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

I still love Flavia, but I don’t know if that’s enough anymore. - The Grave is a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9) by Alan Bradley

“love takes you / where you need to go” - Invisible Strings by Jim Moore

Slight second album syndrome - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Nothing here is real, nothing here is right. - The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

I’m afraid that once your heart’s involved, it all comes out in moron. - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

Margaret Atwood gets weird, y’all - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Scientist Duke - The English Duke by Karen Ranney

No yeah it’s what you think it is - Beartown by Fredrik Backman

But Is It a Book I’ll Remember? - A Duke to Remember by Kelly Bowen

The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances. - Days of Wrath by Andre Malraux

My break up letter to Janet Evanovich - Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton

Dirk Gently Is at It Again . . . Sort of - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

Truth is More Important than Modesty - Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

Gambling to secure a future, winning a duke - My Once and Future Duke by Caroline Linden

The weirdest afterschool special I’ve never seen - Un Lun Dun by China Miéville

A Side Quest, If You Will - Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson

Tis a Disappointment - Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

She Was Mostly Immensely Relieved to Think That Virtually Everything That Anybody Had Ever Told Her Was Wrong - Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh

Thoughtful content, less thoughtful structure - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

I’m a Poor Person, Get Me Out of Here! - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Naledi does not have time for knock off Nigerian email scams. - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole

There may be more melodrama here than I have the patience with - Fire Falling by Elise Kova

Librarian heroine with latent magical powers. Dark, broody sorcerer prince as the possible love interest. I can work with that. - Air Awakens by Elise Kova

Might Work, But I Probably Won’t Do It - Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Would have liked a lot more Holmes in this one. - The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Didn’t like as much as Part One. - The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Two by Michael Dante DiMartino

“I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, ‘I might be wrong.” - A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2) by Louise Penny

An interesting premise, a generic execution. - Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Alli Reviews “The Lonely Hearts Hotel” - The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill

Well now that is some fucked up shit - Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #8 - The World America Made by Robert Kagan

Sally’s Ride - Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr

Lemme get a hit of that eugenides - Fresh complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides

Oh, Lisa Kleypas, I keep hoping… - Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

A Return Trip to the South of France and its Flower Fields - A Wish Upon Jasmine (La Vie en Roses #2) by Laura Florand

Would have been a lot more enjoyable if the heroine had gone to therapy at some point - Buns by Alice Clayton

I wish I had a sköldpadda of my very own. - Song of Susannah by Stephen King

I confess I’m addicted to stationery. . . - Adventures in Stationery by James Ward

“There’s not a choice…you just have to.” - Batman Vol. 1: I Am Gotham by Tom King

One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. - Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch

Tartting up Rick Riordan and Castle - The Immortals by Jordanna Max Brodsky

There’s a formula to it. A very simple formula! EVERYBODY’S A SUSPECT! - Final Girls by Riley Sager

Maybe Your Lovely Wife Should Have Written This Book Instead? - My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir by Mark Lukach

Do you know what broccoli is like to your body? It is like a hundred-dollar bill. When you eat it, you are paying yourself with health. Do you know what a cookie is like? It is Monopoly money! You’re giving your body fraudulent currency. - Made for Love by Alissa Nutting

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own. - The Wedding by Dorothy West

Patent Wars - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

Magic’s all balderdash and chicanery. I’m afraid we don’t know a bloody thing. Except I seem to be British, don’t I? - Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews

A Way Too Heavy and Analytical Take on A Light Sci-Fi Novel - We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis Taylor

A True Crime Book and a Husband’s Tribute - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Liked it better the first time I read it - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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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
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    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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