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

Uncle Daniel - The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty

Of these were the Ralstons - The Old Maid by Edith Wharton

The history of American spooks - Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

Why on earth are you there, when you’re everywhere? - The Shining by Stephen King

Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call - Hookah (Insanity Book 4) by Cameron Jace

In which Scots are comic relief and snow is the most effective matchmaker - The Lady Most Willing by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway

Terrifically Beguiling - The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill

Another Little Girl had come into the World - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Everyone’s Life Looks Great on Instagram - The Memory Watcher by Minka Kent

A LITERARY GONE GIRL!!! (Just kidding) - A Separation by Katie Kitamura

Intersectional Science Fiction - Ascension: A Tangled Axon Novel by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill

Promising new (to me) author - Tycoon by Joanna Shupe

I Ended Up Missing Futurama - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Look it’s not Mad Max even if people say it is - The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

And Other Stories is right - The Wide Net and Other Stories by Eudora Welty

The Puppy That Eats Your Favourite Shoes - Good Boy by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy

Cursed Chattans - The Scottish Witch, The Devil's Heart by Cathy Maxwell

A Whole Bunch of Bones - Bones of Contention, Bet Your Bones, Bonereapers by Jeanne Matthews

Doyle Meets His Match - The Forbidden Rose by Joanna Bourne

Watson and Holmes Sitting in a Tree? Maybe…Maybe not. - The Last of August (a Charlotte Holmes novel #2) by Brittany Cavallaro

Underwhelming - The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Squirrels as Superheroes Makes for Nut Puns Galore - The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power by Ryan North and Erica Henderson

Didn’t hate this one, so at least there’s that. - Agent of Chaos (The X-Files: Origins, #1) by Kami Garcia

Middle Books are Hard - Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

There’s gotta be a Game of Thrones joke here somewhere - Winter by Marissa Meyer

A fairy tale about salad as heroine - Cress by Marissa Meyer

He Smelled Like an Expensive Forest - Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas

The Fat Girl Code of Conduct - The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.” - Wool (Wool #1) by Hugh Howey

“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.” - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson

Fear the Data - The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver

A healthy dose of indifference and melancholy - We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Historian by Shirley Jackson and Elizabeth Kostova

“You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!” - Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

An incredibly confusing book - The Devourers by Indra Das

The Single Life and Confirmation as to Why I don’t Miss It. Also Sports! - The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger

Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall. And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall… - Figment (Insanity Book 2) & Circus (Insanity Book 3) by Cameron Jace

All’s Fair in War and Science - The Vital Abyss by James S.A. Corey

The Book of Things I Like to Eat: Reviewing Anthony Bourdain’s Appetites - Anthony Bourdain's Appetites by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever

The Hanging Man - The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver

What’s in the Box? - The Black Box by Michael Connelly

Pretty Solid - Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

Worth the Read - Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

The continuing adventures of the freakishly beautiful supernaturals - Archangel's Heart by Nalini Singh

A Case Where the Book and Movie have *VASTLY* Different Plots - Moonraker by Ian Fleming, read by Bill Nighy

“Contains elections, confections, and a number of erections.” - Sweet Disorder (Lively St. Lemeston #1) by Rose Lerner

Bosch is an Ass in 9 Dragons - Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly

I don’t want to review this book. - Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney

Book 2: Malazan Book of the Fallen - Deadhouse Gates by Stephen Erikson

Bite Me - Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill

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