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

An amazing but ultimately explicable act of legerdemain? - The Outsider by Stephen King

Lawyering, fast and loose, like old times - The Rooster Bar by John Grisham

Welp, I was warned. - Failure is an option by H. Jon Benjamin

Mismemory or Starting from the Wrong Place - Homeland by R.A. Salvatore

Wily Coyote - Sky Coyote by Kage Baker

Good to meet you, now gimme more. - Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

Lois Pulled a Bait-and-Switch on Me - The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold

Even when it’s about the women, it’s about the men. - Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Limitless Potential But Is It Actually Good to Know About All the Missed Opportunities? - Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore

Screw the Lord, Come for the Lady - Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

I’ve never read this before but I have 100% already read this before - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Can You Rewrite Your History and Change Your Future? - Indexing: Reflections by Seanan McGuire

Heads Will Roll - Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

Do you want to kill yourself? Laura will listen! - The Good Samaritan by John Marrs

The kids are all right - The Darkest Minds Never Fade (A Darkest Minds Novel) by Alexandra Bracken

Ships Ahoy! - The Antlered Ship by Dashka Slater

Skip if you’re more of a SF/Adventure fan, but try if you liked Station Eleven. - Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton

I Got a Little Deja Vu With This One - A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck

Pirates, Forbidden Love and a Quest - The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

Is she talking about me? - Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen

In which my lack of knowledge of Russia may have been a problem - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Because I had teachers and confidence - Because I Had a Teacher by Yamada Kobi

An alternate history I hadn’t seen before - Underground Airlines by Ben. H. Winters

Liking a book becomes relative - Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

Who Draws The Line Between Villain and Hero - Vicious by V.E. Schwab

That a tagged planet is not colonizable but means only bearable gravity, a decent temperature range, and air that won’t kill you. That survey teams sample only one square kilometer of a planet, doubtless not this one. - We Who are About to... by Joanna Russ

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world - My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather

A Mostly Average Riordan Novel - The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

The Dangers and Power of Legend - When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris

Her? - Where Shadows Dance by C.S. Harris

What a woman!!! - Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Don’t read this book unless you can commit to it. - The Leopard by Jo Nesbo

We’re All Strangers to Each Other - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

The street was made of glass sheeting - The Emissary by Yoko Tawada

Maybe the better book? - Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

“For a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.” - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Lots of mugs, dames, and goons–not so much plot - Noir: A Novel by Christopher Moore

If you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening. - The Whispering Skull, The Hollow Boy, The Creeping Shadow, The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

The fantasy is a lie - The Pisces by Melissa Broder

I enjoyed it but have a hard time not complaining about problems - The Nine: Thieves of Fate 1 by Tracy Townsend

That Escalated Quickly - Injustice: Gods Among Us Vol. 1 by Tom Taylor

Silent Girls Can’t Tell Who Killed Them - The Silent Girls by Eric Rickstad

That’s Better! - Game Play by Lynda Aicher

A non fiction Wonder - Ugly by Robert Hoge

Read the Book, too! - Read the Book, Lemmings! by Ame Dyckman

I feel like I’m okay with this ending - In The Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken

Don’t throw stones at the neighbors if your house is made of glass - The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth

I did like the bit where Theresa discovers how to make “magic elf-bread” - Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan

An eyesore, a disgrace: tar-paper shanty with old rusty pieces of tin nailed up any which way. - With Shuddering Fall by Joyce Carol Oates

A firewoman, a horse named Trixie Skillz and the literal embodiment of Pestilence ride across post-apocalyptic North America - Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

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