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

Not a super fun novel - Real World by Natsuo Kirino

Wade wants to roast marshmallows while all creation burns. - Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe by Cullen Bunn, Dalibor Talajic

An Unreliable Narrator Escapes to Freedom - Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden

Little Jordan, Little Jordan - Little Jordan by Marly Youmans

The Cider House Rules - The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Mortal Engines - Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Wonder Woman: The True Amazon - Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson

Checks the Boxes, But Has A Big Issue - Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned Form Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

Divided we fall - Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

“Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.” - Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

The Loneliest Man on the Planet - Mr. Adam by Pat Frank

“Back at the hotel Lord we got such a mess.” - Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles and so-called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky

Assassination Vacation (literally! I listened to this on vacation) - Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

We need to talk about Peter - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

Claustrophobia: A Study - Disquiet by Julia Leigh

Conflicted. Still, till death. - Rat Queens Volume 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Tess Fowler and Bonvillain

Ask a Manager: The Book - Company by Max Barry

Urban Decay - Blue City by Ross Macdonald

Some Great Essays, But A Couple Not Good Ones - Dying in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well by Lydia Dugdale

Am I out of breath from laughing or running? - How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters by Joel Cohen

Mega Review!! Three pieces of crap, one unremarkable episode, and a nugget of purest green! - Filthy and Rich: A Billionaire Menage Romance Box Set by Multiple Authors, most of whom are crap and Charlotte Stein who is a jewel.

And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

The title makes me want to hate this. - The Museum of Dr. Moses. by Joyce Carol Oates

Americans have a lot of hangups but - Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Another Story in Verse - Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn

My biggest complaint is what makes this book so important - Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings

“Her voice carried the voices of a hundred thousand souls in it; a whole history of resistance and rage moved with her.” - Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper #1) by Daniel José Older

You Mean All This Time, We Could’ve Been Friends? - The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Secrets and lies - Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

“There were human beings and there was Audrey Hepburn.” - Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson

Hello Old Friends - Home by Harlan Coben

Why oh Why - The Bloody Chamber and other stories by Angela Carter

So that’s what happens to… - My Happy Life by Lydia Millet

Proto 90s/Ur-text - How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez

GO AWAY! Go awaaay, you lousy beast! - Tatyana Tolstaya by Sleepwalker in a Fog

I swear I didn’t ctrl-z my Ian McEwan review - The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Life is a series of unlikely events…” - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

“Love is worth everything. Everything.” - Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

From an embattled son to a genocidal conqueror - Birth of an Empire and Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden

Memoirs! - Grace Notes: My Recollections + 5 more titles by Katey Sagal + 5 other people

“How waste everything looks when ye can’t fix a name to it” - O Beulah Land by Mary Lee Settle

Left Behind in a Shack to eat Chicken Soup with Kirk Cameron. Jesus. - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

“Motherhood is hard. And you young moms put more pressure on yourselves than we ever did with your crafts and activities. Do you know what we called crafts back in the day? Chores.” - Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

Not Firefly - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Midwestern Magical - Cowgirls in Space & What Makes a River by Deborah Coates

Am I the only species in creation that doesn’t thrive on conflict? - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Sherlock Holmes meets *insert your favorite fantasy story* here - Jackaby by William Ritter

Macho, Macho Man: Eric Braeden - I'll Be Damned by Eric Braeden

Dr. Bennet Omalu vs. NFL - Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nun assassins. I repeat, nun assassins. - Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

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Recent Comments

  • 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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