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

Celebrating Human Computers - Hidden Figures, Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly

Fuck Cancer: The Biography of Our Nemesis - The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

I wish I liked this series more. - The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4) by Daniel Abraham

Crichton falls a little flat - Prey by Michael Crichton

Stars and Rockets and Children/Puppy Plot Moppets - Star Dust by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner

Bowman’s in Space (Alternate title: So many pizza gifs, so little time) - 3001: the final oddyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

A British Action Movie of a Book - Strike Back by Chris Ryan

It’s true — you’re not Mark Ruffalo - Dealbreaker: The Definitive List of Dating Offenses by Dave Horwitz, Marisa Pinson

Five Books In And I’m Meh About This Series - Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

THAT CAKE WAS FOR AFTER THE FUNERAL, NOT FOR YOU. - Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell

“Well, unless I’m sitting atop you, what I weigh is really none of your business.” - Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It by Brittany Gibbons

Another Whyte Wedding Romance - The Bridal Season by Connie Brockway

Haven’t read the original being spoofed, so I missed a lot of jokes - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

No mer-men? Denied! - Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis by Anne Rice

Best Dressed at the Oscars doesn’t always lead to memoir success - Around the Way Girl: A Memoir by Taraji P. Henson

A Sort of Ghost Story - The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Not as Compulsively Suspenseful as I Had Hoped - The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Think 45 is bad? It could be worse… - Caligula by Seutonius

Peony in Love - Peony in Love by Lisa See

Silver and Cold on the Mountain - Quicksilver (The Forensic Geology Series Book 1) by Toni Dwiggins

City of Meh - City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Shooting up Celluloid - Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film by Patton Oswalt

I have no idea what’s happening, but I keep reading! - Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 1) by Margaret Atwood

Small Town Murderers come in Small Batches - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

The Fiercest Enemies, The Closest Friends - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty

This book left me debating whether to give the series a second chance - A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor

A time to plant, a time to reap - Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1) by Octavia E. Butler

Second Coming, Once Removed - Banners of the Sa'yen by B.R. Stateham

Throw to the Anchor - Sign Off (Caught Dead in Wyoming Book 1) by Patricia McLinn

If you’re on a boat with Bono and he wants to sing, you can stay up past your bedtime for once. - The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger

Stockholm Syndrome - The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

More mythology please - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Die Ross! - Banana Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke

But no ship had come, or would come. - Planet of Exile by Ursula K Le Guin

How can you tell the legend from the facts on these worlds that lie so many years away? - Rocannon's World by Ursula K Le Guin

Damn it, Pandora! - The girl with all the gifts by M.R. Carey

The kindle version is only $2.51 right now - My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair, Translated by Carolin Sommer

I don’t know if I got out of this book what I was supposed to…and my head hurts thinking about it. - The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Yes, but what’s the name of the translator? - The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping by Keigo Higashino

Classic second book syndrome. - Windwitch (Witchlands, #2) by Susan Dennard

Iyamisu. That’s all you need to know. - Confessions by Kanae Minato

Really…is is just what it sounds like - Animals Talking in All Caps: It's Just What It Sounds Like by Justin Valmassoi

Read it for the puns, not the recipes - My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut by Hannah Hart

Now I just miss Pamie.com - Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life by Laurie Notaro

Apparently We Can’t All Get Along - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

And His Name That Sat Upon Him Was Death - On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality #1) by Piers Anthony

Where Necromancy isn’t so bad - Sabriel by Garth Nix

Vampires, Gnomes & Dark Angels Oh My! - Biting Cold by Chloe Neill

These are proving to be addictive - Whispers Under Ground & Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

My modern Italian feast experiment - Giada's Kitchen: New Italian Favorites by Giada De Laurentiis

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