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

The Father Who Stepped Up, Then Stepped Aside - Whistler by Ann Patchett

Do you know the Muffin Man? Well it won’t matter after Godzilla gets done with the fairy tale village! - Godzilla Stomp! by Katherine Locke and Nikolas Ilic

Locker Room Talk - The Game by Ken Dryden

Colonies, Cults and Crimes - The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton

Technically Not A Mystery, But I’ll Allow It - Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen

Well gosh darn, dang it all to heck - Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Who’s to Blame? - Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

A minority opinion: This book is fine - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

A promising debut cozy fantasy romance that didn’t quite fully hit. - Letters from the Last Apothecary by Bita Behzadi

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna - A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

For Pride Month and any month - Guinea Pigs Don't Wear Pants by Chris Paul Rainbows Farias

A River Red with Blood by John Connolly - A River Red with Blood by John Connolly

Loner Gardener and Extroverted (former) Librarian Get Feelings. That’s mostly it. - The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

Talking cats are fun but give the dragon somethign to do as well - Warriorborn: A Cinder Spires Novella by Jim Butcher

Beary cute story - A Bear Belongs: A Wildlife Rescue Story by Catherine Barr and Harriet Hobday

Diary of a Mad Tradwife - Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Comforting message but … (it’s definitely me, not you, novellas) - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers; A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

I don’t think I’d want to be trapped in a giant empanada - Shrunkation by Janine Amesta

“Anybody who spends a lot of time burrowing through primary records of the old South is going to find almost anything they can imagine & more than a little that they never imagined.” - A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South by Melvin Patrick Ely

On the Trail of Murderous Magic - The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter

Not for me - Burn Book by Kara Swisher

“Men will literally go on a quest to find a dragon than talk about their feelings” - Bromantasy by Máire Roche

Spaceship Coming of Age - PartnerShip by Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

Ambivalence - The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

Where Do the Rights of the Mother and the Rights of the Child Diverge? - Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of A Childhood Online by Fortesa Latifi

“It figured that she’d avoided getting nagged to go to law school, only to get nagged to become a vessel for the dead.” - Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.” - The Stranger by Albert Camus

Maybe I’m not capable of forgiving and forgetting - Here's Looking At You by Mhairi McFarlane

Quilt of love - A Language of Stitches: The Radical Quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins by Constance Moore

Green up Friend up - The Greenies V01 by Emma Mills and Sarah Nicole Kennedy

Superheroes to the…. rescue? - Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine

Cozy mystery, Singapore style - Aunty Lee's Delights (Singaporean Mystery #1) by Ovidia Yu

Verity - Verity by Colleen Hoover

Accept the things you cannot change or change the things you cannot accept? - The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

- Tadek and the Princess (Mahisti Dynasty #1.5) by Alexandra Rowland

Past and Future and Side stories - The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

You can’t be cool with a bowl cut…. or can you? - Don't Cause Trouble by Arree Chung

Wanted: All types of brains - All Brains Welcome: Embracing ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, and More by Johanna Peyton and Olga Popova

Middle-grade picture book - Finding My Spark by Isabelle Jameson, Ann Marie Boulanger and Sylvain Cabot

One thread to connect them all - One Red Thread: A Story of Connection by Lindsay Ward

Honestly, I didn’t even know virologist was a word, let alone how bada$$ they can be! - June Almeida, Virus Detective!: The Woman Who Discovered the First Human Coronavirus by Suzanne Slade and Elisa Paganelli

And I didn’t even mention it felt like it was book two to start with. - Silver Vessels by Steve Orlando

There once was a ship with an old gal and a dog - Whale, That Was Unexpeted by Casey Lyall

This book is out now, so lucky you! You don’t have to wait. - The Endless Game by J.D. Amato and Sophie Morse

Where else can you find an alphabet book with Deceitful in it? - The Flip-Flop Alphabet: A Book of Word Choices book by Duopress Labs, Nathaniel Eckstrom

Life, love and rock climbing - Kirby's Lessons for Falling [in Love] by Laura Gao

read while waiting in a queue for a pop-up and the time went by quickly so v much win - The Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery

“Except, in this fairy tale, the maiden has blood on her hands.” - One Dark Window: Book One of the Shepherd King by Rachel Gillig

The Dead Room by Catriona McPherson - The Dead Room by Catriona McPherson

Be Gay Do Crime - Be Gay Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos by Molly Llewellyn (editor), Kristel Buckley (editor)

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    I loved the book
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    on Let me tell you about your case, little girl
    Appreciating the author's perspectives is a good way to think about this book. (And there really isn't anything to complain...
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    on Let me tell you about your case, little girl
    By the sounds of it, if this book ended up on my holds list, I wouldn't complain; sounds like the...
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    on Lectures, Research Papers and Romance
    As Jonah would put it, “Relatable Content.”
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