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

Mary Roach is a never ending delight, but this was not my book. - Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Confusing Isn’t Always Better - The Drafter (Peri Reed Chronicles Book 1 by Kim Harrison

“She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books.” - The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman

And call Alice, when she was just small…when the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go - Wonder (Insanity Book 5) by Cameron Jace

Yeah, I Know About the Apocalypse: I Watched at Least 5 Seasons of Supernatural… - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

What We Become is Old - What We Become by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Intellectually interesting, not so much enjoyable for me. - The Devourers by Indra Das

Mmm Hmm - Aha: The Moments of Insight That Shape Our World by William B. Irvine

Strangers in the Night - Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase

Suddenly I’m that lady who talks about mystic aliens and stuff on subway. - Childhood's end by Arthur C. Clarke

The Kind of Stuff They Don’t Teach You About At Church - The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South by Patrick Q. Mason

Does a unique premise outweigh a flat story? - Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst

Too much dry travel writing, not enough DRAGONS for my taste - A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan

Where No Star Trek Fan May Have Gone Before … - Star Trek: The Classic UK Comics, Vol. 2 by Dean Mullaney, Editor

Aschenbach did not care for pleasure. - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Another lukewarm Sherlock Holmes adventure - The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Stephen Fry

Next time, more history less theory, please - Blackout, All Clear by Connie Willis

My least favourite book of the entire series - A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

I’m not fat, I’m a bigger breed. - I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano

He’d spent time rehearsing this serene pose - Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe

Too much time messing around with the circus - The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan

Not Enough Industrial Magic - Brother's Ruin by Emma Newman

Another tale of woe about a girl. . . - The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney ( Tony Strong )

A Western that didn’t grab me in the saddle. - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt

A novel, if predictable science-fiction adventure - The Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

What else is there for me, if not this book? - I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane

Manic Pixie Dream Lady - Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas

Book 2 in Newsflesh - Deadline (Newsflesh #2) by Mira Grant

Countless alternate dimensions, one very special teenager - A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

You just met your arch-nemesis….and lost. - Faith Vol 1: Hollywood and Vine and Vol 2: California Scheming by Jody Houser

Flerken Cat - Captain Marvel vol 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More and Vol 2: Stay Fly by Kelly Sue Deconnick

“I never so no miracle of science that didn’t always end of up as something worse.” - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

In which everyone gets the clap - City of Sin: by Catharine Arnold

Evil Stone of DOOOOOOOM - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

I Wasn’t As Attached As I Wanted to be…but as I wrote the review, I found that I was - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Another Guilty Pleasure Book - The Devil's Submission by Nicola Davidson

Sweet, if rather self-congratulatory - I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda

An Egyptian Road Trip - The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway

Did you know that wolves and vampires don’t like cottage cheese? It is neither cheesy nor tasty. - Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop

Earth based aka no astronauts really - Earth Bound by Emma Barry & Genevieve Turner

The Bear and the Nightingale – a Russian fairytale - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Governess is a Lady - Seven Minutes in Heaven by Eloisa James

Rounding out some character development for the series - Round Midnight by Emma Barry & Genevieve Turner

A crash course in quidditch - Quidditch through the Ages by J.K. Rowling

The Circle – delving into a not-so-much-dystopian future? - The Circle by Dave Eggers

As they had accepted fate without thinking about it, so they clung now to the empty hours that were left over from life. - The Sheltered Life by Ellen Glasgow

Skip the book, watch season one, then skip the rest of True Blood - Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Pirriwee Public School holds a killer Trivia Night Fundraiser - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Bete Snore - Bete by Adam Roberts

Surreal (Other than Dali) Is Not for Me - After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

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