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

Be Afraid to Dream - Final Girls by Mira Grant

A quick sojourn in the world of The Wheel of Time - New Spring (in 'Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy') by Robert Jordan (ed. Robert Silverman)

Gayer than I was expecting and the cat dies - We're Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

It’s too late for me; someone’s gotta save my kid - The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money by Ron Lieber

“The scary beauty of life is that cancer can be around the corner just as a Grammy nomination can be.” - I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro

True crime at its juicy best - Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death by Ann Rule

Dead People Aren’t Supposed to Walk Around - Grave Ransom by Kalayna Price

I WANT TO PUNCH THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK IN THE TEETH. - In The Woods by Tana French

Some People Will Do Anything to Become Famous - Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann

Basic Happiness Advice Worth Hearing Again - What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the Better by Dan Baker. Cameron Smith

“Holding the leaf inches away from the fire, I repeated the words that my family had been taught since basically the beginning of time: ‘My name is my self, and I give them both freely…'” - Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar

A courtesan with amnesia - Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas

What if Pride & Prejudice was set in modern-day Texas? - The Season by Jonah Lisa Dyer and Stephen Dyer

According to Amazon reviews, I’m in the minority regarding this book - The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton

She would listen in silence, if not quite in agreement - the puzzleheaded girl: four novellas by christina stead

Sitting on a French Bench - Adam Haberberg by Yasmina Reza

Breezy as the title implies - The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven

A Promising New Author – Romance Edition - The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turner Series #1) by Cat Sebastian

Somewhat United Themes - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Superhero Renaissance Faire - 1602 by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard Isanove, Scott McKowen

It’s not always the scariest to listen while walking in the woods, but… - Nightmare at 20,000 by Richard Matheson

The Duke & The Con Artist - From Duke til Dawn by Eva Leigh

So long and thanks for all the Fitz - Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb

How does it hold up? – A Review of the Myth of the Paperless Office or The Piles of Docs in My Smartphone Aren’t the Same as the Piles on my desk. - The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail J. Sellen and Richard H.R. Harper

Oh, $#@! – Translated From Skrull - Deadpool Vol. 1: Secret Invasion by Daniel Way, Steve Dillon, Carlo Barbieri, Paco Medina

“The problem is that Scientology is a system that makes it nearly impossible for you to think for yourself. “ - Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer

“It’s so much easier to accept your feminine role in this world if you don’t struggle.” - Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill

Kitfeather Book Club Part 1 - Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney

A small book on authors and friendship - Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard

When God Gets Lost in Translation - The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner

The Least Thriller, Thriller - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

A Whole Bunch of Truman Capote - The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Cozy Cotswolds - Agatha Raisin Mysteries, Books 1-5 by MC Beaton

Clones in Space - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Fangirl Down, Eleanor & Park to Go (Eventually) - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Eh. - The Dresden Files: Wild Card, The Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin by Jim Butcher, Carlos Gomez, Mark Powers, Joe Cooper

Who Guards the Guardians (they do, of course) - Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka

A well written disappointment - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Little House on the Prairie meets the Oregon trail - Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

The blurbs over-blurbed it. - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

An interesting book about books that move us. - The Things That Matter by Edward Mendelsohn

A Classic Game, if not a Classic Mystery - A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

I Swoop in Like an Ethically Diverse Knight - Spider-Man and Deadpool Vol 1: Isn't It Bromantic by Joe Kelly, Ed McGuiness

The movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is better - Mr and Mr Smith by HelenKay Dimon

Lies, amnesia, missing persons and the revolutionary war - The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

It’s true that they don’t make good romantic comedies anymore - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

Activism 101 - Becoming a Citizen Activist by Nick Licata

Comes in threes - Marrow Island by Alexis M Smith

Concluding an odd space trilogy with some home-cooked sexism - That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

A more repetitive entry in the series. - The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

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  • Mary Benedict
    on Maybe not all things need to be published
    It was wrong to publish that stuff regardless. I seriously doubt it was with AR's consent and if it was,...
  • esmemoria
    on Painfully Unfunny
    You got that right!
  • BlackRaven
    on Painfully Unfunny
    Sounds like this book was 167 pages too long
  • BlackRaven
    on The Joke’s On You
    Sounds like The Stench was all the title needed
  • esmemoria
    on The Joke’s On You
    Practically every sentence is a joke omg, I recently finished a book like this. Hated it.
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