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

Everyone wants to be Malcolm Gladwell - Contagious by Jonah Berger

Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert (Maybe) - Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert by Morag Hood

Not what I was expecting - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

How Peculiar - Hollow City and Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

A Half Angel Rules Hell and Lucifer gets to Heaven - Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey

Define Skeeve - Myth Adventures One by Robert Asprin

Grateful to never again be a teenager - Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she’s never been told about - The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich

How not to be a detective - A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

Run Wild with this book! - Run Wild by David Covell.

The Reward For a Job Well Done Is More Work - The Prophecy Con by Patrick Weekes

Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation - Players by Don Delillo

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. - Weight by Jeanette Winterson

49: An okay VR novel - Arena by Holly Jennings

47: An okay emergent YA novel from a great talent. - When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

46: An uneven and somewhat disappointing debut - The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

44: A mixed bag of essays - What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson

38: Another case of “I liked the movie better.” - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

36: I honestly liked the movie (but not Armie Hammer) better - Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman

Not your parent’s sheep meets wolf story - Baabwaa and Wooliam: A Tale of Literacy, Dental Hygiene, and Friendship by David Elliott

I’m a sucker for books set here - That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

Vacation Time - Goldfish on Vacation by Sally Lloyd-Jones

I’ll tell you, but you’ll never understand. You’re on the wrong side of the dark glass. Only the dead know how terrible it is to be alive - The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

If you must wear someone, you could do a lot worse than Deadpool - Deadpool: Back in Black by Cullen Bunn, Salva Espin

I can see why people love this, but I didn’t. - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The smuggler and the war hero – a marriage of convenience - Counting on the Countess by Eva Leigh

look this white guy read Macbeth once and it’s really important that you should know that even if you don’t even open his stupid book. - The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

A couple of feel good stories - Someday, Narwhal by Lisa Mantche

William Gibson, poet of cacaphony - Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl #2,3) by William Gibson

Fractured Fairytale - Disenchanted by Heide Goody and Iain Grant

You’ll want to take notes - 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

Right Now I’m going to tell you about a book I read…… - Right Now by Jessica Olien

For those who love Paris - Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan

Ice and blood and family secrets - The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg

More Expanse Side Plot - The Vital Abyss (The Expanse 5.5) by James S.A. Corey

Witches, Ghosts, and Policemen. oh my! - Haunting Charlie: Witches of Palmetto Point by Wendy Wang

Penguins Don’t Wear Sweaters! - Penguins Don't Wear Sweaters! by Marikka Tamura

Even grim reapers can be unlucky in love - Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson Book 2) by Darynda Jones

It’s the end of the world as we know it - Scourged by Kevin Hearne

Yellow Kayak and some imagination! - Yellow Kayak by Nina Laden

I Blame Christopher Pike - Ten by Gretchen McNeil

A House That Once Was - A House That Once Was by Julie Fogliano

It’s Apocalyptic! - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Llama Llama Loves to Read, Do You? - Llama Llama Loves to Read by Anna Dewdney and Reed Duncan

The Big Umbrella of Love - The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates and Juniper Bates

Love Is Love - Love Is Love by Michael Genhart

Being Special and Rare - Ava and the Rainbow (Who Stayed) by Ged Adamson

Book 1, Take 2 - The Prophecy Con by Patrick Weekes

Just Listening - The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man’s soul, be it even the soul of an idiot. - Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz

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