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

–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

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

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