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

Finding Mrs. Right - Downtiming the Night Side by Jack L. Chalker

Beware the Thingummy - A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

All others pay retail - Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe

Where’d You Go, Maria Semple - Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple

A Murder in Vienna - Vienna Waltz by Teresa Grant

I was looking for something different to read today, and this girl-power-filled graphic novel fit the bill. Maybe. - Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Jared K Fletcher, Matthew Wilson

I’m a Survivor, I’m Gonna Make it… - Watching the End of the World by Eric T Knight

The “Geek” part is good. The “Unrequited Love”…not so much - The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash

10% Useful - 10% Happier by Dan Harris

Just because you can write a 1000 page book doesn’t mean you have to… - El laberinto de los espíritus by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

This is the book - this is the water by Yannick Murphy

I was hoping for another Wool. This wasn’t what I was hoping for. - Sand Omnibus by Hugh Howey

Finally brought this one out of the freezer - The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

This one seems better - Deadland: Untold Stories of Alice in Deadland (Alice, No. 5) by Mainak Dahr

Cheese! Cheese! Cheese - The Cheese Chronicles: A Journey Through the Making and Selling of Cheese in America, From Field to Farm to Table by Liz Thorpe

It Happened One… Wait, What Happened? Oh, Heck, I Already Can’t Remember - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

“One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.” - The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 by Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Karen Russell T. C. Boyle, Sofia Samatar, Jo Walton, Cat Rambo Daniel H. Wilson, Seanan McGuire, Jess Row

“She was like milk – too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled.” - Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

We Are Alderaan - Princess Leia by Mark Waid, Terry Dodson

Life’s too short to read stories without well-written female characters - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Maybe if you really like modern fairy tales…? - Nightbird by Alice Hoffman

An Unclear Circus Farewell - Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Well that was darker than expected - Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

Troubled Short Stories about Troubled Romances - Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes

Hold yourself in the palm of your hand - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Teenagers and Demons, Oh My! - City of Bones: Book 1 of the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

A little therapy for the new year - F*ck Feelings by Michael I. Bennett, MD and Sarah Bennett

My embarrassment knows no end - Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren

Dying Is Just A Verb - On Living by Kerry Egan

Another book about slavery that a lot of white people liked. - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The town, not the planet - Dispatches From Pluto by Richard Grant

Two stars for the memoir. Five stars for the moth joke. - Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald

Quotation marks exist for a reason, for the love of God!! - The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

A monstrous planetary romance. - Embassytown by China Miéville

Solid, Mediocre Sports Romance - Rookie Move (Brooklyn Bruisers #1) by Sarina Bowen

As good as a story about vermin can be - King Rat by China Mieville

Pride and Prejudice and Practical Magic - Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle

Coffee-Coffee-Coffee - Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers - Finders Keepers by Stephen King

Cult of Personality - The Girls by Emma Cline

I was warned - First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Do not be a curly-haired blonde in a Kate Atkinson novel - Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

“I’m frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.” - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

This will look good on my trophy necklace. - The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent by Larry Correia

The World Seemed to Burn - Firebug by Lish McBride

You Say Love Story, I Say Are You Sure? - The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

Boulevard of Half-Dead Dreams - Battle Hill Bolero by Daniel José Older

Getting on an airplane soon? Maybe skip this one. - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume

Another *shrug* of a story - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

She throws a boffo cocktail party - Lady Killer by Jamie S. Rich, Joelle Jones

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