, Liam told us. - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

This one didn’t work for me - Pipe Dreams by Sarina Bowen

Unfortunately an ultimately forgettable romp - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee

If hitting a woman was the only way my mother would get help, then that was that. - Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons

Yeah, but moments are ephemeral - The Power of Moments by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Am I a Dunce? - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Doctor Who twist on classic fairy tales - Time Lord Fairy Tales by Justin Richards and David Wardle

Beautiful writing, a little too much religion - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Here I wake up because the pregnant woman is touching my face with her fingers. - Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel

TORNADO WARNING - Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman

Maud chuckled proudly and Erich shouted, “Welcome back from the Void, Kamerad” - Big Time by Fritz Leiber

Also I just watched Girls Trip for the first time and it was pretty great. - The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

When Opposites Attract… - Portrait of a Marriage by Pearl S. Buck

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. - In a Free State by VS Naipaul

Not the Best Monroe Book I Have Read - Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe

Clunky and Unrealistic - Phantom Prey by John Sandford

Very Much The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Before Turning Into Another Book - The Woman in Our House by Andrew Hart

It’s official: I ain’t got no cooth - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Go Crazy? Don’t Mind if I Do - The Shining by Stephen King

Fables on the Run - Fox 8 by George Saunders

Hey Diddle Diddle the Dog and the Fiddle & the Bear played the Piano - The Bear, the Piano, the Dog, and the Fiddle by David Litchfield

When Princess Leia and 45 White Men inspire you to write an art book. - Limitless: 24 Remarkable American Women of Vision, Grit and Guts by Leah Tinari

Thor’s Grand Adventure - Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Nobody calls her Mrs. Tomanovich. She’s Mr. Tomanovich’s wife. Riva’s daughter. Irena Tomanovich’s mother. - Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin

An obstacle which would frighten discreet men is nothing to determined women. - The Wild Goose / Wild Geese by Ogai Mori

Oh, my pie! - The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie

What an awful trail! Did you carry me up here? - Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. - The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Harry is a bad, bad man - Harry Clarke by David Cale

Missed it byyyyy thatmuch - Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley

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