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

Leonora, Humphrey, James, Phoebe, and Ned - The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym

The perfect poolside summer smut. - The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh

Michael Bay would hate this book - Spring Tide by Cilla and Rolf Börjlund

Igor, This Isn’t Ketchup, Is It? - These Vampires Still Don't Sparkle by Carol Hightshoe, Editor

“I wish for the thing that is best for me.” - Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Little Trouble Girl - Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

A Theory of Creativity, Teaching, the Universe and Everything - inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity by Tina Seelig

A YA novel about death and first love - If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Chicago Noir-ish - Peerless Detective by Michael Raleigh

Relentless badness, with some boats - Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

Ugh, this could have been so.much.better. - The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy

On Child Abuse and Redemption - God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

He didn’t want the magic to go away - Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes by Per Petterson

Skip the novella but read the short story - Mile 81/The Dune by Stephen King

The bloody alt-history begun in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” continues… - The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith

Manic Pixie Paper Girl - Paper Towns by John Green

A dystopian novel that reads like an epic poem. Not sure that’s a compliment, in this case. - On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

Apparently, the world will be rebuilt with chemistry. Alas for toilets! - The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell

Superhero Noir - Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.

On marriage, betrayal, independence and forgiveness - A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee

A super quick review of an all-time classic, but as manga! - Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice by Stacy King and Po Tse

Starting in the middle makes it hard - Wonder Woman by J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester

My skepticism comes first - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Reading a genre classic for the first time. I have thoughts. - The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan

Post-apocalyptic ice trucker romance. Yup, that’s a thing - Driven by Eve Kenin

Awk-WORD - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Lumberjacking Off - The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells

Everything makes so much sense now - A Lady By Midnight, A Night to Surrender (Spindle Cove #1, #3) by Tessa Dare

This was a weird little book - The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Definitely not a positive image for Florida - Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

A Different Kind of Memoir - Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham

Break a Leg! - Lucky Break by Esther Freud

Like Gone Girl’s Twin, but Slightly Better - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

There’s more in the London underground than you might expect - Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

Endings are the Second Hardest Part (Right After Titles) - Night Film by Marisha Pessl

On Reinvention, or Lying - Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

Keep Your Traitorous Tendrils Off My Impeccable Cravat - Flandry of Terra by Poul Anderson

Will Cersei and Ned Please Leave the Stage? - Game of Thrones and Philosophy by Henry Jacoby

Two novellas and a short story. - Lord John and the Hand of Devils (Lord John Grey, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5) by Diana Gabaldon

Not as good as ‘City of Thieves,’ but still pretty good. - The 25th Hour by David Benioff

Little Sam Likes What She’s Having - A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

Did Jack London secretly write this book? Or Katniss Everdeen? - Survival: The Ultimate Practical Guide to Staying Alive in Extreme Conditions and Emergency Situations by Anthonio Akkerman

An ironic question and a sweeping time period - The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan

The power of imagery and story - Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih

By Your Command: Creative on Command - Creative On Command: Instant Inspiration Exactly When You Need It by Jennifer Blanchard

Really only about 10% of this has to do with the damn painting - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Redeems itself by the end (much like Hook himself) - Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen

Not the best in the Outlander series, but still fun - An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

“The Young Adventurers take a lot of killing.” - Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The Only Moderately Interestings - The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

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