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

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

Fascination and Understanding - Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley

If “American Gods” was written by a toddler on Ritalin - Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien

“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win” - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Just Shows that Chivalry Doesn’t Benefit Women - Parzival: Quest of the Grail Knight by Katherine Paterson

Room for improvement - Rooms by Lauren Oliver

“It takes more than trinkets and promises to intrigue me now.” - The Watchmaker's Daughter by C.J. Archer

young women with no voice, can you hear them yelling? - Until Friday Night / Speak by Abbi Glines / Laurie Halse Anderson

The Artist, The House-sitter and The Faberge Eggs - The Collector by Nora Roberts

A Meh Grows in Brooklyn - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Great Characters, Middling Romance - Kulti by Mariana Zapata

I’m not sure about this series - Hunting The Snark: An Alice in Deadland Adventure (Alice, No. 4) by Mainak Dahr

Powered Teenagers That Mess Up, Like Teenagers - Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti

Ashes to Ashes - Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore

God Save the King - The Woman Who Would Be King by Kara Cooney

A Less Enthusiastic Recommendation, But Still a Recommendation - Kulti by Mariana Zapata

Harmless YA fantasy with lots of potential for growth. - Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

Corazon Rebelde - Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

Politics and Poison, Oh My! - Poison by Sara Poole

Scandal, No Not The TV Show - Scandal by Amanda Quick

First Comes a Solid, if Bland Romance - First Comes Marriage by Mary Balogh

All you need to know about this is that Ranger goes to Disney World - Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich

There’s certainly a lot of damned things that happen - Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary Book 1) by Jodi Taylor

Wil Wheaton is a hell of a narrator. - Armada by Ernst Cline

Scooby-Doo Meets Nancy Drew - Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore

Reincarnation meets Groundhog Day…. - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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