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

It’s True What They Say, Middle Books Get Ignored - The Icebound Land by John Flanagan

“What’s so wrong with me?” she whispered. - A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean

I accept that I am a writing-craft snob - Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Chaos Club Reigns Supreme - Don't Get Caught by Kurt Dinan

Sarcastic Kids are Good Kids - Crime Biters by Tommy Greenwald

I don’t know if I liked the book or not, but I’d definitely see the movie. - The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

I Hate Writing Titles - The Drafter by Kim Harrison

I’ll probably end up being the a-hole who likes the TV show better. - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

A Young Man, a Castle & a Very Deep Hole - Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt

Being David Mitchell (the one that didn’t write Cloud Atlas) - Back Story by David Mitchell

Cross-Dressing Lesbians aren’t as much fun when there isn’t any magic - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Gone without a trace - Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

More like “Shrug” - Deep by Kylie Scott

Woman Keeps Shopping and is Surprised at Debt - Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella

Oh, Jojo, I just can’t quit you - Paris for One and Other Stories by Jojo Moyes

About Last Night to Zombieland - The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor by Robert Schnakenberg

Better than my first novel would be - Artistic License by Elle Pierson

Death by Eyeball - Original Sin by Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Jason Aaron, Javier Pulido, Jim Cheung, Mike Deodato,

“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.” - My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

Sequel Does Not Work as Well as the First Book In Series - Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts

This review is about the books you should read instead. But also maybe read this one too. - Goldenhand by Garth Nix

I really liked some of this book and I absolutely despised some of this book. But sure, I’ll read the next one. - The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Decent, Reliable Romance - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James

Close encounters - Armada by Ernest Cline

I’ve Got Friends in High Places - The Two Faces of Tomorrow by James R. Hogan

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

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