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

Sadly, This Was Not the Book That Made Me Redefine My Wheelhouse - Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler

Interesting concept that didn’t quite scare (CBR10 Bingo, Cover art) - The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

A Balancing Act of Pushing Boundaries That Is Sometimes Successful… Sometimes - Preacher: books 1-6 by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

CBR Bingo (2!): Cannonballer Halbs Says - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

One of the darker takes on the Fae I’ve Read Recently - Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

Intriguing Ideas, Weak Mystery - The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

London’s Own Magician Cop (Bingo #4) - Midnight Riot/Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Life, Messy and Unfiltered - Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

The King Arthur Legend Grounded in Historical Reality - The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

I gave up - Male/Male Romance Series Starter by Annabeth Albert, Sidney Bell, Layla Reyne, and A.R Barley

Long before Team Edward and Team Jacob, there was Team Poirot and Team Marple - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

You’ve Finally Become a Woman Who Runs With the Wolves - Menopause Madness, An Empathic Little Book by Pat Ross

I wanted to laugh more! - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler

If you’ve got trouble - The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch

I intended to read all the Star Trek books….and made it through 12 of my planned 46 - Star Trek novels by various

A Nice, Relaxing Lakehouse Getaway…Just Kidding! - The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

Some Food I Might Want to Eat - Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen

By the stars, we hope - Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

You are bound to find something that speaks to you - Bound by Claire Schwartz

The Blood of an Englishman - The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Elmore, a warmhearted porcupine who’s desperate to make friends….does! - Elmore by Holly Hobbie.

I should have enjoyed this more than I did - Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

Not my favorite Moore, but, serviceable humor: a resounding shrug. - A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

James and the giant meh - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Balogh Gives Us Young Love (CBR10Bingo) - The Arrangement (Survivors Club #2) by Mary Balogh

The girl behind the legend – CBR10 Bingo: Not my wheelhouse - I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick

Drugs and Other Unreliable Narrators - Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

The Book Sensation That’s Sweeping The Nation! - Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Why me? Ugh - Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews

A Sparkling World of Intrigue - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Super by the numbers - The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell

History isn’t something that’s done with, it’s what’s happening right now - Everyday People by Stewart O'Nan

So…I guess I like James Ellroy now? - The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Abundantly tedious - Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Are you Never Satisfied? - Never Satisfied by Dave Horowitz

My Wife and I Could’ve Read Something More Interesting - Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante

CBR Bingo: Listicles - Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Liz and Jimmy Reed have another Sweet Success - Sweet Success by Liz and Jimmy Reed

No tricks just treats here! - Bone Soup A Spooky Tasty Tale and Samurai Scarecrow by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Rubin Pingk

This Book Could Have Been Any Number of Bingo Squares (CBR10Bingo) - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. - The French Lieutenants Woman by John Fowles

Holy freaking crap this was a long book. - The City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

I would bet money that Stephen King has never been to North Carolina - Joyland by Stephen King

Dandelions Grow Strong in the Harshest Conditions - The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

Classical and modern take on love and children in a new picture book - Love You More by Gary Urda

My question is, why is this a kid’s book? - The Berenstain Bears: We Love Soccer! by Mike Berenstain

Stevie Edwards is a poet, editor, and educator: read why that is - Sadness Workshop: Poems by Stevie Edwards

#CBR10 Bingo: Backlog – Outcast - Outcast by Adrienne Kress

Stories About Fish People Are Actually About MORE Than Just Fish People, You Know? - Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz

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