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

I have no catchy title - Contagion by Erin Bowman

Still has exciting steampunk aerial combat but doesn’t recapture the joy of the first book - Arabella the Traitor of Mars: The Adventures of Arabella Ashby by David D. Levine

Did his nose twitch? - The Little Rabbi by Nicola Killen

Some wrinkles - Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen

A Little Bit of a Fleeting Feeling - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

“There is so much gray between the black and the white and this is where most of us live, trying, but so often failing, to bend towards the light.” - The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

“A curtain was drawn back in every man’s inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work.” - Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

None of these are turning out quite right - Edward's Menagerie by Kerry Lord

Creepy People Gonna Creep…and a Girl is Gonna Disappear - I am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll

The Falling in Love was Lovely - When a Duchess Says I Do by Grace Burrowes

Undiagnosed Mental Illness Will Wreck Your Life - Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

The Continuing Saga of Castle Rock - Elevation by Stephen King

How did I do as a low wage worker? - Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Remind me never to go back in time - Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott

Alice doesn’t live here anymore - Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison

You are getting very, very sleepy - The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. - The White Book by Han Kang

Rose watched his movements. - The African Queen by C.S. Forester

Wash the glasses with your own water to save your master’s salt. - Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift

Psycho Killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est? - In the Woods by Tana French

Decent, but a little dry - Downbelow Station (The Company Wars #1) by C.J. Cherryh

If you don’t like the cold snow, try this warm treat - When the Snow Falls by Linda Booth Sweeney

Here a skull, there a skull, everywhere a skull-skull…. - SKULLS! by Blair Thornburgh

I do not feel each letter any more than you see each letter as you see and read. - Story of My Life by Helen Keller

“It’s impossible to know if we were a good thing that broke somehow or a bad thing that eventually became exposed. “ - Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

Notorious Pleasures is the title, not the reading experience - Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

I would hire Arthur Dogger & Associates. - The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10) by Alan Bradley

Where my Enneagram nerds at? - The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz

Sir Condy Rackrent, by the grace of God heir-at-law to the Castle Rackrent estate, was a remote branch of the family. - Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

Sister… or brother… Act - Little Owl’s Egg by Debi Glori

Two street musicians enter the pawn shop - The Posey Ring: A Love Story by Bob Graham

Flying - Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

“You’re a superhero. Deal with it.” - The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten

Truth Be Told I Don’t Know How to Review Poetry… - Selected Poems by John Keats

Yeah I’m gonna do it - Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

” I was an immigrant. And no matter how Americanized I become, no matter how much Jay-Z I listen to, I’ll always be an immigrant” - How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents by Jimmy O. Yang

The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience. - Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

Just when you thought cancer couldn’t suck any more than it already does - The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Barbara K. Lipska with Elaine McArdle

Our House, in the Middle of our Heath - The Likeness by Tana French

Not Every Essay Resonated - Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Lost in Translation to Graphic - Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer, Giovanni Rigano, Paolo Lamanna

This spring came the third flood - A Story of the Red Cross by Clara Barton

Do it for the photo, for the art, for the creativity–but never for the likes. - Hashtag Authentic: Finding creativity and building community on Instagram and beyond by Sara Tasker

But it’s different with a woman. Her work in the house is to keep not to get. - The Devil's Pool by George Sand

Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and write the damned review - Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

See Into the Beast - The Beast's Heart by Leife Shallcross

Not as Good as Christie - And Death Came Too by Richard Hull

Presidential…or How to Not Be like Donald Trump - Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Curiouser & Curiouser - A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

Twitter Can Be Fun - Destiny's Surrender by Beverly Jenkins

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