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

Good Book That’s Not Quite For Me - Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Enjoyable read, in spite of being the weakest in the series - A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

Stoic self-help book - The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

Home Is a Lonely, Wind-Lashed Isle - The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford

Not a bad ending but a little uneven with the science and the story - Cells at Work! vol. 6 by Akane Shimizu

Give me space! - Eight Short Science Fiction Stories by Ray Bradbury

The Public World and the Private Domain - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed

“Books have a soul” - The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Travel Back to 2004 - Never Tell by Selena Montgomery

“I still knew I was going to keep my lion and train him.” - Here, Keller -- Train This by George Keller

It’s Nutcracker Season, Y’all - The Turnout by Megan Abbott

Should I give my frog a mug of hot chocolate too? - Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate? How Animals Keep Warm by Etta Kaner

You are what you eat and more - Tomatoes in My Lunchbox by Costantia Manoli

I’m Team Glue, but I see the Importance of Glitter - When Glitter Met Glue (When Pencil Met Eraser) by Karen Kilpatrick

“It’s Not My Place to Patrol Your Life:” Queer SF Romance Strikes Again - Curveball by Jeremy Sorese

I wish I may, I wish I might, have a friend to play with tonight - The Witchling’s Wish by Lu Fraser

Beware of Bored Women! - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov

Half-baked fantasy, over-baked drama. - The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1) by Olivie Blake

She might be slow, but she will (eventually) solve the crime! - Sloth Slueth by Cyndi Marko

“Stranger than fiction – certainly more outsized, surreal and outrageous than anything you’d expect to encounter” - Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

“If You’re Not Happy, Maybe Ask Yourself If It’s Worth It” - Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia

Old fashion feel to a book of today - Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes

So Glad I Didn’t Die Before I Met You - Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Riverdale meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off meets Ted Lasso - You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus

Two books about the brain (kinda) - Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains by Helen Thomson; This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe

Reminded Me Why I’m Not Into the Beatniks - Beatnik Buenos Aires by Diego Arandojo

Midwestern High End but how Representational Is it? - Dishing Up Minnesota by Teresa Marrone

“It was difficult to have an opinion when his antagonist kept breaking the rules of reality.” - Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard

Embers Burn Out - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir; A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir; A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir; A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

Cool cover, repetitive plot - Of Mates & Magic by Maggie Francis

Sprawling, impressive, and oddly hollow - Everfair by Nisi Shawl

“I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.” - Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” - The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3) by Deborah Harkness

Don’t give up the ghost - Sheets V01 by Brenna Thummler

No Country For Grieving Mothers - Stolen by Tess Stimson

“Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.” - A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab

Are Giants Scarier than Climate Change? - Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

“I liked maps that didn’t lead to destinations. I was all about the journey, refusing to give intense thought as to where it would trap me.” - Bad Luck Bridesmaid by Alison Rose Greenberg

Petticoat Government - Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane

If a certain two movies were combined with a certain novel this is what you’d get - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Tool of War - Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi

Them - Them by Jon Ronson

Fanning Out - Fan Club by Erin Mayer

Be the Hero - The Mythics #4: Global Chaos by Patrick Sobral and Patricia Lyfoung

A pleasant but rambling (and jarring) journey - Where the Dear and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

What a fall from greatness… - Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

Revelator: Sometimes God is One of Us - Revelator: A Novel by Daryl Gregory

More Than A Body - Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend by Christina Rice

Growing up Absurd - Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman

“In the stories, there was a sense of justice. Everything had a purpose…I thought if those heroes and heroines from the stories could keep going forward into the darkness, so could I.” - Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson

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