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

Wisecracks in 1930s New York City - The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

Party On, Princess! - Puppy Princess #1 Party Time by Patty Furlington

Passion Play - Testimony by Robbie Robertson

That’s a “meh” from me - Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

Not the best, but not the worst either - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams

Parts of this made me angry - Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Finally reading a book I was given for book exchange! - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Flying - The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar by Margarita Engle

The Damage We are Capable to Doing to Ourselves While We Are Already in Pain - The Art of Starving by Sam J Miller

She corrupted him from beyond the grave - Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

I don’t want to review this book - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

What do you do with a book like Captain Starfish? - Captain Starfish by Davina Bell

Just Add Glitter and The Fun Happens - Just Add Glitter by Angela Diterlizzi

A fun adaptation of a classic book that never quite clicked for me. - Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

Two more Joe Dillard books! - Blood Money (Joe Dillard Series Book 6) AND A Crime of Passion (Joe Dillard Series Book 7) by Scott Pratt

Dust for Dinner and A Family - Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner

A Tamer Lucifer than Tom Ellis - Kill the Dead by Richard Kadrey

Sex and skullduggery - The Queen's Bastard by C.E. Murphy

He Would Name His Parrot After Captain Flint, Wouldn’t He? - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

When the author outshines her subject… - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Not What I Was Expecting, But Still Interesting - Consequences by E.M. Delafield

My Papa is a Princess and So much More - My Papa is a Princess by Doug Cenko

“Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping” - Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Fractal and fractured - Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia millet

Spoiled by its ending - A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozieki

Hungry like the wolf - Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire

The book club-iest of book club books - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

The confluence of stupidity and evil incarnate - The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi

This is a fake book by a fictional character, which I don’t completely understand, but I’m totally on board. - Marriage Vacation by Pauline Turner Brooks

Stuck in the Middle with …. Wednesday - Whale in a Fishbowl by Troy Howell

In which I travel to the Old Republic - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Vol. 1: Commencement by John Jackson Miller (Writer), Travis Charest (Artist), Michael Atiyeh (Artist), Brian Ching (Artist), Travel Foreman (Artist)

There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude. - Fine Just the Way it is by Annie Proulx

Well, That’s Done - All These Worlds by Dennis Taylor

That’s One Way to Wake Up and Smell the Roses - That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran

They do it because they can - The Power by Naomi Alderman

Random Pennyroyal Green Selection - It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

A surface read, but an enjoyable one - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

Yes, this is only my third book of the year…but in an alternate life it’s my 31st - Version Control by Dexter Palmer

52: My dive into the pool involved a book that was just okay. - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don’t. And if you do, you can’t be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don’t, you never will again. - In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

Jack Reacher Gets Schooled - Night School by Lee Child

We’re all just a mess - Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

It’s a Fine Line Between Transformative and Toxic - Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett

Shaft! He’s one sad motha%@#*( - Shaft: Imitation of LIfe by David F. Walker

I Quit Facebook This Week (Sort Of) - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

Avatar + Arabian Nights - The Hundredth Queen by Emily R. King

Just a Couple of Guys Being Bros - Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

Interested in time travel? Not like this. - Kindred by Octavia Butler

does he have a horse? is that what this is about? does he have a sword gun or a railroad or a ..a nice hat or something? - Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

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