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

‘Sup, Jessica Fletcher? - Murder on the Orient Express: by Agatha Christie

Tomorrow all his youth, his Russia, was coming back to him again. - Mary by Vladimir Nabokov

Hello darkness, my old friend - White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

Pretty writing hides a lot… - Saturday by Ian McEwan

You’re going to be hearing more about this one - The Leavers by Lisa Ko

Early Stories - The Geranium and other stories by Flannery O'Connor

Sleeping Giants or I Wish This was The Iron Giant Instead by Sylvain Neuvel - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

Strays - Astray by Emma Donoghue

Ladies Who Paint - The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

… but don’t stop too long there, Ferris - Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman

Grim, with a side of bleak - Broken Harbor by Tana French

Pleasant but forgettable - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

Mmmmmm. Butter chicken. - The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: A Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin Hall

I liked the bits with the horses - The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes

A Cannonball and a Book Club Review - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman

You could do worse than this fictionalized primer on the War of the Roses - The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Cold-blooded and hard-boiled - The Chill by Ross Macdonald

I May Have Reached The End of Personal Growth - Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN

The last Carrie Fisher. Sadly, it’s not the best Carrie Fisher. - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The book that ate up April. - The Cider House Rules by John Irving

A play about a hard topic to speak about. - Ruined by Lynn Nottage

An interesting, dense, if plot-heavy sci-fi techy novel - Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

For a legendary assassin, she spends a whole lot of time NOT killing people - Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Fine Weekend Entertainment - There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone

Five novellas smooshed together. Still not sure about this author or this series. - Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass #0.1-0.5) by Sarah J. Maas

Too long, too slow, and Fitz is a butt. - Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3) by Robin Hobb

And a being of horror came forth to my view - Grave Visions by Kalayna Price

Unseeing things - The City & The City by China Mieville

Only Memories Remain - Grave Memory by Kalayna Price

In which I take another step toward beatific acceptance of my plebian taste - By Blood by Ellen Ullman

Mostly good - The Mother of All Question by Rebecca Solnit

More of that other Alice in Wonderland series I was reading… yeah I forgot about it too! - Phantoms of the North AND The Crocodile's Jaws (Alice in Deadland books 6 and 7) by Mainak Dhar

Never too Short for a Stormtrooper - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

I brought a lot of feelings to this review. - The Mothers by Brit Bennet

Yeah but who wrote the book if…. - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe

“My father had more than fifty children.” - The Polygamist's Daughter by Anna LeBaron

The Rules Do Not Apply - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

Good. But ugh. - The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Fun Junk with a Hint of Handmaiden - God Save the Queen by Kate Locke

Welcome to Your Tape - Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher

There’s a somebody I’m longing to seeeeeee - Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas

Rebecca Explains it All (In a Good Way!) - Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

“If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.” - The Humans by Matt Haig

Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know…When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead - Family (Insanity book 7) by Cameron Jace

We Slowly Drove – He Knew No Haste - Grave Witch by Kalayna Price

Flights going eastbound are assigned even numbers! - Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel by Patrick Smith

In which I figured out what romance I should write - The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand

How not to get ahead in governessing - Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

National Treasure, Betty White - Here We Go Again: My Life In Television by Betty White

Crappy People, Decent Book - You by Caroline Kepnes

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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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