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

A pretty depressing bingo - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Be a Jukebox Hero, Got Stars in His Eyes - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

Taking a “Dark Take” on a Children’s Classic to the Extreme - Alice by Christina Henry

Faeries and Courts and Sirens – A Familiar Story Competently Written - Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

Midterm election are Tuesday, November 6th - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

Some good ideas, but the execution could use some work - The Portal & The Experiment: Two Novellas of Suspense by Lynn L. Clark

Pandora isn’t the only one with box troubles - Ginny Goblin Is Not Allowed to Open This Box by David Goodner

Didn’t live up to this Janeite’s expectations. - Austenland (Austenland, #1) by Shannon Hale

Does the boogeyman have boogers? - Does Frankenstein Get Hungry? by John Solimine

I would have done it, too, if it weren’t for… - Meddling Kids: A Novel by Edgar Cantero

Some Ghouls Do - Stumpkin by Lucy Ruth Cummin

Everything okay, even the Armadillo - But Not the Armadillo by Sandra Boynton

Don’t judge a book by it’s wall - The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee

Accessible doesn’t mean bad - milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

Don’t Eat Me, Chupacabra!!!! I’m not a good snack - Don’t Eat Me, Chupacabra by Kyle and Derek Sullivan

Not as good as book one, but still worth reading. - P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2) by Jenny Han

Not in my Wheelhouse. Or beach house for that matter - Here’s to Us by Elin Hilderbrand

My cat didn’t really want the extra cuddles this book made me give him - We3 by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely

Jack was in charge - Snap by Belinda Bauer

Forget It, Juniper, It’s Racism - Follow Her Home by Steph Cha

Goodfellas meets The Social Network by way of Ayn Rand - American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

Blackout! One case where I prefer the literary criticism to the actual novel - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Not What I Was Expecting – Hollywood, Paris, the American South, and Two Scotsmen - Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

If You Could Go Anywhere, Any When … - The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

Life is just a bowl of (sour) cherries - Refuge by Dina Nayeri

Put on your bow tie and pull up a comfy chair and get ready to read - Giraffe Problems by Jory John

A Starting Point for Christian Mysticism - The Way of the Mystics: Ancient Wisdom for Experiencing God Today by John Michael Talbot, Steve Rabey

Boring and Almost Normalizing (CBR10 BINGO) - Fear by Bob Woodward

A Visit to My Childhood (BINGO!) - All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Entertaining thriller; leaned into all the wrong parts. #CBRBingo (3rd Bingo!) - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

A buddy review with my dear friend Alison, who is a great writer but doesn’t write very much, which makes me sad. #CBRBingo (2nd Bingo!) - The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir by Elna Baker

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

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  • drmllz
    on “I’d looked into the face of death. I’d mistaken him for a friend.”
    The apartment is highly aspirational for sure. Great review!
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    on Dungeon Crawler Carl
    I hate to break it to you, but there are mentions of rape in at least the first book, including...
  • Tracy
    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    I love your Gatsby one. I'm not good at these but I'll give it a try. Legends & Lattes: green...
  • Tracy
    on “Maybe that was what kept them alive. Not magic, not muscle, but catching each other when the world tried to drop them.”
    Fully agree about Angel.
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    on CBR Diversion – Describe a Book Badly!
    Murderbot: a robot realizes it’d rather binge TV than murder everyone.... and nobody will leave them alone so they can........
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