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

If you want to keep on swimmin’ you’ll need to take care of the planet first - To Change a Planet by Christina Soontorvat

A nightmare before a 1950s Irish Christmas - Snow by John Banville

If Jane was vain, and Rochester was…sort of the same - Dragonwyck (1945) by Anya Seton

Should I Give in to the Chocolate Hummus? - Vegan in an Instant by Marina Delio

Queer Found Family with a Human Murderbot on a Three Fish Ship in Space - You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo

Notes to Self - Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

It might as well have been a squirrel telling me the story - Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore

The Fervor - The Fervor by Alma Katsu

Three’s Company. Four’s Trouble. It’s All…Messy. - Wahala by Nikki May

Forever Peace - Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

The Secrets of Summer House - The Secrets of Summer House by Rachel Burton

Farewell to the Scoobies - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 12 by Christos Gage, et al.

Everything is Illuminated - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Structure over substance - Long Division by Kiese Laymon

There really were too many bare behinds in this - A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

“Evil isn’t a person,” he said. “It’s not a political group either. Or a religion like some people think. Evil is a force. Like gravity. It acts on all of us. We’re all vulnerable to it.” - What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

Meh Valentine’s Reading - A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A break from the norm, but everything is too rushed - The Magicians: New Class by Lilah Sturges

0 - Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

“I never stopped trying to save you, so don’t you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself.” - A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables #1) by Alix E. Harrow

Competent, Readable Science Fiction - Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson

A little disappointing… - It's Not Me, It's You by Mhairi McFarlane

I guess you could say it left me… Cold? - Cold by Mariko Tamaki

“My fertile years are waning, my chance at love has passed, my cat is my greatest asset” - The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen

This wasn’t for me so not sure how to grade it - Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis

Because I found two new books, I’m writing a three book review - Paper Planes by Jim Helmore; In a Jar by Deborah Marcero; Out of a Jar by Deborah Marcero

“Fighting a one-man war against the twentieth century:” Jane Ridley’s Attempt to Make George V Interesting - George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley

“No one had ever held my hand before. Somehow people in Texoma always needed their hands free. I found it a little hot, a little sweaty, and since we were yoked we had to match our pace. But it made me feel good.” - A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2) by Charlaine Harris

Foley Double Feature – Two books for the plot of one! - The Guest List by Lucy Foley; The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

A feminist view on linguistics - Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

With the One Fox Band - Paul and His Ukulele by Robert Broder

Regardless if they like to dig, dance or jive…. I mean dive… these birds move! - Dig, Dance, Dive: How Birds Move to Survive by Etta Kaner

the frogman cometh - Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

In Defense of Dane, the Boyfriend Who Wouldn’t “Man Up” - Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas

“There are two people inside me and they are at war with each other.” - Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator)

Linguistics Grad Gets Book Deal, Writes About Cults Instead - Cultish by Amanda Montell

An Underdeveloped Look a AI-Human Relationships - Pixels of You by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota, and J.R. Doyle

Not Quite Golden - The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

Somebody’s Home- Yet again, not as good as Rouda’s debut - Somebody's Home by Kaira Rouda

Random Randomness with Random People in Random Places Randomly - A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 by David Sedaris

It might be time for a break - Black Clover vols. 26-27 by Yuki Tabata

A Flying, Glow-in-the-Dark Dinosaur in the Modern Day - Umboi Island by JJ Dupuis

Return to Sender - Bring me Back by BA Paris

A Moody and Mysterious YA Graphic Novel That Also Somewhat Frustrated Me - Fly by Night by Tara O'Connor

“Everyone loved being together and just fangirling over whatever they were reading.” - Meet Cute Club by Jack Harbon

Waif Goodbye - Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus #3) by Ian Rankin

The Keeper of Lost Things kinda loses its way… - The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

Sad about not liking this one - The First Sister by Linden Lewis

The Big Daddy of WW2 Spy Fiction - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Wild Ride - Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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    on “I’d looked into the face of death. I’d mistaken him for a friend.”
    The apartment is highly aspirational for sure. Great review!
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    Fully agree about Angel.
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